but cute at servicenow knowledge 14 is sponsored by service now here are your hosts Dave vellante and Jeff trick we're back welcome everybody Alan line wind is here he's the vice president and chief technology officer of the cloud platform and infrastructure components of service now all the stuff that you don't see it's sort of behind the curtains all the magic and the secret sauce Alan welcome to the cube thank you very much for everything so what's the what's going on what's new in the in the cloud platform you guys obviously started this before cloud was sort of even referred to yes cloud you know I mean I mean Fred talks about his vision and sore clouds in there but you know really cloud started mid-2000s 2006 and then really started taking off so the latter part of the decade you guys kind of maybe not predated but so the same time you know so what's how was the platform evolved I mean the platform is really evolved during people like to talk about cloud when I think about cloud that's a little bit beyond water vapor so what we end it's been a hard time doing the very early to make silicon and make aluminum actually perform something for our customers the cloud platform has really evolved into being a platform that allows people to develop applications that are either both for IT or for the entire enterprise that's really what we're sort of here to talk about from service now is perspective in this whole show is what we've done on the platform is beyond IT and it can power services for the whole enterprise so we've scaled our cloud significantly we're in eight different regions across the planet 16 different data center locations and we're continuing to grow globally on our cloud right now so these data center locations that you used to you're building out data centers you we're actually using wholesale and retail space so we're using our data center partners and we're building out large cases of infrastructure that we own and operate on our own okay so so just make sure I understand so you're not building mega data centers yeah that's not your strategy that's right can you talk about why that's not strategy yeah I mean we're not building on mega datacenters like maybe they hear from facebook and google or other folks we're actually using our data center partners to build the infrastructure sort of meet our customer needs we don't necessarily host people or do sort of infrastructure services like those guys do we end up doing is we're in a building very specific cloud platforms in restructure for the enterprise it just turns out a footprint for that just isn't as big as other folks and we scale it as we need to do and there's confusion also about and I wonder if you could help us clear it up you're sort of your approach to multi-tenancy let's chat all right so you don't have a multi-tenancy that's remodel you've got more of a hybrid model can you talk about that a little bit and what the advantages are yeah absolutely there's folks that have a multi-tenant model what that really means is that multiple customers data is interlaced and and are intersected with in the same data structures within the same data sounds scary it is and can do that scary but we've actually ended up doing is segmenting both the application logic into virtual machines per customer and then actually dividing up the database itself on a per customer basis or every one of our customers has their own unique database process unique to them their own tables their own data they're on isolation and they have application luggages that's unique to them as well that's very different from multi-tenancy where you have a large database and a large piece of infrastructure that a lot of people share one of the biggest advantages for that for our customers is really about availability if I'm a big huge multi-tenant architecture I need to take all hundreds and hundreds of customers in this pod and move them somewhere else because of a failure that's a scary operation but we actually have the ability to do is move individual customers around our cloud and provide a very high available solution for them because of the fact in the way we've architected so if I'm a customer and and you're on a sales call and you tell me that I'm I good I want that right I'm like totally cool with that I'll tell you something right now if ok now if i'ma we're not quite big enough yet although there's some new products are coming up appeal to us but now if I'm let's say I'm an investor I might say well jeez aren't I going to get better leverage if I go multi-tenancy think Amazon and some of you know larger players also that response to that yeah I mean that's sort of an interesting distinction when people think about multi-tenancy their verses single term see what we call it what you actually find is that they think that the multi-tenancy allows you to scale the hardware better but the truth is what we've done when we actually called multi-instance is a hardware can be shared but the actual customer deployment the Java Virtual Machine the database for that customer is laid down on that shared harders we're actually getting good economics at the hardware and we're giving customers isolation they want we think it's very unique in industry loss is just really exciting things well we heard actually was interesting at oracle openworld which was here i want to say two years ago yeah so it was 2012 maybe was even 2011 was 2011 Ellison really railed on multi-tenancy yeah he railed on work day he railed on on on salesforce and said multi-tenancy is a bad thing you don't want to do it in the application now I think I know 12c changes that I'm not sure I know he did a flip flop Larry does that a lot but um but but your your your your dogma if you will is not going to flip flop rights right you guys got you you can see this am I correct well let me ask you does the scale you know to you know huge Heights that Frank's lubin once they hit yeah I mean we have 11,000 12,000 customer instances in the clouds individual instantiations but let me give you a quick fact here for knowledge we spun out 23,000 additional instances so we have the ability to scale this model in a very dynamic way and a very well orchestrated way we think it really helps our customers one of these I like to say about multi-tenancy is I get why it's good for the cloud provider I get why the folks that build multi-tenancy build it because you're right it you both at once you carve it up or bunch of pieces for a customer customers data is interlaced okay I'm not sure why I want that as a customer customer