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Practical writing on service management — what works, what doesn't, and what we've learned delivering ServiceNow and Halo for teams like yours.
Log Tickets Directly from Asset Records in HaloITSM
HaloITSM v2.236 lets users raise tickets directly from asset records on the Self-Service Portal. What changed and what to set up.
Don’t Let Summer Break Your Approval Process
Halo’s Automatic Approval Delegation feature keeps your approval workflows moving while your team is on holiday — no manual workarounds, no blocked queues.
From Search Engine to Problem Solver: Getting More from Your Service Desk Agents
Most service desk agents spend their day looking things up and bridging systems by hand. Here is how to turn them into problem solvers with knowledge in the ticket, automatic context, automation and problem management, using Halo.
Is CTI dead? What AI means for the oldest habit in ITSM
CTI was never ITIL. A short history of Category, Type, Item, why category trees failed, and how AI turns classification from an input burden into an output artefact.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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