Insights

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 Purchase Orders in HaloITSM, in three parts

One screen, 44 controls, three parts. How purchase orders are raised and sent, how they are handled once goods arrive, and who approves them: 29 settings from HaloITSM’s Configuration > Purchase Orders, where a card may cover a small group of related fields, with the rest covered in the article.

October 2026
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Email in HaloITSM, in two parts

The HaloITSM Email General Settings screen in two parts: how incoming mail becomes tickets, and how outgoing mail is sent, with the twenty settings we check first.

October 2026
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Users General Settings in HaloITSM

Nine settings on one HaloITSM screen decide how an Organisation, Site and User relate to each other, what an agent can create on the fly from a ticket, and what happens when someone leaves or two records turn out to be the same one.

September 2026
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Article
General

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.

May 2026
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Use Case
ServiceNow

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.

April 2024
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Use Case
ServiceNow

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.

June 2020
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Use Case
ServiceNow

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.

February 2025
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Purchase Orders in HaloITSM, in three parts

One screen, 44 controls, three parts. How purchase orders are raised and sent, how they are handled once goods arrive, and who approves them: 29 settings from HaloITSM’s Configuration > Purchase Orders, where a card may cover a small group of related fields, with the rest covered in the article.

October 2026
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Email in HaloITSM, in two parts

The HaloITSM Email General Settings screen in two parts: how incoming mail becomes tickets, and how outgoing mail is sent, with the twenty settings we check first.

October 2026
Read more →
Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Users General Settings in HaloITSM

Nine settings on one HaloITSM screen decide how an Organisation, Site and User relate to each other, what an agent can create on the fly from a ticket, and what happens when someone leaves or two records turn out to be the same one.

September 2026
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