Service Catalog Management
Service catalog management defines and maintains a clear menu of services people can request from IT. It connects each request to the information, approvals, and fulfillment work needed to deliver it predictably.
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Service Catalog Management
A service catalog is the controlled front door for requestable services. It tells a person what they can request, who can request it, what information is needed, and what happens after submission.
This is not an inventory of every system IT owns. A catalog item represents a request a person can make and a fulfillment path a team can run. A laptop request, application access request, and new-hire setup are useful examples. A hidden internal task is not a useful catalog item on its own.
The catalog makes work legible at the point where demand enters. A requester sees a service description instead of guessing which queue to use. The fulfillment team receives structured information instead of an unbounded free-text ticket. Approval and routing rules can apply consistently.
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Sources
- https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c_UsingTheServiceCatalog.html
Supports
- Catalog items as individually orderable goods, services, or information
- Requester tracking, fulfillment groups, predefined fulfillment tasks, required approvals, and reporting
- https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c_RequestingAServiceCatalogItem.html
Supports
- A submitted order creating a request and each ordered item creating a discrete request item
- https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/catalog-item-form.html
Supports
- Catalog item ownership, visibility, descriptions, fulfillment automation levels, access types, approvals, variables, variable sets, related items, and related articles
- https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/t_CreateAVariableForACatalogItem.html
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- Catalog variables as request data fields and their ordering, mandatory state, visibility, and role controls
- https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c_ServiceCatalogVariableSets.html
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- Reusable variable collections across catalog items and order guides and the maintenance benefit of shared questions
- https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c_ServiceCatalogOrderGuides.html
Supports
- Order guides creating several catalog items from one request, rule-based inclusion, cascading variables, and fulfillment sequencing
- https://www.atlassian.com/itsm/service-request-management/service-catalog
Supports
- Service catalogs as organized service lists with clear request options and expectations, including service offerings, options, and service relationships