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title: Planning your application
description: The application development process starts with planning. Consider how the application will work, who will use it, and how it improves user experience.
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Building applications]
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# Planning your application

The application development process starts with planning. Consider how the application will work, who will use it, and how it improves user experience.

## Planning on the Next Experience

-   **[App intake](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/application-intake/submit-intake-request.md)**

    With your carefully planned idea in hand, you're ready to submit it through Application Intake for approval and development in App Engine Studio \(AES\).

-   **[Define tables and fields for application records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/define-tables-fields-application-records.md)**

    Applications use tables and records to manage data and processes, such as Incident, Problem, and CMDB.

-   **[Security: App Engine Studio roles and permissions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/app-engine-studio/aes-personas-roles.md)**

    Administrators assign roles to give team members permission to configure or use AES.


## Planning on UI16

-   **[Delegated development](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/delegated-development-and-deployment/c_DelegatedDevelopment.md)**

    Delegated development enables designated users without a system admin role to develop or deploy applications on the ServiceNow AI Platform.

-   **[Schema map for tables](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/c_SchemaMapForTables.md)**

    The schema map displays the details of tables and their relationships in a visual way, enabling administrators to view and easily access different parts of the database schema.

-   **[Table Administration](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/c_TableAdministration.md)**

    Administrators can use Table Administration to view and modify the database structure.

-   **[Team Development](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/team-development/team-development-landing.md)**

    Team Development supports parallel development on multiple, non-production ServiceNow instances.


## Related applications and features

-   **[Security: Access control](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/ACL-access-checks.md)**

    By default, when application administration is enabled for a scoped application, access control \(ACL\) rules for the scoped application are applied. If no ACL rules for the scoped application are found, global ACL rules can apply.

-   **[Security: Edge Encryption](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-security/edge-encryption.md)**

    ServiceNow® Edge Encryption encrypts sensitive data on your company premises before sending it over the internet to your ServiceNow instance \(encrypted in flight\), where it remains encrypted at rest.

-   **[Security: Roles](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/ui-builder/security-roles.md)**

    Set up the security and roles for your UI Builder instance. Security and roles in UI Builder are controlled through your application's scope, domain separation, and protection policy settings.

-   **[Security: UI policies](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/t_CreateAUIPolicy.md)**

    Create a UI policy to define custom process flows for tasks.

-   **[Security: Users and groups](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/customer-service-management/configure-csm-users-groups.md)**

    Create users and groups using the ServiceNow AI Platform user administration feature.

-   **[ServiceNow application repository](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/application-repository-self-hosted/app-repo.md)**

    After you develop and test a custom application, you can make the application available to company instances by publishing it to the ServiceNow application repository.