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.

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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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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Article
Halo

The Other Side of ITSM. The One Your Users Actually See.

We talk a lot about the back end of ITSM. But the front end, the portal and the people using it, is where trust is won or lost. A look at ITSM from your end users’ side.

August 2026
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Article
Halo

Halo AI for Service Desk Agents

What Halo AI puts in front of the human service desk agent, what it takes to configure, and where it trips people up.

August 2026
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Article
Halo

Time Tracking and Timesheets in Halo

How time tracking and timesheets work in HaloITSM and HaloPSA, what it takes to configure properly, and the places setups quietly go wrong.

August 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 Knowledge in HaloITSM

The ten settings on Configuration → Knowledge Base that decide whether a HaloITSM article can be trusted: how edits are recorded, how readers push back, and who is allowed to change or share it.

August 2026
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Guide
Halo

HALO IN 60: Configuring Chat in HaloITSM

The ten settings on Configuration → Chat that decide how a HaloITSM chat reaches a human: where the conversation is built, where agents answer, and what happens to a chat nobody came back to.

August 2026
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