Re: Unknown Contact in ITSM

2013-01-11 Thread patchsk
I have done very similar when we saw some users sending emails to submit tickets but they are failing due the user not exist in remedy people profiles. We created a generic account as Unknown User and changed the workflow to use this profile when the users profile was not matched in people

Re: Broadcasts visible by all

2013-01-11 Thread itsm.support
Hi, Broadcast View access - Public or Internal is for multitenant environment. View access depends on company configured for People in the People form View access play no role if environment is single tenant. HTH -- Regards, Rahul Badwaik Vyom Labs Pvt. Ltd. BSM Solutions

Re: All DECIMAL and CURRENCY data has been corrupted in AR Server 8.0.00

2013-01-11 Thread Walters, Mark
For reference the defect number is SW00445945. If you do raise an issue with support please include this. Mark -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Bade, Yogesh Sent: 11 January 2013 07:27 To:

Re: All DECIMAL and CURRENCY data has been corrupted in AR Server 8.0.00

2013-01-11 Thread Hullule, Kiran
Just fyi please.. Misi, we are getting your support case escalated for Hotfix, thank you. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:02 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Multiple email attachments not visible in incident ticket auto generated from email

2013-01-11 Thread Shruti Shah
Hi, The configuration to auto generate tickets from the email engine was done thru RBE. My issue is that I sent an email with 2 .xls files attached; however the incident ticket that was generated in the system shows only 1 .xls file instead of 2. Is there any setting to limit the number of

Re: Upload data from excel sheet to computer system

2013-01-11 Thread laurent matheo
I have a suggestion, don't do it :) We did it for a customer where end users had a console where they could upload csv files to import cis and relations into CMDB and also modify existing assets (status, put it into inventory, stuff like that). It had a very big impact on performances since we

AD: Upload data from excel sheet to computer system

2013-01-11 Thread Ben Chernys
With Meta-Update there is NO temporary for and NO workflow except normal OOTB workflow (when desired). I regularly load data of all sorts and sizes into live systems with no performance effects. Meta-Update will allow you to validate, load other data into memory, etc. You can automatically

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Lisa Kemes
Why do people feel the need to switch to Service Now to begin with? Just curious. Lisa Kemes On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com wrote: All, A little birdie was chirping the other day and I heard something about SNow having an integration or some type of

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread patrick zandi
those people are called managers , and not leaders.. they are bean counters and not leaders... they are narcissistic about making a name for themselves, rather than be content.. and make slow moves ... just because you have a degree, does not mean you are smart... Cecil Lawson: Brilliant man

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Could be the ole grass is greener on the other side bit. For the specific thing that I was talking about, it seems that SNow is making a push to get their foot in the door by offering their service catalog functionality sitting in top of Remedy. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 11, 2013, at 8:53 AM,

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Sylvain YVON
** Their main argument is that SNOW was designed for the modern cloud architectures, as opposed to AR System ITSM which had to adapt. I'm still looking for plain numbers to see how Remedy Force and Remedy On Demand are doing worldwide. By the way, SNOW can be run either as SaaS or on-premise. I

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Lee Cullom
Sylvia, Have a look at this article, it might be of some assistance. It contains the information you've requested. I thought some others might like to see it as well. For additional information, feel free to reach out to me directly.

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
A former colleague who is very knowledgeable with Remedy started working with Service Now a few years back. The last time I heard from him, he seemed to be pretty happy with the capabilities of Service Now. I've not tried it any further than watching demos, but it didn't seem that great to

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Lee Cullom
Tauf, Note: Implementation of ServiceNow's Service Catalog is extremely time-consuming as compared to SRM. It has a great interface for demonstrations, but you might want to consider having a look at this for more detail (see change as a requestable offering in Remedy vs. SNOW):

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread patrick zandi
you mention SSO .. it is weird why they did not continue ARSSSO ... It worked great.. I had it working with the Air Force Research Laboratory Rome NY, It was definitely quirky to setup.. but it never failed.. It used the CAC cards and or userid login and was TRUE SSO.. no security through

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Ken Pritchard
Probably also a cost savings - that seems to be more important in this environment and can outway increases in functionality. I think a lot of companies these days are going away from constant changes to the system towards just set it up for me and let me go - thus reducing the need for an IT

ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread John Baker
Patrick, ARSSO? What's that? If anyone is really interested in learning about the benefits of SNOW, joining a SNOW forum and asking the question may be a good use of some time. I know people who have nothing but good things to say about SNOW even when given the choice of ITSM products: there are

Re: Multiple email attachments not visible in incident ticket auto generated from email

2013-01-11 Thread Peters, Ron
We use the email engine extensively to create incidents (25% of total volume). I had to look up what you meant by RBE but if you mean the formatted field:value message to create incidents, we're on the same page. In any case, our implementation uses the HPD:IncidentInterface_Create form to

Re: ITBM Product Functionality

2013-01-11 Thread Stanley Feinstein
Hi Sachin, (To copy most of what John Sundberg wrote a day or two ago: I mention Project Remedies' products in this post - move along if you don't like that) (If anybody wants to know more -- call me or email me direct.) Since only one other person responded to your request, please let me

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread John Sundberg
I agree with this. I do think it is grass is greener Aggressive sales. Other than that -- not really a benefit - if you ask me. Distaste -- sometimes companies just get upset with a BMC position or salesperson - and choose to leave because of personal grudge. New CIO comes in -- and why

