SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 19, 2024 – ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, has been named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape vendor assessments:

• Worldwide Value Stream Management (VSM) and Agile Project and Portfolio Management 2023‑2024
• Worldwide Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and IT Project and Portfolio Management 2023‑2024

According to the reports, “ServiceNow’s combined platform and execution across its Strategic Portfolio Management strategy enable a strong foundation for leverage for Project Portfolio Management, Application Portfolio Management, and Agile. The company’s expanding focus with AI and GenAI create a needed foundation and basis to evolve further as organizations seek to manage Products, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), portfolios, epics, programs, and/or tasks and user stories that encompass business and other initiatives.”

“Value Stream Management and Strategic Portfolio Management have become essential for organizations to execute and deliver in our fast‑paced, dynamic world of work,” said Pablo Stern, SVP, Technology Workflow Products at ServiceNow. “Business leaders are looking to ServiceNow to deliver business outcomes and better adapt to change. Through the power of intelligent automation and AI, the Now Platform can help connect everyone from the C‑Suite to Agile and DevOps teams to align with business strategy and optimize workflows so companies can prioritize speed, compliance, and value delivery at scale."

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Mike Sabia
Co-host: Eddie McDonald

The demands of modern businesses continue to reshape IT asset management (ITAM) beyond traditional practices and tools.

ServiceNow commissioned Enterprise Management Associates to survey 450 global IT leaders on the state of ITAM. Our report, “A business view of ITAM,” sheds light on the most critical aspects leaders need to focus on to deliver ITAM success.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Eddie McDonald
Co-host: Mike Sabia

Organizations are under more pressure than ever to maximize the benefits of their digital transformation technology investments. Those that use technology to ramp up productivity will leapfrog the competition.

At ServiceNow, we’re excited to support organizations in their digital transformation journeys. The Now Platform® Washington, D.C., release, available today, is designed to do exactly that. The innovations in this release deliver intelligent automation, simplified experiences, and extensibility—complemented by generative AI (GenAI)—for fast time to value.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Mike Sabia
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Eddie McDonald

At ServiceNow, we’re driven by our purpose to make the world work better for everyone. To that end, one of our top priorities is helping the global nonprofit sector digitally transform its operations.

That’s why we’re launching the ServiceNow.org Partnership for Good Grant: to provide nonprofits with technology that will allow them to do better business and more good.

In 2024, we’ll award four grants—up to $2 million in total value—to individual nonprofits that use technology in impactful ways to enable greater efficiencies and better serve their communities.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Eddie McDonald
Co-host: Mike Sabia

Continuous change and economic uncertainty are normal in today’s business environment. In fact, 88% of executives believe their customers are changing faster than their business can keep up, according to Accenture.

A unified and intelligent platform can help organizations focus on what matters most—Net Promoter Score, revenue growth, and margin expansion—and seamlessly adapt to change.

At ServiceNow, we use our solutions internally to maintain this same focus while ensuring we’re ready to take on whatever comes next. Let’s look at three examples:

• IT Service Management and IT Operations Management (together known as service operations)
• IT Asset Management
• Strategic Portfolio Management

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Eddie McDonald
Co-host: Mike Sabia

If you're a ServiceNow Architect, aim to become one, or work with Architects, this article could be useful for you!

I wanted to share with you my experience of the excellent ServiceNow Certified Master Architect (CMA) program that I'm lucky to be a part of.

Wait… What is that Certified Master Architect program?

ServiceNow has created a new "elite" program, to train and certify specialists, way above the “Implementation Specialist” level.

This is a six-month program, including 2 weeks of on-site trainings, and 4-6 hours per week of live webinars! This program is currently only offered to registered implementation partners and internal customer facing ServiceNow consultants. This program and certification is not intended for customers.

A typical participant is expected to be a veteran leader in the ServiceNow field, having successfully delivered many large, complex, global multi-product projects on the ServiceNow platform. They are required to have a special blend of technical expertise and soft skills in sales conversations and also post sales deliver domains allowing them to manage and communicate best practice advice and guidance with customers.

