Change Management
Private Equity Operations

ServiceNow – enabling Digital Transformation

“IT Support” is the area most people would associate with ServiceNow. Today, Now platform benefits are being recognised more widely within enterprises. In simple terms, ServiceNow is at the hub of critical business workflows. IT Support just happened to be the area where many companies recognised the need for standard processes, controlled workflows, rigorous audit trails and reliable records of assets and transactions.

Today, preconfigured workflows are available “out of the box” from ServiceNow to support wider central services; HR, GRC…

PESS/4VCO has developed Private Markets workflows to support Investor Reporting and Portfolio Company compliance, with more to come.

By making wider use of ServiceNow enterprises benefit from a consistent approach to task and operations management across business functions. Processes are formalised, exception handling is channelled in a transparent way – actions do not get lost or unresolved. All parties can see progress, blockages and issues with any process.

Structured processes bring many benefits; easier take-on of new or transferred personnel, measurement of activity, identification of pinch-points and breakdowns, transparency of progress for all stakeholders…

Building out your digital strategy

Automation: once processes are defined and mapped, there is the opportunity to automate steps in the workflow; data capture, reconciliations, updates to records, generation of reports…

Collaboration: ServiceNow workflows can break down silo operations, open up collaborations and help you overcome inefficiencies in critical operations.

Compliance: More widely, ServiceNow – as the underpinning software platform – supports so many aspects of digital operations compliance under DORA, NIS2

ServiceNow, Supporting Infrastructure for continuous Change and scalable business processes.