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How balancing technology and people can elevate employee satisfaction

The pandemic has forever changed the workplace, especially for my support and product success team at ServiceNow. One thing that hasn’t changed is our commitment to operational excellence, which starts with a great employee experience. My goal is to improve employee satisfaction for our technical support engineers (TSEs). If our TSEs are satisfied, then our customers reap the benefits. When TSEs feel valued and appreciated, they build greater trust with customers.

The future of work paves a new path to customer obsession

he accelerated digital transformation we've witnessed since the beginning of the pandemic has provided plenty of people-centric opportunities, especially as we automate mundane tasks. All of the innovations that shook the industry—the advent of robotics and automation, the collection of employee data to build user behavior baselines, and the shift in power from employers to employees—have driven us to a place we used to call the future of work, which is here now.

Application Control for Windows

Application Control for Windows combines dynamic allowed and denied lists with privilege management to prevent unauthorized code execution without making IT manage extensive lists manually and without constraining users. Automated requests and approvals via Service Desk systems lighten the load for IT staff while providing users a streamlined experience.

What it's like to work on a Now Platform release

In our quest to make the world work better for everyone, ServiceNow updates the Now Platform every six months. To pull that off, we’re constantly working on many innovations. Our latest Tokyo release introduced scores of new solutions and modules to boost productivity, accelerate value, and ramp up organizational trust. Bringing those innovations together and ensuring they’re aligned with customer needs is a mindful and purpose-driven undertaking.

How to Simplify Asset Audits with the help of the Asset Auditing Mobile Application?

Asset auditing is usually a long procedure especially when an organization has lots of assets. It becomes more hectic when you know some assets such as vehicles are in different locations and some vehicles are out making deliveries to clients. That is why it is important to plan asset audits in a way so that you have assets available at the time of audit. However, it is not simple as it seems that is why auditing is a complicated procedure!

To Thrive in the Everywhere Workplace, IT and Security Teams Need to Work Together

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. For a CIO, this is like the holidays, and there’s lots to celebrate and lots to do. By reading this, you’re helping me check something off my list: I want everyone in the IT and security landscape to know how these two teams can work together for a more efficient, productive and secure enterprise. To those outside the departments, IT and security teams are often conflated.

Why Understanding and Reducing Technical Debt Matters

Technical debt is a term that comes up frequently in IT organizations—whether to characterize software development, tech stack, or infrastructure. For instance, does your organization have operating systems that you keep around because they have legacy code or support an application critical to your operations, but whose vendor is long out of business? Maintaining legacy systems can be considered a form of technical debt.

Simplifying Asset Management in multiple locations with the help of Asset Management Software

Every enterprise needs to look at the assets to supervise and see which ones are available for allotment and which one need to be managed, all this is done for better results throughout the enterprise. Management of these assets has a direct relationship with the growth of any enterprise. It is very important to keep a good track of all the vital information of the asset.

October Cumulative Update for the Alloy ITSM/ITAM Platform

Alloy Software released a new cumulative update to the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform. This update (2022.1.1) includes quality improvements, improves stability, and resolves a number of issues reported in earlier versions. The update involves Alloy Navigator Enterprise, Alloy Navigator Express, and Alloy Discovery Enterprise.