ServiceNow to Become a Native Mobile Enterprise Cloud Platform with Acquisition of SkyGiraffe
October 25 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Acquisition will embed native mobile apps
across ServiceNow portfolio, enabling enterprise customers to
easily give employees consumer-like mobile experiences for any
app
Announcing today an agreement to acquire mobile platform company
SkyGiraffe, cloud-based workflow leader ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) plans
to deliver a truly native mobile enterprise cloud platform. The
acquisition will let ServiceNow customers easily deliver
consumer-like mobile experiences for any application built on the
Now Platform, unleashing greater productivity and convenience for
employees who want to work mobile-first, anytime, anywhere.
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“Our work lives should be as mobile friendly as our consumer
lives,” said CJ Desai, chief product officer at ServiceNow. “With
our native mobile platform approach, ServiceNow intends to make
getting work done anytime, anywhere through great mobile
experiences as easy as hailing a taxi, ordering coffee or booking a
dinner reservation.”
ServiceNow expects SkyGiraffe technology to be embedded in the
Now Platform in 2018, offering all packaged applications in a
native mobile format, including its flagship IT Service Management
(ITSM) product. SkyGiraffe extracts the complexity of enterprise
applications with its intelligent “meta-data” architecture by
converting business processes and manual workflows into an
easy-to-use mobile experience. Because the mobile experience will
be native, ServiceNow will also support offline applications.
ServiceNow also expects that its customers and partners will be
able to build mobile apps in days, not months, utilizing
no/low-code tools and design templates. There will be no need to
write cumbersome code or scripting. Native mobile app experiences
are expected to include maps, live GPS, phone, contacts, email,
rich media and notifications.
“Making our technology native to the ServiceNow platform will
deliver a truly mobile-first approach,” said Boaz Hecht, co-founder
and chief executive officer, SkyGiraffe. “We’re thrilled to be
joining ServiceNow and scaling our technology with one of the
industry’s fastest growing enterprise software companies to create
better mobile work experiences for millions of people
worldwide.”
The company expects to complete the acquisition in Q4 2017.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
This news follows ServiceNow’s acquisition of design studio
Telepathy to enhance the company’s commitment to delivering
outstanding design and consumer-like experiences in its products
and on the Now Platform.
“Together the investments of SkyGiraffe and Telepathy will help
ServiceNow customers better deliver consumer-styled apps to the
devices that they want when it matters most,” Desai said.
More details about the acquisition will be shared today in
conjunction with the ServiceNow third quarter financial results
announcement.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the
expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions and strategies relating to
ServiceNow’s acquisition of SkyGiraffe. Such forward-looking
statements include statements regarding future product offerings;
expected benefits to ServiceNow; and expected financial impact of
the acquisition on ServiceNow. These statements reflect the current
beliefs of ServiceNow and are based on current information
available to the company as of the date hereof. ServiceNow does not
assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements
provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist
after the date on which they were made. The forward-looking
statements in this press release are subject to various risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to
differ materially and adversely from those expressed in such
forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include,
without limitation, the inability to assimilate or integrate
SkyGiraffe technology into our platform; the inability to retain
key employees of SkyGiraffe after the transaction closes;
unanticipated expenses related to SkyGiraffe acquired technology;
potential adverse tax consequences; disruption to our business and
diversion of management attention and other resources; and
potential unknown liabilities associated with SkyGiraffe’s
business.
About ServiceNow
ServiceNow makes work better across the enterprise. Getting
simple stuff done at work can be easy, and getting complex
multi-step tasks completed can be painless. Our applications
automate, predict, digitize and optimize business processes and
tasks, from IT to Customer Service to Security Operations and to
Human Resources, creating a better experience for your employees,
users and customers while transforming your enterprise. ServiceNow
(NYSE:NOW) is how work gets done. For more information,
visit: www.servicenow.com.
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