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Thinking, guides and real delivery stories.

Practical writing on service management — what works, what doesn't, and what we've learned delivering ServiceNow and Halo for teams like yours.

Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Service Level Agreements in HaloITSM

Everyone thinks the SLA lives on the SLA record. This one HaloITSM screen decides what a response is, when the clock restarts, what happens while a ticket waits on the user, and who gets escalated after hours.

September 2026
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Asset Management in HaloITSM

Ten settings on one HaloITSM screen decide whether your CMDB is a record or a rumour: how an asset gets its tag, who can see it, and what an import does when it arrives claiming to be it.

September 2026
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Reporting in HaloITSM

The HaloITSM Reporting general settings screen decides which dashboard the team opens on, which exports agents can take, and who can reach which reports. Ten settings, in order, from a live instance.

September 2026
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Article
Halo

Halo Tab: multitasking inside a single browser window

Halo Tab lets agents keep tickets, assets and reports open in one browser window. What it does, what it needs, and where it trips people up.

August 2026
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Article
Halo

HaloITSM now warns you before an OLA target is missed

HaloITSM 2.236 adds proactive OLA breach notifications, closing the gap between SLA alerts and silent internal handoff slippage.

August 2026
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Article
Halo

Scheduled Reports to Distribution Lists in HaloITSM and HaloPSA

HaloITSM and HaloPSA v2.236 lets report schedules send to a Distribution List instead of typed addresses. What to set up and what to watch for.

July 2026
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Use Case
ServiceNow

Moving customer support from incident workaround to purpose-built CSM

A UK software company had outgrown using ServiceNow Incidents to manage external customer interactions. Hikon implemented Customer Service Management with proper accounts, contacts and cases — moving from an internal workaround to a purpose-built customer support model.

November 2022
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Use Case
ServiceNow

Migrating a legacy ITSM platform to ServiceNow at a global insurer

A global insurer needed to retire its legacy i3S platform and establish ServiceNow as its single ITSM and CMDB system. Hikon delivered automated discovery across fifteen global data centres, a CSDM-aligned CMDB, full data cleansing, and migration of core ITSM processes.

September 2018
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Use Case
ServiceNow

Connecting service desks across organisational boundaries: eBonding for a managed network provider

A UK managed network services provider needed automated ticket exchange with multiple partners. Hikon delivered a series of bi-directional eBonding integrations that removed manual re-keying and kept incidents synchronised across organisational boundaries.

March 2021
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Service Level Agreements in HaloITSM

Everyone thinks the SLA lives on the SLA record. This one HaloITSM screen decides what a response is, when the clock restarts, what happens while a ticket waits on the user, and who gets escalated after hours.

September 2026
Read more →
Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Asset Management in HaloITSM

Ten settings on one HaloITSM screen decide whether your CMDB is a record or a rumour: how an asset gets its tag, who can see it, and what an import does when it arrives claiming to be it.

September 2026
Read more →
Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Reporting in HaloITSM

The HaloITSM Reporting general settings screen decides which dashboard the team opens on, which exports agents can take, and who can reach which reports. Ten settings, in order, from a live instance.

September 2026
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