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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 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

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.

July 2023
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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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