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Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Eddie McDonald
Co-host: Mike Sabia

ServiceNow is excited to peer into the future of customer experience (CX) to see what’s in store. Customer operations and service delivery have undergone significant disruptions in recent years. The year ahead promises to be no different.

The continuing need to deliver a frictionless customer journey, a renewed focus on improving the agent experience, and the meteoric rise of generative AI (GenAI) are some of the many reasons why CX is poised for transformation.

Join us in counting down our top CX predictions for 2024:

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Becky Whiten
Co-host: John Dahl

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a customer-centric framework that promotes governance, collaboration, and continuous improvement. At a time when IT service management (ITSM) is changing with new technology, shifting regulatory requirements, and decentralized teams, this is vital.

We explored how the ITIL 4 service value system helps ITSM service providers generate business value through the creation, delivery, and continuous improvement of services. Now let’s look at ITIL 4 guidance on change enablement.

Host: Andy Whtieside
Co-host: John Dahl
Co-host: Eddie McDonald

It’s no secret that finance organizations are ripe for disruption. Managing money has always been a manual process, from securing payment orders to renewing licenses, and everything in between.

That's why ServiceNow Chief Financial Officer Gina Mastantuono invested in a formal citizen development program. She wanted to encourage all finance employees to lean into no- or low-code tools, such as App Engine Studio, to build applications.

Today, 15% of ServiceNow finance employees are citizen developers, with nearly 30 applications in development and production—all built on the Now Platform.

“I’m always thinking about how we can become the finance organization of the future, where the entire team can do their best work. That’s why we invested in this program,” Mastantuono says.

“Now we’re automating the mundane yet essential transactional work, centralizing workflows, and paving the way for more impactful work that minimizes risk, drives innovation, accelerates productivity, and builds better cross-functional relationships. It’s critical to our digital transformation.”

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Becky Whiten
Guest: Eddie McDonald
Guest: John Dahl

Product experience is a key driver of business success for ServiceNow and our customers. That’s why my product experience team and I spend a lot of time focusing on design principles that help ensure we exceed our customers' expectations.

You don’t have to be a designer to use these principles and create great experiences. These are fundamentals that anyone can put into practice.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Kristen McDonald
Co-host: Becky Whiten

In my conversations with the ServiceNow partner community, there’s one thing I’m consistently asked: How do we work with you to adapt to the rapid speed of innovation and change? My answer is simple: To truly innovate, you have to understand the trends behind the innovation.

ServiceNow recently collaborated with Harbor Research to scan the global marketplace. We wanted to understand the widespread digital transformation and rapid technology shifts that are fueling growth—and driving significant complexities—for organizations.

I’m happy to announce the release of our inaugural innovation trends report. We’ve uncovered six key technology trends that will affect the ways organizations reimagine work, processes, and value creation.

The report also highlights the implications of cloud computing and AI, and how they’ve revolutionized resource creation and management. Let’s face it, as the digital landscape shifts, new technologies emerge—and so do opportunities to enable growth.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Kristen McDonald
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Derek Cassese

The Citrix ITSM Adapter service is a cloud-enabled service that, when installed in a ServiceNow instance, provides an easy way to seamlessly integrate ServiceNow capabilities with your Citrix environments. With the Citrix ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow, you can:

• Experience intelligent automation of employee self-services
• Simplify the provisioning and de-provisioning of your Citrix resources
• Access a centralized dashboard where you can monitor alerts and notifications and decide which incidents to follow up on

With this integration, you’ll be able to save valuable time spent by your IT team on manual and one-off processes by automating mundane work, as well as help empower end users to stay productive. By improving the IT management of Citrix services while enhancing the user experience, everyone gets more time to focus on the strategic priorities that matter most.

Over the past few months, the Citrix ITSM team has delivered many new features and enhancements through the 21.12.1 and 22.3.0 releases. For a complete list of what we’ve introduced in the past several releases, please visit our product documentation.

