Course Catalog
ServiceNow Platform Analytics (PA) Advanced
Code: SNPAA
Duration: 2 Day
$1900 USD

OVERVIEW

Performance Analytics enables the monitoring, trending, and proactive improvement of business services using key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics viewed in role-based dashboards.

This 2-day training builds upon the knowledge obtained in the Performance Analytics Fundamentals course. Here you continue to build a solid analytics data foundation, model key business process indicators, and design compelling dashboards to help drive service delivery quality and efficiency.

DELIVERY FORMAT

This course is available in the following formats:

Virtual Classroom

Duration: 2 Day
Classroom

Duration: 2 Day

CLASS SCHEDULE

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Jul 21 2026 - Jul 22 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CDT
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Aug 12 2026 - Aug 13 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CDT
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Aug 26 2026 - Aug 27 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CDT
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Sep 02 2026 - Sep 03 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CDT
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Sep 22 2026 - Sep 23 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CDT
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Oct 26 2026 - Oct 27 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CDT
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Nov 18 2026 - Nov 19 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CST
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

Delivery Format: Virtual Classroom
Date: Dec 22 2026 - Dec 23 2026 | 09:00 - 17:00 CST
Location: Online
Course Length: 2 Day

$ 1900

GOALS

The following topics are discussed using a mix of labs and lecture:

  • Review the Performance Analytics Adoption Journey
  • Build Bucket Groups and Breakdown Relations
  • Configure Scripts for Indicator Aggregates, Buckets, and Mappings
  • Apply advanced reporting techniques for impactful data summaries
  • Launch and navigate Interactive Analysis
  • Apply Spotlight to identify high priority work
  • Build Indicators using Platform Metrics
  • Implement advanced formula techniques and build Index Indicators
  • Set up Text Analytics
OUTLINE

Module 1: Adoption Journey

Objectives: Review the Performance Analytics use case and stakeholder objectives. Identify the three pillars of Performance Analytics: Responsive Business, Service Improvement, and Data Foundation.

Lab work:

  • Lab 1.1: Analytics for Business Applications

Module 2: Buckets and Scripts

Objectives: Introduce the concept of bucket groups and the process for configuring a bucket group as a breakdown source. Discuss scripts and configure a scripted breakdown mappings. Outline best practices for breakdown data growth management.

Lab work:

  • Lab 2.1: Bucket Groups
  • Lab 2.2: Scripted Breakdown

Module 3: Breakdown Relations and Security

Objectives: Implement advanced use cases for Breakdown categorization and navigation. Configure Indicator, Breakdown, and Breakdown Element-level security options.

Lab work:

  • Lab 3.1: Breakdown Relations
  • Lab 3.2: Breakdown Security

Module 4: Reporting Techniques

Objectives: Build a Database View, include multi datasets in a report, configure drill-downs, add a Redirect URL, leverage an imported Excel document as a report source, and build Report Ranges

Lab work:

  • Lab 4.1: Database View
  • Lab 4.2: Multi Data Sets
  • Lab 4.3: Data Sources
  • Lab 4.4: Report Ranges

Module 5: Responsive Dashboards

Objectives: Use Interactive Analysis, Configure Interactive Filters, Implement Cascading Filters, Enable Breakdown Dashboards, Use Breakdowns as Interactive Filters, Manage Dashboard Performance and Properties

Lab work:

  • Lab 5.1: Interactive Dashboards
  • Optional Lab 5.2: Interactive Analysis

Module 6: Spotlight

Objectives: Identify key Spotlight capabilities, configure Spotlight Criteria, implement Spotlight reporting, set up Spotlight for Service Monitoring, navigate Spotlight Interactive Analysis

Lab work:

  • Lab 6.1: Configure Spotlight for Incident Management

Module 7: Analytics on Platform Metric

Objectives: Define Metric Definitions and Metric Instances, review the Metric Instance generation, configure Metric Instance Reporting, build Metric-based Automated Indicators

Lab work:

  • Lab 7.1: Metric Reporting and Trending

Module 8: Advanced Formula Indicators

Objectives: Identify advanced formula use cases, master Formula Indicator techniques and design Index Indicators

Lab work:

  • Lab 8.1: Index Indicators

Module 9: Text Analytics

Objectives: Describe the Text Analytics use case. Configure Text Analytics for Performance Analytics Indicators.

Lab work:

  • Lab 9.1: Text Analytics

Module 1: Adoption Journey

Objectives: Review the Performance Analytics use case and stakeholder objectives. Identify the three pillars of Performance Analytics: Responsive Business, Service Improvement, and Data Foundation.

Lab work:

  • Lab 1.1: Analytics for Business Applications

Module 2: Buckets and Scripts

Objectives: Introduce the concept of bucket groups and the process for configuring a bucket group as a breakdown source. Discuss scripts and configure a scripted breakdown mappings. Outline best practices for breakdown data growth management.

Lab work:

  • Lab 2.1: Bucket Groups
  • Lab 2.2: Scripted Breakdown

Module 3: Breakdown Relations and Security

Objectives: Implement advanced use cases for Breakdown categorization and navigation. Configure Indicator, Breakdown, and Breakdown Element-level security options.

Lab work:

  • Lab 3.1: Breakdown Relations
  • Lab 3.2: Breakdown Security

Module 4: Reporting Techniques

Objectives: Build a Database View, include multi datasets in a report, configure drill-downs, add a Redirect URL, leverage an imported Excel document as a report source, and build Report Ranges

Lab work:

  • Lab 4.1: Database View
  • Lab 4.2: Multi Data Sets
  • Lab 4.3: Data Sources
  • Lab 4.4: Report Ranges

Module 5: Responsive Dashboards

Objectives: Use Interactive Analysis, Configure Interactive Filters, Implement Cascading Filters, Enable Breakdown Dashboards, Use Breakdowns as Interactive Filters, Manage Dashboard Performance and Properties

Lab work:

  • Lab 5.1: Interactive Dashboards
  • Optional Lab 5.2: Interactive Analysis

Module 6: Spotlight

Objectives: Identify key Spotlight capabilities, configure Spotlight Criteria, implement Spotlight reporting, set up Spotlight for Service Monitoring, navigate Spotlight Interactive Analysis

Lab work:

  • Lab 6.1: Configure Spotlight for Incident Management

Module 7: Analytics on Platform Metric

Objectives: Define Metric Definitions and Metric Instances, review the Metric Instance generation, configure Metric Instance Reporting, build Metric-based Automated Indicators

Lab work:

  • Lab 7.1: Metric Reporting and Trending

Module 8: Advanced Formula Indicators

Objectives: Identify advanced formula use cases, master Formula Indicator techniques and design Index Indicators

Lab work:

  • Lab 8.1: Index Indicators

Module 9: Text Analytics

Objectives: Describe the Text Analytics use case. Configure Text Analytics for Performance Analytics Indicators.

Lab work:

  • Lab 9.1: Text Analytics
LABS

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is designed for experienced Performance Analytics Administrators and Power Users who already administer and build content for the Reports and Performance Analytics applications.

PREREQUISITES

None