GuardRails is a ServiceNow Platform Governance application that lowers the cost, improves quality and reduces the risk of doing ServiceNow development. GuardRails is a suite of capabilities that is suitable for any organization at any stage of their ServiceNow journey.

GuardRails is designed to address three very specific areas within your ServiceNow environment. **GuardRails Reduces Cost, GuardRails Reduces Risk and GuardRails Accelerates Innovation**.

Traditionally organizations have struggled to fully realize the massive power of ServiceNow. Whether that is within IT or across the other lines of business. Technical debt, operational heaviness, and lack of governance have all played their part in handcuffing ServiceNow teams from maximizing the value of this incredible platform.  Organizations that use GuardRails experience a meaningful increase in quality and velocity of development while saving on operational costs. GuardRails allows organizations to break away from the “Speed, Cost, Quality paradigm.” In this paradigm you can choose any two, at the expense of the third. With GuardRails you no longer need to choose. With GuardRails, Speed and Quality can be delivered without driving up the cost.

Simply put GuardRails enables high quality development that saves time and money. 

**Each feature and capability that GuardRails offers is designed to reduce operational cost, reduce platform risk, and accelerate innovation. **

**Version Control and Souce Control Management**

GuardRails brings the experience and features of your favourite SCM tools such as Bitbucket or Github directly on platform. Developers can initiate pull requests which allow platform reviewers to perform in-line code review, version control, and more with GuardRails SCM. 

**Known Errors and Roadmap Updates**

GuardRails provide visibility into a robust library of Known Errors and Roadmap updates that are contextually displayed whenever a developer is accessing any configuration on the platform.

**Best Practice Monitoring**

GuardRails is fully integrated to ServiceNow Scan Checks and we enable real-time visibility into best practice violations as they occur on your platform. You can also create your own library of Best Practices and enforce your own policies and controls platform-wide.

**GuardRails Configuration Monitoring**

As development happens on any number of monitored ServiceNow instances, any configurations that could cause an impact are automatically flagged for your platform team to engage in further review and approval. Mitigate any possibility of risk to your ServiceNow development.

**GuardRails Pipelines**

Streamline your ServiceNow releases for update sets by using our GuardRails Pipeline feature. Fully automate and orchestrate your deployments with one click. Supported automations include: GuardRails Collision Pre-Check, Automated Test Framework, Production Change Request creation and verification, Retrieval and Commit Update Sets, and more!

**Advanced Analytics**

GuardRails provides a wealth of information into your overall posture of your instance including technical debt, violations of best practices, and ongoing issues (known errors) that could cause adverse impact to your production instance.

**GuardRails System Scans**

Our System Scan feature enables your platform team to gain advanced forensic analysis on the current state of your instance by scanning all application files for customizations, net (new) configurations, dependencies, and more. Reduce your time to upgrade, accurate estimation of technical debt refactoring, and more with one click.

**To see how these features will accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and lower operational cost on your ServiceNow platform please request a FREE TRIAL. We’d be happy to show you exactly what GuardRails can do for you!**