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.
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.
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.
From legacy desk to modern ServiceNow platform: a UK financial services firm
A UK financial services firm replaced a legacy service desk with a full ServiceNow implementation: branded portal, structured catalogue, ADFS single sign-on and automated incident creation from monitoring.
Getting HaloITSM live in weeks: our implementation approach
Hikon delivers HaloITSM implementations in weeks, not months. See our proven onboarding process, milestone breakdown, and go-live checklist — trusted by UK organisations.
Why ServiceNow implementations fail — and what structured delivery looks like
The platform is rarely the problem. Five failure patterns we’ve seen across 275+ projects — and the delivery discipline that prevents every one of them.
Five signs your IT team has outgrown its tooling
Workarounds, invisible workload, painful audits — the quiet signals that your service tooling is now costing more than it saves, and what to do without overcorrecting.
Structured client onboarding and deployment through ServiceNow
A software company needed to bring structure to the way it onboarded and deployed its platform for customers. Hikon built a ServiceNow capability using client configuration records, guided order guides and service level definitions to make delivery consistent, trackable and measurable.
A native ServiceNow application for Agile delivery management
Mars is a ServiceNow scoped application built to manage Agile delivery natively on the platform — sprints, use cases, stories, defects and tasks in one place, alongside the ServiceNow work being delivered, with no separate tracking tool required.
Productising ServiceNow: a repeatable delivery model for faster, lower-risk implementations
Working with a technology services business, Hikon helped shape a ServiceNow-as-a-Service delivery model: a repeatable core implementation and delivery strategy that gets customers to a best-practice minimum viable platform fast, with a clear path to expand.
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.
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.
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.
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