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Rackley, James
I will grant your point about the Service Catalog for SNOW being time-consuming with the caveat that all new-to-the-user products have a learning curve (I'm looking at you Windows 8). However, with only the SNOW online documentation, I was able to create a basic service in 15 minutes. A

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
Like this person said - cost of the product itself. Sometimes a short term vision for short term gains can lead to long term losses. Then again it could be lack of funding itself. With the economy that is perhaps barely recovering, I would think that is more of a reason than a lack of vision of

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
But sometimes it's good to differentiate between cost and investment. Not all changes can be classified as costs. If the money is spent right, it could well be an investment. And sure investments do not usually come in cheap. You got to weigh the returns. Its this lack of visibility of returns

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
Really? What's it called? Joe _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 9:01 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement? Could be the ole grass is

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
I don't get that twitter and RSS integration and the need for that either. I can understand the need for available OTB integrations to other mass communication media such as maybe Skype or NetMeeting. But Twitter? To tweet what exactly? Oh I just logged into Remedy and am now at my home page, I

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread John Sundberg
Couple comments: 1. The cost of SNOW implementation and 5 years of licenses was still cheaper than our incomplete Remedy implementation (in our scenario) I can sell you a marble - that will cost less than SNOW implementation and 5 years licenses. That is sort of a misleading thing to consider.

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Joe, I used to be confused about Twitter as wellbut look at it as just another notification/reply loop. You receive emails from Remedy, right?people want the ability to receive Text messages from RemedyTwitter is just another notification methodif people want their Remedy

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread John Sundberg
(More Kinetic chewy goodness -- which BTW - you would be wise in seeing a trend on my comments. I try to be helpful - to encourage to think differently, and then say what we have done already in that space - to get you there faster) If all you do is cost containment -- you go bankrupt. You

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread John Sundberg
LJ, Agreed - should be a 5 minute add-on install to get this functionality (for any ARS version). -John On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC lj.longwing@mda.mil wrote: Joe, I used to be confused about Twitter as wellbut look at it as just another

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Ken Pritchard
Or maybe folks are opting for less functionality with these types of systems - less bells and whistles - just do whats needed to get the job done. - Original Message - From: Joe D'Souza Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, January

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
I get that. But I just do not see it as a professional tool to do that. I can understand Skype or NetMeeting or iMessage or blackberry message center, or even Whats App or silly messaging applications like that - which are not news feeds literally the world can see. -Original Message-

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I see some value in the Twitter integration specifically for companies that communicate publicly with their external customers and track their tickets in Remedy. For example, if you were a cable TV provider, you could use Remedy to send out Tweets similar to the broadcast functionality to

ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread John Baker
Joe D'Souza scribed: I get that. But I just do not see it as a professional tool to do that. But it's worse than that: Twitter is banned by many corporate proxies so whether it's Remedy On Premises or Remedy On Demand, good luck in persuading the average corporate IT Compliance/Security

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Rackley, James
Are you saying that SNOW is separating it's Service Catalog from the rest of its platform? I haven't spoken to my sales guy since December, but you would think he would have mentioned it. What I do know is that you can point your SNOW implementation at Remedy. That has been there the whole

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
James, I don't know the details. I'm gonna go find a forum or the SNOW wiki and see if I can report back with something concrete. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 11, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Rackley, James james.a.rack...@uscg.mil wrote: Are you saying that SNOW is separating it's Service Catalog from the

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
I recall bringing that up at the last RUG as being the stumbling block at about over 50% of sites I worked at that would raise firewall alarms at even something more acceptable like mail.yahoo.com or hotmail.com. Tools like NetMeeting, WebEx, Skype etc. are not a issue at 50% of these kind of

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Jim Manara
The reason multiple products succeed in the market place (Windows, MAC) or (Android, iOS) is because they address a need for some number of users. Look at the history of Project Management or Report Writing software. Having spent a number of years in the Software Industry, the worst thing to

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Jason Miller
I think a use case is broadcast type notifications. You setup a private twitter where you have to approve the followers. Then they can get instant notifications on mobile, email, web page, etc. Also it is mode of communication that is not dependent on your network. Your network can be

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Jason Miller
I just realized NetMeeting is a GoToMeeting product. I was trying to figure out who was still using MS Net Meeting :) Jason On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote: NetMeeting ___

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Joe D'Souza
I meant that and similar products. JoinMe is another.. those kind make more sense than twitter as they even give you capability of remote control. Skype allows for remote control too.. Could be quite useful for a internal IT helpdesk for remote staff.. Joe _ From: Action Request

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement?

2013-01-11 Thread Dale Hurtt
All, A little birdie was chirping the other day and I heard something about SNow having an integration or some type of implementation scenario where it is taking the place of SRM But still have AR and ITSM on the fulfillment side. I'm sure it's possible but my question to you folks is: 1.

Re: ServiceNow as SRM replacement? (marginally OT, sanity check)

2013-01-11 Thread McClure, Don
I'll select Joe's posting as a reply point—knowing that others have added more information. The University of North Texas System investigated SNOW as a Remedy replacement—by the way, our current System administration is in an ABR mode (yes, Anybody But Remedy). SNOW Pluses—a more complete