In the life of a hardware asset, there is only one point when we know for sure we have what we purchased: When we first receive the asset. This hardware asset scenario reminds me being a little kid and playing catch with my neighbor. I would take a new baseball out of the package and throw it over the fence to him. He would catch it and then throw it back. Sometimes he would try to trick me and throw a different ball back over the fence: an old baseball, a softball, and one time a soccer ball.

As an executive your focus is always on delivering the most value from every investment. Value for your customers, and of course value for yourself. Yet there are so many places in the value delivery process where things can – and do – go wrong. The term “value stream” describes the end- to-end process of developing and delivering software to your clients.

I’m excited that ServiceNow has been named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools. We were recognized for our Software Asset Management (SAM) solution, which we believe helps reduce software costs and mitigate license compliance risk with actionable IT insights. We think It’s a great example of how ServiceNow makes work, work better for people. ServiceNow innovates by listening to our customers.

ServiceNow isn’t your typical enterprise software company. Our belief that technology exists in service of people and our founding focus on customer success are just a couple of the things that set us apart. When we make your work lives, work better, we all win.

At ServiceNow, our mission of making the world of work, work better for people, drives everything we do. Returning to work safely remains a priority for businesses across the globe. In only two months since the initial release of the ServiceNow® Safe Workplace Suite, more than 500 organizations have downloaded our Safe Workplace apps. These organizations include Uber, Coca Cola European Partners, State of North Carolina, BankUnited, and AmeriGas.

Implementing change in large organizations is always a challenge, and the City of Copenhagen, with its 45,000 employees, is no exception. Three years ago, we embarked on a journey to implement a central enterprise service management portal using ServiceNow HR Service Delivery. Our objective was to improve the employee experience.

Efficient and productive customer service representatives are a baseline, not a gold standard. A recent Aberdeen report reveals that forward-thinking customer service organizations have developed strategies to directly benefit customers by making engaging with brands more convenient. These companies understand that effortless service experiences create a competitive advantage.

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. and ServiceNow today announced a commitment to each other’s technology solutions to make work-anywhere experiences work even better. With the ongoing pandemic and shelter in place orders Zoom’s usage rocketed to 300 million daily meeting participants in April 2020. Zoom deployed ServiceNow’s Customer Service Management (CSM) to scale its customer service operations and enable critical communications capabilities for its global community.

CareAR announces the availability of its ServiceNow integration, providing an innovative industry solution seamlessly extending enterprise-grade augmented reality (AR) visual support as part of a ServiceNow digital workflow experience.

We measure a lot of our ITSM success through increments of time. But mean time to resolution, time on page in the knowledgebase, and cases-per-hour aren’t just go-to metrics. They set the cultural expectations for our service teams – that improving service times, without sacrificing quality, is paramount.