Over the last couple of years, we supported >10 of the largest ServiceNow customers to efficiently migrate from a heavily customized instance to an out-of-the-box instance. Our proven migration approach is fast, reliable, and risk-free.
Access to all new platform features
Improved employee and user experience
Lower maintenance costs
Fast & easy upgrades
We gradually migrate user groups from your current instance to the new one—without any heavy lifting or headaches.
We stand up a new ServiceNow instance—tailored to your unique business needs and work processes—while you continue to work on your old one. Using Connector4U, we duplicate your current instance.
User group by user group, we onboard your people and processes to the new instance. Data from the old instance is transferred to the new one for a seamless transition. Your day-to-day operations won’t miss a beat!
A migration of this kind requires intensive Organizational Change Management to make sure the new system gets adopted. Thankfully, we’re masters in realizing a high user adoption.
Once the new instance is up and running, we help you set up continuous improvement for the platform.
Wanting to get rid of their customization but finding de-customization too expensive, Plat4mation ended up replacing Shell’s over-customized ServiceNow instance with a fresh out-of-the-box instance.
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The new instance enables us to develop our global ServiceNow instance further. It unlocks new ServiceNow standards for automation and reduces our upgrade and running costs significantly.
Project Manager
Nouryon
No. It’s the exact opposite of reinventing the wheel. Since ServiceNow has gone a long way in adopting industry standard practices like ITIL methodology, you will not have to customize processes as they are already good as they are. An OOTB instance will therefore only save you time and costs!
This depends on the number of users, level of customization and adoption. The largest customer we ever migrated (130,000 users) took us 12-14 months.
There’s a lot of risk involved with a big bang migration. If you have e.g. 50,000 users, and 1% has issues after you flip the switch, your IT service desk will be swamped with calls—which they cannot handle all at once. And if you got broken back-end related processes that block fulfillers from doing their work, the chaos is complete. So, a big bang is not the way to go.
We start with training the users, making sure they understand how the new process works by measuring feedback during the sessions (part of our Continuous Improvement approach). After the go-live, a survey will tell us how the users have experienced the migration and adoption of the new system. We pinpoint improvements regarding adoption for the next user group. We also measure the utilization of the new instance to make sure the feedback matches the data.
Schedule a call with one of our ServiceNow implementation experts. They’ll be happy to tell you more!
