Reopening the workplace is a complex, dynamic process. Workplaces have diverse footprints—traditional offices, manufacturing floors, call center operations, retail locations, and more. Some industries have no choice but to return, while others have more flexibility. Yet companies across all industries must be able to manage the new reality of work with agility and resilience.

It’s been more than seven months of forced work from home for many of us, particularly in the United States. That’s six months in which our spouses, our kids, and our parents became our colleagues. And I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to feel a little antsy. If this Wall Street Journal article is any indication, I’m far from alone. Despite an initial boost in productivity, cracks in the remote work experience are clearly starting to emerge.

In this new series of Now on Now stories, we share how we use ServiceNow products internally to transform our operations and create great experiences. We hope our stories will inspire you--our customers and partners--to achieve even greater business value and resiliency through the Now Platform®. For more information, visit the Customer Workflows Book of Knowledge.

Ninjas are known for their stealth and agility, skills that take much practice and study to master. They are never satisfied with their current abilities and always seek to improve. Those noble aspirations are not limited to secret warriors. In the current climate, IT leaders are also busy adding new capabilities to their skillset. In my IT Experience Podcast, I regularly sit-down with IT pros who have valuable advice for their peers.

The rules of customer engagement have changed drastically in the last decade, not only for direct customer-facing roles but also for internal customer-facing roles such as technical service team staff, NOC admins, and more. Organizations across the globe are now fully aware that great customer service from support teams and NOC teams can have a lasting impact on employee productivity, morale, and in turn, the organization’s overall revenue churn and growth.

User account creation is a long-winded process that involves various configurations. Such a tiresome, manual process is naturally prone to errors, especially while creating user accounts in bulk. Errors made in the user provisioning process will result in frustrated users calling the service desk to request permission to access resources, to be added to the appropriate groups, to update missing profile details, etc. Why provisioning users through the Admin Center is inefficient.

IntegrationHub spokes accelerate ServiceNow-Microsoft workflow automation One of the features of the Now Platform Paris release is built-in Microsoft Azure Active Directory integrations that simplify common workflows ServiceNow Onboarding and Software Asset Management (SAM).