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Mergen named ServiceNow Elite Partner and Center of Excellence of the Year

Administration
scope

Instance Managed as Production Systems, Not Project Artifacts

Mergen runs ServiceNow instances with SRE-grade discipline, including deployment pipelines for update sets, automated regression testing, observability dashboards, and explicit error budgets for each environment.

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⚙️ Instance Management
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Tier-1 Bank — 4 Instances

Mergen manages dev/test/UAT/prod for a bank's ServiceNow estate. Update sets ship via CI/CD with automated test coverage at 78%.

Mergen Delivered:
99.99% uptime sustained 12 months
Zero failed update-set deployments
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Upgrades Aligned to the Release Calendar, Not Against It

Mergen manages half-yearly Now Platform upgrades using a repeatable playbook, including pre-upgrade audit, skipped-customization analysis, automated regression testing, parallel run validation, and a defined rollback plan.

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🚀 Upgrade Engineering
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Insurance Carrier — Vancouver to Yokohama

Mergen managed three consecutive ServiceNow family upgrades; each completed in a single weekend with zero rollbacks.

Mergen Delivered:
3 family upgrades, zero rollbacks
Each upgrade in < 48h window
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Risk-Tiered Governance for Faster, Safer Approvals

Mergen designs lightweight governance frameworks, including risk-tiered approval workflows, automated policy checks, and CoE intake processes calibrated to the risk level of each request rather than a single uniform gate.

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🛡️ Governance
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Government Agency Governance Redesign

Mergen redesigned approval flows with risk tiers + automated checks; low-risk changes go through in < 1 business day.

Mergen Delivered:
Avg approval time: 12 days → 1 day
Risk incidents unchanged year-over-year
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Performance, Reliability & Data Quality

Mergen conducts regular platform health audits, including performance tuning, technical debt analysis, data quality scoring, and license utilization review, sustaining platform performance well beyond the first few years.

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❤️ Platform Health
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Healthcare Network — 5-Year-Old Instance

Mergen's audit identified $1.8M in license over-provisioning + 240 deprecated customizations. Cleanup ran in 6 weeks.

Mergen Delivered:
$1.8M / yr saved on license rightsize
240 deprecated customizations removed
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Why Platforms
Need Structured Day-2 Operations

SRE Discipline

Engineering Discipline, Not Manual Oversight

Mergen applies SRE practices to ServiceNow administration, including error budgets, runbooks, postmortems, and capacity modeling, extending beyond routine ticket resolution.

Our SRE Approach

Automation-Led

Automation Before Manual Effort

Repeatable tasks, including update set merges, license audits, and instance scans, are automated, reserving manual effort for genuinely novel issues.

Automation Catalog

Continuous Improvement

Quarterly Platform Reviews

Each quarter, Mergen reports platform KPIs, including uptime, MTTR, technical debt, and license utilization, and defines the next 90-day improvement plan.

How We Report

Outcomes

Tied to Platform KPIs

Engagements are scoped to uptime, mean time to recovery, customization debt, and license utilization, with metrics shared transparently throughout.

How We Measure

ADMINISTRATION SUCCESS

Day-2 Operations
That Scale

Real Day-2 outcomes — uptime sustained, upgrades shipped, governance modernized, costs optimized.

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Banking

Tier-1 Bank

99.99%

12-month uptime

4 instances managed via CI/CD with 78% automated regression coverage.

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Insurance

Insurance Carrier

3

family upgrades, zero rollback

Upgrade playbook ran 3 consecutive Now Platform releases in single weekends.

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Public Sector

Government Agency

1d

avg approval (was 12d)

Risk-tiered approval flows + automated policy checks for low-risk changes.

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Healthcare

Healthcare Network

$1.8M

annual license rightsize

Health audit on a 5-year-old instance. 240 deprecated customizations cleaned up.

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Need Day-2 Operations
Without Relying on Heroics?

From instance management to upgrades, governance, or platform health audits, Mergen brings SRE-grade engineering rigor to ServiceNow administration.

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Talk to Platform Ops

30-minute call with a senior platform engineer.

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Free Health Audit

Two-week instance audit identifying performance, debt, and license optimization opportunities.

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Day-2 Case Studies

See how we've sustained 99.99% uptime, shipped clean upgrades, and optimized licenses.

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Start an Engagement

Fixed-outcome managed-services engagement scoped in 48 hours.

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