ITSM / Deployments

Deployments

Push a catalog service to a targeted audience on a schedule, track who completed the form and which tickets were created, without emailing the whole company manually.

Real-world scenario

Maya Chen · IT Manager at Bluewave Labs

Security needs every engineer to re-attest VPN usage this quarter. Maya deploys the VPN Access Request service to the Engineering folder with reminders, instead of chasing 80 people in Slack.

Before you begin

  • ITSM license enabled
  • At least one published catalog service
  • Employee folders or teams for audience targeting

Overview

ITSM deployments roll out a catalog service to a defined audience, departments, teams, workplaces, or all employees, for a time-bound campaign. Recipients get portal notifications; each submission creates a service ticket you can track alongside organic requests.

For example

Maya launches Q2 VPN Re-Attestation to Engineering (84 people). After two weeks: 71 completed, 9 in progress, 4 not started, with linked tickets in Service Requests.

Use cases

  • Compliance attestations. Annual security or software policy acknowledgments
  • Onboarding campaigns. New hire equipment selection or standard software bundle
  • Department rollouts. Push a new Figma request form when Design hires spike
  • Access reviews. VPN or privileged access reconfirmation by team

Deployment lifecycle

Deployments move through clear phases:

  • Draft. Configure service, audience, and dates before anyone is notified
  • Scheduled. Queued to start on a future date
  • Active. Recipients see prompts in the portal; submissions create tickets
  • Completed. End date passed; review completion rate and export status

Each phase shows recipient counts, completion rate, and linked service tickets on the deployment detail page.

Create a deployment

See How to Create a Deployment for the full walkthrough, select service, audience, dates, and notification channels.

DEX parallels

DEX uses a similar deployment model for surveys. If you run employee experience campaigns too, see DEX Deployments, same concept, different artifact (survey vs service form).

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