Very well said!

They say captain is as good as his team, well, your IT is as good as people who 
run it :)

-Raj

From: Pierson, Shawn-3 [via ARS (Action Request System)] 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 18:52
To: Hiremath, Rajashekhar
Subject: Re: BMC should have made upgrades easier - Customers loosing interests

With BMC having a much larger market share that's to be expected though isn't 
it?  Also, the companies I've seen that go BMC -> SNOW generally follow a 
pattern like this:

1) Company is on an old version of ARS with custom apps and an understaffed 
development team.
2) Company decides to try the latest release of BMC's ITSM, don't train their 
team or replace them with experienced ITSM administrators.
3) They get ITSM into production after a lot of pain and agony, with the ARS 
developer being unable to adapt to working with ITSM, and the owners of the 
ITSM processes not having an understanding of ITIL.
4) Service Now comes along with a canned sales script that exploits knowledge 
of the preceding failure and promises to make everything better, and makes an 
easy sale.

What happens next varies, because some people are happy with SNOW and stick 
with it.  In the scenario above, it's dangerous for SNOW as well because most 
likely they get rid of their Remedy resource who was probably the closest 
person to understanding the concepts of IT Service Management, or they try to 
put them on SNOW without proper training and guidance from an experienced SNOW 
consultant and while it works for a while, they are unable to do as much with 
it as the sales person promised.  As a result, they're just as likely to get 
upset at Service Now because things aren't magically happening perfectly after 
they spent all sorts of money and failed to deliver a second time.

What ITSM software vendors don't usually tell you is that software is tertiary. 
 If you have good processes and competent, experienced, well trained people 
first you could probably do ITSM with an Access database.  If you have bad 
processes, or incompetent, untrained staff, you could spend millions on an ITSM 
solution and it still won't work.  I've seen companies flail around going from 
custom ARS applications to SNOW to ITSM and still look for something new to go 
to because it's a lot easier to replace software than fix processes or educate 
and properly place your staff.  Nowhere that I've worked, mind you, but it does 
happen.  :-)

Thanks,

Shawn Pierson
Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer

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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:52 AM
To: [hidden email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=116108&i=1>
Subject: Re: BMC should have made upgrades easier - Customers loosing interests

There aren't many moving from snow to bmc. It's more common the other way 
around.

Kind regards.

Stephen Leith

> On 10 Mar 2014, at 20:32, "James Smith" <[hidden 
> email]</user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=116108&i=2>> wrote:
>
> I have seen the service now UI, they have everything on singe UI say user 
> access, import and export, workflow development. UI is mot attractive and its 
> very clumsy.
>
> Its very though for the non programmers to develop workflows or do 
> customizations as at some point you need to know java scripting.
>
> In remedy, customizations and integrations are very simple. You have a great 
> tool (Developer Studio) to do all customizations which is pretty cool and I 
> like it.
>
> But as I said customers dnt see this. As per the last two posts from shown 
> and jejus, it seems that upgrades are failing due to lack of knowlege of the 
> person doing things.
>
> I am eager to hear the stories of client who moved from SNow to Remedy.
>
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