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Integration Hub

Automate integration tasks using ServiceNow components for Flow Designer , or develop custom integrations. A separate subscription is required.

Capabilities The Integration Hub provides both inbound and outbound integration with third-party applications.

Inbound integration occurs when a flow that you set up on Flow Designer responds to a conditional and event-driven external webhook from a third-party system and executes. For example, when you create a P1 issue on an issue-tracking application, its external webhook triggers a flow in the ServiceNow instance and an incidence database table is updated in the ServiceNow instance. Here, the webhook is conditional and event-driven.

Outbound integration occurs when the Integration Hub enables execution of third-party APIs as a part of a flow when a specific event occurs in ServiceNow . These integrations, referred to as spokes, are easy to configure and enable you to quickly add powerful actions without the need to write a script. For example, you can post a message and incident details in a Slack channel when a high priority incident is created.

Integration Hub provides the following functionality:

Create spokes

Build spokes using Spoke Generator to automate integration tasks by creating a sequence of reusable actions to develop custom integrations. For more information, see Building spokes using Spoke Generator .

Spokes for base system integrations

Using Integration Hub actions in Flow Designer , you can: Post messages and ServiceNow incident, problem, and change record details to Slack Spoke , or Microsoft Teams Spoke communications channels. Synchronize data across multiple production instances using Integration Hub Remote Process Sync .

Create custom integrations

Build custom integrations with Action Designer using a REST step or a Script step .

Automate inbound integrations with third-party applications

Set up a flow with external trigger definition on Flow Designer by selecting base system external trigger definitions, and actions from the spokes or core actions. Then, Set up external trigger endpoints that the third-party application webhooks use to trigger the flow you had set up. Your ServiceNow instance authenticates the webhook before it triggers the flow.

Automate the administration of servers and applications in your network

Use custom actions to delegate Flow Designer processes to a MID Server in your network. For example, actions that use the PowerShell step or REST step .

Connection and Credentials Integration Hub takes advantage of aliases to manage connection information and credentials when integrating with external systems. Using an alias eliminates the need to configure multiple credentials and connection information profiles when using multiple environments. Integration Hub only requires an alias, which then resolves to use the correct credentials and connection information during runtime. Learn more about credentials, connections, and aliases .

Benefits Integration Hub provides process owners and developers these benefits.

Consolidates multiple Now Platform automation capabilities into a single environment so process owners and developers can build and visualize business processes and integrations from a single interface. Extends Flow Designer content to integrate business processes with external systems. Promotes business process automation by enabling subject matter experts to develop and share spokes with flow designers. Provides natural-language-descriptions of integration logic to help non-technical users understand triggers, actions, inputs, and outputs.

Development process When developing a custom integration, develop all actions for the integration within a scoped application. When deployed to a target instance, these actions are grouped as a spoke in Flow Designer . Brand the spoke by adding a custom icon to the application record. To learn more about application development, see Build applications .

When developing spokes, flow and action designers typically perform these application development tasks.

Create a scoped application on a development instance to build spokes. Publish a test version of the scoped application to the application repository. Deploy the scoped application to a test instance from the application repository. Test the scoped application on the test instance. When working as expected, publish the scoped application in one of the following ways. Publish to the application repository for deployment on production instances. Publish to the ServiceNow Store as an application that customers can request for their environments. Publish to ServiceNow Share to provide content to other customers in the ServiceNow community.

Review Flow Designer design considerations in the Architecture Overview .

Request Integration Hub ServiceNow® Integration Hub lets you build reusable integrations with third-party systems and call them from anywhere in the Now Platform . For example, you can request Integration Hub to call external systems using integration APIs from the Action Designer Script step, run the Script step on the ServiceNow® MID Server , and activate protocol steps like REST, SOAP, and PowerShell. Integration Hub Usage Dashboard Get insights on the usage of Integration Hub data from the Integration Hub Usage Dashboard. For example, view the average number of monthly transactions in the last year or the data egress from Integration Hub via REST and SOAP API protocols. Integration Hub available spokes Activate spokes to enhance your Flow Designer experience with integration-specific content. Use pre-built flows and actions to automate your integrations or create your own integration automation. Connections dashboard View and configure your connection and credential aliases through a simplified interface. Add new connections, edit existing connections, and view connection details. Domain separation and Integration Hub Domain separation is supported for Integration Hub . Domain separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data. Support multiple connections Support several connections to a single integration provider. Select connections for flows, subflows, and actions directly from a flow. Data Stream actions and pagination Send REST, SOAP, or JDBC requests from Flow Designer to APIs that return a stream of response data larger than 10 MB, or that return paginated results. Parse stream data into a series of complex object outputs and use the data pills in other actions in a flow. REST API trigger Start a flow from an inbound API call or webhook from an external system. Configure the trigger start conditions without having to write or maintain custom code. Conditional and event-driven inbound integration Integration Hub enables both conditional and event-driven inbound integration with third-party applications. Integration steps Enable custom actions to integrate with external systems by activating Integration Hub , which adds integration steps to the Action Designer interface. OpenAPI step Import the OpenAPI specification of a third-party outbound REST web service and build an integration to the web service. The request details for the underlying REST API operation are derived from the OpenAPI specification. Password reset using Integration Hub Create subflows in Integration Hub to automate and customize the password reset process for users managed by third-party applications such as Okta or Microsoft Azure AD .

Parent Topic: Creating integrations with applications