Splunk is a software platform designed to search, analyze and visualize machine-generated data, making sense of what, to most of us, looks like chaos. Ordinarily, the machine data used by Splunk is gathered from websites, applications, servers, network equipment, sensors, IoT (internet-of-things) devices, etc, but there’s no limit to the complexity of data Splunk can consume. Splunk specializes in Big …

ServiceNow uses a special type of super flexible variable to store information in what appears like a single field, but is actually a complex storage/management system with a database column type called glide_var.As each record can have a different number of variables stored as key/value pairs, there’s no easy way of dot-walking to the name of the variable within the …

ServiceNow has implemented Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) based on the OCEG (Open Compliance & Ethics Group) GRP Capability Model. What is GRC?

• Governance allows an organisation to reliably achieve its objectives
• Risk addresses uncertainty in a structured manner
• Compliance ensures business activities are undertaken with integrity

Whether organisations formally recognize GRC or not, they all need to …

Effective ICT departments are increasingly reliant on solid software and hardware asset management, yet the concept can often strike fear into the hearts of organisations as the complexity and work involved can seem endless. Indeed, Asset Management can be like trying to reach the moon with a step ladder! New advances in ServiceNow seek to change that ladder into a …

Why automate? ServiceNow provides two releases a year, delivering new features to consistently support best practice processes. ServiceNow has flagged they will move towards “N-1” upgrades in 2019, meaning every customer will need to accept each release in the future. To keep up, ServiceNow customers should consider automated testing. This can provide regression testing, completed consistently for each release, and reduce …

New technology terms are constantly being coined. One of our lead consultants answers the question: Is DevPerfOps a thing? Hopefully it’s no surprise that traditional performance testing has struggled to adapt to the new paradigm of DevOps, or even Agile. The problems can be boiled down to a few key factors:

1. Performance testing takes time—time to script, and time …
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Millions of IT professionals use JIRA, Confluence, and Bitbucket daily as the backbone of their software lifecycle. These tools are critical to getting anything done in thousands of organisations. If you’re reading this, it’s safe to guess that’s the case for your organisation too! Application monitoring is crucial when your business relies on good application performance. Just knowing that your …

Understanding how your SAP system is performing can be a time-consuming process. With multiple environments, servers, APIs, interfaces and applications, there are numerous pieces to the puzzle, and stitching together the end-to-end story requires a lot of work. That’s where SAP PowerConnect can assist. This SAP-certified tool simplifies the process by seamlessly collating your SAP metrics into a single command …

There are many use cases for deploying a tool to monitor your SAP system. Releasing your application between test environments, introducing additional users to your production system, or developing new functionality—all of these introduce an element of risk to your application and environment. Whether you are upgrading to SAP HANA, moving data centres, or expanding your use of ECC modules …