ServiceNow IT firm surges on IPO, CEO says company is 'wall-to-wall' Apple
IT firm ServiceNow went public on Friday as the company's CEO revealed their operations are "wall-to-wall" reliant on Apple products, including iPhones and MacBooks.
ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman appeared on CNBC Friday to promote his company's IPO. While live on the set, Slootman was asked about the growth of Apple products in the enterprise.
"Our company, we're all Apple, wall to wall," he revealed. "Not just on the iPhone, also our notebooks, laptops and so on."
Slootman was also asked if the enterprise is "embracing Apple in a surprisingly strong way." To that, he responded: "I believe so."
As of late last year, ServiceNow, which is based in San Diego, Calif., had more than 500 employees. The company plans hire another 400 personnel this year, Slootman revealed Friday, nearly doubling in size. The company has doubled its sales for eight years in a row, and has $130 million in recurring revenue.
ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman revealed on Friday his company exclusively uses Apple products.
ServiceNow's initial public offering was up as much as 30 percent on the New York Stock Exchange Friday. It trades under the ticker symbol "NOW."
The IT company was founded in 2003 and is a software-as-a-service provider of IT service management software. Slootman has served as ServiceNow's CEO since 2001.
The company's exclusive use of Apple products is noteworthy as Apple has found recent success in the enterprise, but still hasn't seen the same level of tremendous growth in corporate that it does in
In its quarterly earnings reports, Apple frequently boasts that nearly all Fortune 500 companies are either testing or deploying both the iPhone and the iPad among their employees. Major corporations have also become developers of the iOS platform, and are creating and deploying "mission critical apps" specifically built for their employees, Apple executives revealed in January.
ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman appeared on CNBC Friday to promote his company's IPO. While live on the set, Slootman was asked about the growth of Apple products in the enterprise.
"Our company, we're all Apple, wall to wall," he revealed. "Not just on the iPhone, also our notebooks, laptops and so on."
Slootman was also asked if the enterprise is "embracing Apple in a surprisingly strong way." To that, he responded: "I believe so."
As of late last year, ServiceNow, which is based in San Diego, Calif., had more than 500 employees. The company plans hire another 400 personnel this year, Slootman revealed Friday, nearly doubling in size. The company has doubled its sales for eight years in a row, and has $130 million in recurring revenue.
ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman revealed on Friday his company exclusively uses Apple products.
ServiceNow's initial public offering was up as much as 30 percent on the New York Stock Exchange Friday. It trades under the ticker symbol "NOW."
The IT company was founded in 2003 and is a software-as-a-service provider of IT service management software. Slootman has served as ServiceNow's CEO since 2001.
The company's exclusive use of Apple products is noteworthy as Apple has found recent success in the enterprise, but still hasn't seen the same level of tremendous growth in corporate that it does in
In its quarterly earnings reports, Apple frequently boasts that nearly all Fortune 500 companies are either testing or deploying both the iPhone and the iPad among their employees. Major corporations have also become developers of the iOS platform, and are creating and deploying "mission critical apps" specifically built for their employees, Apple executives revealed in January.
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Not everybody is happy with that news.
Service-Now are in the office the floor below where I work. I thought they were looking happy with themselves this morning!
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Awaiting the inevitable "I love the Mac as much as the next guy, but for complex applications, you gotta use a PC" post...
Where are the "OSX will never be enterprise-ready" pundits?
Good for them. Now, all other IT people need to wake up.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Awaiting the inevitable "I love the Mac as much as the next guy, but for complex applications, you gotta use a PC" post...
"Hey, I mean, I love the Mac as much as any fanboy, but you know, for really, really complex tasks that 98% of business computers are used for, like Word, Excel and .ppt, you really need a PC"
There ya go.
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Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Awaiting the inevitable "I love the Mac as much as the next guy, but for complex applications, you gotta use a PC" post...
I'm awaiting the "where is the update to the Mac Pro? Apple only makes iToys now" whine.
So tiresome.
And their products are terrible!!! We use this product for incident and change request management. It's lousy. The most gawd-awful user interface you can imagine. It's like stepping back into the late 90's.
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Originally Posted by cvaldes1831
I'm awaiting the "where is the update to the Mac Pro? Apple only makes iToys now" whine.
So tiresome.
And the majority of the people who say that have no intention of buying a Mac Pro regardless and most of them probably couldn't even afford one.
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Originally Posted by tylersdad
And their products are terrible!!! We use this product for incident and change request management. It's lousy. The most gawd-awful user interface you can imagine. It's like stepping back into the late 90's.
You've apparently never used Remedy.
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Originally Posted by GQB
You've apparently never used Remedy.
I have. That's what Service Now replaced. It's very poor too. A new browser window for pretty much every task you want to perform, but at least it had ways of grouping the various groups within our IT organization. Service Now just gives you a giant list of groups. For our company, it's thousands.
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Originally Posted by GQB
You've apparently never used Remedy.
We switched from Remedy to Service-Now, and Service-Now is much better.
I love the Mac as much as the next guy, but for complex applications, you gotta use a PC
Almost got me fooled. LOL
But if peoble ask for it ......
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Originally Posted by PaulMJohnson
We switched from Remedy to Service-Now, and Service-Now is much better.
My company used to use ServiceCenter (Peregrine/HP). Now, it uses Tivoli (IBM). They aren't in the cloud.
From what I see in the demo, the Service-Now tool is quite good (better than either ServiceCenter or Tivoli). I wish my company is using this tool.
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Originally Posted by tylersdad
And their products are terrible!!! We use this product for incident and change request management. It's lousy. The most gawd-awful user interface you can imagine. It's like stepping back into the late 90's.
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Originally Posted by bmason1270
"Hey, I mean, I love the Mac as much as any fanboy, but you know, for really, really complex tasks that 98% of business computers are used for, like Word, Excel and .ppt, you really need a PC"
There ya go.
Yeah, they are wall-to-wall Macs. 99% of their staff is in sales and he probably doesn't realize that the actual application as a service is in Windows using .Net (just guessing) which might explain why it seems so clunky.
The line of not being able to run complex applications is bullshit, I've personally worked at the scotford plant close to Edmonton Alberta and seen the walls of Xserves that drive the upgrading infrastructure and facilities, it's awesome.
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Originally Posted by jj.yuan
My company used to use ServiceCenter (Peregrine/HP). Now, it uses Tivoli (IBM). They aren't in the cloud.
From what I see in the demo, the Service-Now tool is quite good (better than either ServiceCenter or Tivoli). I wish my company is using this tool.
Does the cloud make Service Now an inherently better application?