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No More Data Loss with Your Integrations

Date: October 23, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

I decided to vote by mail this month. So after requesting an absentee ballot, the website for my state’s election commission showed that they mailed out the ballot on October 9. And then I waited.  And waited – sometimes wondering whether public fears of an overloaded mail system this year might be true. Did the…

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Video: Backup and Restore for ServiceNow Data

Date: September 17, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

Backup and restore are separate processes, each part of larger business practices: risk management and operational resilience. If the unforeseeable happens, and operations are impacted, production quantities of data need to be uploaded in the shortest possible time – because your business can’t get back online without it.

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Build or Buy – 8 Reasons Enterprises Leave Homegrown Integrations

Date: September 10, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

Businesses with strong IT departments often look to a DIY approach for their integrations. Writing your own integrations – or having a consultant do so – can seem like a less expensive way to connect systems. But is it? The custom-built approach can work for smaller, low-volume integrations. But there are a number of reasons…

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How Enterprises Solve Technical and Data Debt

Date: September 4, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

The great thing about ServiceNow is that it’s a powerful and easy-to-use application platform. The not-so-great thing about ServiceNow is that it’s a powerful and easy to use application platform. And as with any such platform that is easy to develop on, citizen developers build onto it. The more time passes, the more they add…

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Achieving a 360-Degree View by Merging Data from ServiceNow and Other Apps

Date: August 25, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

You can get a wealth of information about users, customers, and your company operations through ServiceNow. But just 22% of ServiceNow customers get all the information they need through ServiceNow alone. To get a full view, BI teams and others in the company look to data from sources beyond ServiceNow – call-center, project management, ERP,…

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Video: Don’t Break the Bank – Avoiding Data Debt in ServiceNow

Date: August 20, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

The more your business uses ServiceNow, the more your ServiceNow data volumes grow. Eventually, reports take too long to run. Your tables are growing unseen and uncontrolled, creating a vexing heap of data debt. Perspectium Record Estimator gives you visibility and control over the growth of your ServiceNow instance. You can even create alerts that…

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Perspectium Newsletter – The Message Bus (August 2020)

Date: August 13, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

In This Newsletter . . . Customer Survey Reveals Surprising Results New Record Estimator Application Welcome, New Perspectium Customers Perspectium in the News New Resources for Better Data Automation Upcoming Events We asked ServiceNow customers how they move data and process between other technologies, repositories and third-party service providers. The survey revealed that while the…

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Extracting Data from ServiceNow for Business Intelligence

Date: August 12, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

For full visibility into the business, companies replicate ServiceNow data to a data lake, enabling business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning. At your business, requests for access to that data can come from any number of sources, including company leadership. When you make real-time data available, decision-makers at your business do their jobs better. Why…

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Infographic: Integration vs Automation

Date: August 6, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

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5 Reasons to Consider Real-Time Delivery Over Batch

Date: August 5, 2020
Author: Zak Cole

Businesses have moved data as bulk transfers for several decades. Transferring heavy loads, these batch jobs often call on significant network resources. To avoid impact on performance during the workday, IT teams and architects schedule the data transfers at night. But batch transfers certainly have their limitations. From CIOs to CSRs, personnel want visibility and…

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