How to manage content in ServiceNow CMDB/CSDM?

Populating and maintaining an accurate Configuration Management Database (CMDB), aligned with ServiceNow’s Common Service Data Model (CSDM), is a significant challenge for most enterprises. This guide outlines how to do it right, what types of items should (and should not) [...]

By Jeroen van Craaikamp · 31 July 2025 Read More

Going overboard with CSDM 5?

ServiceNow published a PowerPoint presentation with 132 slides with examples on how one could model the IT landscape accormodeoding to CSDM 5. Although I generally love CSDM, some appear to go overboard when modelling their IT landscape in ServiceNow. Let's [...]

By Jeroen van Craaikamp · 7 June 2025 Read More

25 AI Support Agent Conversation Examples

AI Support Agent Conversation Playbook – Multilingual IT Support via Microsoft Teams Overview This playbook provides 25 conversation examples for a multilingual AI agent that supports users via Microsoft Teams across the following IT domains: Each scenario includes a typical [...]

By Jeroen van Craaikamp · 1 June 2025 Read More

Best Practices for CSDM 5

So, you have read the CSDM 5, and you have a general idea. However, there are numerous open questions and choices . This article describes the Practices that i recommend for what (not) to model in ServiceNow. Applying these recommendations [...]

By Jeroen van Craaikamp · 1 June 2025 Read More

Aligning APM, DPM, SCM, AI and CMDB

Each IT management framework has its distinct definitions, glossaries, and fanbase. And guess what? These often don't align or match with each other. Initially people differentiated between software and hardware. With the advent of massive Outsourcing, Cloud Services, and APIs, [...]

By Jeroen van Craaikamp · 31 May 2025 Read More

Enterprise Service Mngt (ESM) Capabilities?

Agentic AI itself does not employ a hard-coded process flow; instead, it reasons and determines its next steps/actions based on real-time triggers, responses, data, and events. This makes Agentic AI for the Enterprise less predictable but more flexible and capable [...]

By Jeroen van Craaikamp · 29 May 2025 Read More
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