In this blog post, we will highlight some of the key enhancements we’ve introduced with the Citrix ITSM Adapter for ServiceNow service. Let’s take a look at some of these releases in more detail.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Becky Whiten
Guests: Geremy Meyers
Guests: Charlie Lopez
Guests: Amir Trujillo

In today’s fast-paced business environment, determining how short-term projects fit into long-term organizational goals may seem daunting. A strategic portfolio management framework is critical for companies looking to align their projects, investments, and resources with their overall business strategy.

ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) can help organizations consolidate their most pressing business priorities on a single platform. Let’s explore four ways SPM can help streamline your path to success.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Kristen McDonald
Co-host: Becky Whiten
Co-host: Derek Cassese

ServiceNow is proud to be named a Leader, for the second consecutive year, in the Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management (ITRM).1 We’re especially pleased that our ability to execute has been recognized with the highest rating of all vendors evaluated.

Gartner also named ServiceNow a Leader in the August 2021 IT Vendor Risk Management Tools. Together, we believe these recognitions validate our leadership in helping businesses successfully navigate a challenging landscape, build resilience, and manage risk.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Rebecca Whitten

Human resources (HR) digital transformation isn’t just a switch you can flip. It’s a never-ending process that starts at different points for every organization and team. When I meet with HR leaders across industries, I’m always excited to learn about their unique, complex challenges.

As we stare down a new wave of economic uncertainty, it’s never been more important for HR leaders to make a strong business case for HR digital transformation, whether for our CEOs, boards, or investors.

In a survey by Fortune and Deloitte, 76% of CEOs said they have a “pessimistic” 12-month outlook for the global economy. Especially in this climate, business leaders want to know what kind of value they’re getting from their technology investments. They also want to improve productivity and efficiency across the workforce.

I know from experience how difficult it is to implement massive HR changes at a global organization, no matter the global economic pressures. That’s why I joined ServiceNow: We offer a world-class platform that delivers tremendous value for our employees, managers, and company. We do this for our customers too. 

HR leaders need new ways to deliver for their people and drive business success. As an HR business leader, I want to share three ways a company can supercharge its HR digital transformation.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Kristin McDonald
Co-host: Becky Whiten

2020 was a year of reckoning for companies across all industries. Businesses were challenged with adjusting to the new realities of work and life brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and many organizations quickly responded to help meet evolving employee needs. 

 At ServiceNow, we’re proud that we were able to bring our Emergency Response apps and Safe Workplace suite to market within a matter of weeks to help our customers respond to COVID-19 while helping to keep their employees safe and productive. More than 900 enterprises globally have downloaded our Safe Workplace apps, with more than 9,500 app installations to date.  

 We will continue to enable a safe and efficient workplace, releasing new workflow solutions and capabilities twice a month to support organizations – regardless of when and where their employees work. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Kristin McDonald
Co-host: Becky Whiten

ServiceNow’s first single, global, in-person user conference since 2019, Knowledge 2023, drew more than 15,000 people. The enthusiasm among attendees was contagious.

The opening keynote of this year’s conference in Las Vegas was standing room only. Against the theme of “Putting Yes to Work,” speakers shared their well-honed insights into the future of ServiceNow, the world of work as we know it, and how companies can say yes to both growing their top line and protecting their bottom line.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Kristen McDonald

We’re excited to announce that ServiceNow Knowledge 2023 registration is open. This year, we’re thrilled to be able to convene at one global event May 14-18, 2023, at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas.

Our flagship user conference is an opportunity to gather with like-minded people who are passionate about creating great experiences for employees, customers, and partners.

When the world changes, as it has in the last few years, you need to be ready to automate, drive productivity, and address today's needs while building a promising future. You can say yes to all of these. How? Join us at Knowledge to find out how to create endless possibilities that spark transformation. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds

In today's business landscape, the employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) are closely connected. Improving CX can have a positive effect on EX and vice versa, making it crucial for both customers and employees. Join Kristen and Moin as they delve into the importance of the total experience and customer success, and explore how improving CX and EX can benefit everyone involved.

