IT Project: New and Improved IT Self-Service Portal (ServiceNow 2.0)

This project will develop a new self-service IT portal. Goals include transforming the Service Desk into the primary contact point to more quickly resolve service requests, eliminating technical debt, and enabling data-informed continuous improvement. The project will also deliver a re-architected self-service environment to improve service outcomes, user experience, and the effectiveness of ongoing service management.

Green dash
  • Improved user experience of ITS services, enabled by new self-service portal, knowledge base, request experience, and enhanced processes
  • Improved employee productivity through streamlined workflows for all in-scope processes, enabled by ServiceNow automation
  • Improved employee satisfaction resulting from shared understanding of services, processes, roles, responsibilities
  • Improved transparency on service performance
  • Improved agility for future ServiceNow development
  • Advancement of ITS mission and vision of providing exceptional, modern, accessible, and secure services to enable the learning, teaching, research and service mission of UC Santa Cruz
Green dash
  • Gather and document business needs
  • Develop processes rooted in Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) practices
  • Solution, configure and develop an updated ServiceNow platform
  • User testing, training, change management, communication, implementation, and operationalization
Green dash

July 2025

Project kickoff

December 2025

Phase one go live

February 2026

Phase two go live

March 2026

Project wrap up

Green dash

Executive sponsor

  • Vice Chancellor of Information Technology
Green dash

Project charter

Last modified: Dec 01, 2025