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Gabriele Kahlout, Spinning Up ServiceNow, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2571-4_10

10. Fluid collaboration

How to track internal collaboration in ServiceNow and reduce email traffic

Gabriele Kahlout

(1)Doha, Qatar

From the first day that you introduce a service desk analyst to logging a ticket in ServiceNow, you will be asked about how to add entire email groups to receive updates on a ticket. In fact at Al Jazeera 47% of all emails received by ServiceNow in 2015 had at least another email address copied in other than the desk’s.

Email groups are a common artifact of collaboration in corporate environments with almost every team in the organization having an email group for its members. There are normally more email groups than sections ...

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