Host: Moin Khan
Co-host: Kristin McDonald

The retail, banking, telecom, and tech sectors have been trying to prove their love of customer experience (CX) for years. But the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to elevate those vital customer relationships.

German shoemaker Adidas is a case in point. In November 2020, it reported strong quarter-over-quarter performance. CEO Kasper Rørsted told Seeking Alpha that a great deal of the company’s success stemmed from using digital channels to woo people into enrolling in its membership program, which had tripled from 50 million to 150 million during the prior 12 months. Members shop more and spend more on each transaction, resulting in a lifetime value 2.5 times greater than non-members.

[Ready to enhance customer experience? Read IDC’s Spotlight, sponsored by ServiceNow.]

Digital has changed the CX tune

The COVID-19 pandemic has turbocharged the migration from physical to digital channels. And expectations are high. The "app for everything" mentality is rampant. If one app—or product or service—doesn't work, we can easily switch to another.

The pressure is on for customer success leaders to set priorities that turn things up to 11. According to an IDC-ServiceNow survey conducted in Europe in late 2020, these are the top three priorities for customer leaders:

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Kristin McDonald

A 2021 Deloitte study found knowledge management (KM) to be one of the top three issues influencing company success. According to the survey, 75% of organizations reported that creating and preserving knowledge across evolving workforces would be critical to their success over the next 12 to 18 months.

This is clearly a competitive advantage. Yet only 9% of surveyed organizations felt prepared to address KM. Blame that on the sudden shift to a remote workforce.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, traditional views of how to handle knowledge are changing. The new environment champions an iterative, knowledge-sharing culture that fosters a repeatable content creation and transfer process. An intentional environment like this is sustainable only when employees and processes are front and center.

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Co-host: Kristin McDonald

You retrieve data about the service in question and instantly see exactly which infrastructure components the service depends on, as well as their statuses. You quickly engage IT operators to address the issue and notify the line-of-business lead with an estimated time for its resolution. 

This scenario doesn’t have to be an impossible dream. Infrastructure visibility is a reality for numerous enterprises around the world, including many ServiceNow customers. It can be your reality too, without nearly as much time and effort as you might think. 

Developing an infrastructure visibility strategy that includes automated discovery and service mapping can give you an up-to-date picture of all your business-critical services. When an issue arises, you can quickly drill down to identify the component causing it. Even better, you can anticipate potential disruptions and take action to prevent downtime. 

Let’s explore six steps to help you increase service visibility.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Kristin McDonald 

From humble beginnings to becoming an enterprise with more than 20,000 employees globally, ServiceNow has been through a lot of changes since its founding in 2004. Although it started as an IT service management company, it's grown to connect people, functions, and systems across organizations.

Today, ServiceNow offers solutions for IT service and operations management, the employee and customer experiences, low-code and hyperautomation, and a whole lot more—all built on a single, unifying platform that eliminates silos.

If you think that sounds like a mouthful, you’re not alone. In the tech world, it can be tricky to explain what your company does, especially to nontech family and friends. We put our employees to the test and asked them, “What does ServiceNow actually do?” Watch the video to see their responses...

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds
Co-host: Kristin McDonald 

ServiceNow is a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for IT Service Management (ITSM) Platforms for the ninth year in a row. We also ranked first in all three use cases evaluated in the 2022 Critical Capabilities for ITSM Platforms: Service Desk (3.76/5), Service Operations (3.73/5), and Business Workflow Automation (3.81/5).

We believe these recognitions validate our strategy and direction as we continue to invest in making ServiceNow an enduring platform for a fast-changing world.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Fred Reynolds

It's a new era at XenTegra.  

Today we interviewed our new host Fred Reynolds and found out about his background and experience building out automation and workflows with ServiceNow.

And we had a little fun... Right!

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Moin Kahn
Co-Host: Fred Reynolds