FRANKFURT, GERMANY — (Marketwire) — 12/08/11 — ServiceNow, the creators of , today announced it has named Filipe Lucas, who leads the service management team at EDP Group, as the latest ServiceNow IT Hero of the Month. The ServiceNow IT Hero of the Month program recognizes the outstanding achievements of the people who transform IT. Located in Portugal, EDP is one of Europe-s major electricity operators and is the fourth largest wind power producer in the world. Working with his team, Filipe is using ServiceNow to help the IT organization unify its international departments toward a single IT platform.
With the multitude of different ITIL best practices and requirements for each of EDP-s acquired companies, they needed a solution that would allow them to accommodate each department, along with the expectation of proven accessibility and availability of IT services. Initially, they planned to implement ServiceNow in four of the EDP subsidiaries. Due to the differences between each, and disparate plans among internal groups, Filipe and his team focused on one subsidiary, coordinating its internal teams, to achieve a successful rollout. They then moved on to the others until all were live, supporting over 15,000 users. Filipe, along with his professional services partner, SilverStorm, leveraged ServiceNow to support the individual ITIL processes of each company, managing incidents and service requests by employees across different groups.
EDP Group-s previous IT service software was unable to provide the level of support across the multiple departments within the company. ServiceNow created an avenue for handling these service requests through a self-service portal, which allowed the company to change tools and support each individual IT process, while relying on the ServiceNow cloud service to integrate individual ITIL processes.
“ServiceNow has provided us with an easy-to-use solution for EDP-s users to access from anywhere, improving IT services throughout the organization and supporting our unique system and ITIL processes,” said Filipe. “I-m looking forward to our future plans of including a single IT platform that will lead to a model of unified management, and eventually, to an end-to-end system of services across the organization. I am happy to accept this award for and on behalf of Grupo EDP and attribute much of the success to Hugo Loredo Colunga for his exceptional contribution.”
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