wants out isolation that's what we provide well giving both leverage of hardware and isolation of data yeah because again a conceptual you can see how there might be some some margin advantages but then then the big question to me a security sure know what kind of what kind of security nuance wants not the right word does it ease the security requirements does it make your security cleaner you know easier to scale replicate etc you talked about that a little yeah I mean it clearly makes our application logic easier because they viewed portion of the application is talking to that individual database instance for that individual customer but our security focus is really focused on protecting those instances from the various threats so we're always looking at threats on the Internet we're always adding our perimeter firewalls we're already doing our third party audits we're doing a penetration test so just like any other cloud provider we're continually updating our security model and making sure we're advancing and trying to stay one step ahead of bad guys but because we have customer data that is segmented and isolated it does make our security model easier and more straightforward for the customer by using a lot of open source in the back end yeah we do do a bunch of my soup of open source for the databases of course right we do a bunch of apology on the front end using Mongo right we are using Mongo to help us get our document store for a larger customers that's right what kind of effect if any did heartbleed have on you guys yeah we looked at heart bleed and we we looked at the effect of it we didn't really see much in effect we weren't using systems are affected by that yeah awesome so Alan we've been covering a lot of data center stuff absolutely and there's a lot of interesting innovation that's happening in the infrastructure we're cooling and our and segmentation and all kinds of interesting things where's the line of innovation in the data center between your stuff and the infrastructure provided that you're working with yeah so we spend a lot of time actually focused on the actual sort of server platform storage platform communication between the web servers in the network we don't spend a lot of time on maybe hot aisle containment or cold out containment worried about you know efficiency of the building or air flow through the building we spend a lot of time sort of utilizing the best practices there so we go look for our data center providers that are really driving that peewee number down to the level 10 level but we're not architecting the building we'll look for those providers and then we'll deploy our equipment in a way that takes advantage of that you know we're following and using some of the practices from local compute we're looking at the next generation networking hardware and networking software that's out there and we're really sort of leveraging everything that they're building on the data center itself and then I know there's a lot of data data regulations that are driving kind of the location of your data centers or where he says you have 16 that's right they're basically at eight locations double located that's where if I recall a country's yeah yep so there's still some some open area that you need to penetrate based on customer and demand that you haven't gone yet or where the next one's going to be yeah we're going to build with the customers ask us to build we built into Switzerland and Geneva and Zurich because of that we built in a Canada for data sovereignty issues we're building into Brazil we're building in Asia right now Hong Kong and Singapore so we're going to kind of go over the customer demand takes us oh it's a big question on on Germany and this came up actually we're at the AWS reinvent we did the age of aw our summit and Amazon doesn't have a data center in Germany sure don't have a data we do not turn out right but of course everybody knows german law but everybody knows but but the the sort of urban legend is German losses you got a store data in Germany when we asked amazon this they said well we have a location in ireland that's part of the EU is that a similar response that you guys track we have amsterdam and london and we serve the EU countries ramps down so if I'm a German customer I would store my data there yeah right I mean that would be the default I mean we actually might have a German customer that want to be in the US but we actually had our customers pick which region of the world that want to be deployed in and we deploy on their behalf in there that's a prerequisite of going through the process right you use wage in a store your data that's right and then that's a sales guys figure that out so I so I asked actually i'll ask you as well the Amazon perspective has that ever been tested you know in the court of law do we actually know that this stands up cuz you always hear so much from the the anti amazon crowd oh well you can't choose where your data is stored that's not true certainly not true with you that's right and Germany Brazil very strict they actually have a location in Brazil but but so are you comfortable that it's consider compliant with German law and in this instance do you have those conversations or customers I mean obviously you do business in Germany yeah i mean i'll say my last name is Austrian German but I'm not well-versed in German like everything people tell me I know we can deploy and it's always a good answer without a lawyer okay I am NOT a liar but it's not stopping sales right not something i mean i've seen this again there's so much chatter and noise out there yeah but none of those misperceptions people like to throw that thought out there they like to say you can't do business I haven't had that objection I'm sure we may run into it but right now it's not top of mind good it was interesting it at a pro Conal i would actually had a lawyer on Richard on every often on the Cuban he said you know there's even different data laws in Massachusetts from Connecticut you know Mike well where is the data I mean especially the cloud and is distributed you're talking about across state borders and it hasn't really been challenged and it apparently it hasn't yet or it's going to get really nasty because cloud just by its very nature stuffs distributed that's right it's replicated it's all over the place so it's everywhere from so everybody uses Germany but he was talking about the difference between two borders border states so it could be interesting at some point in time should we talked earlier about my sequel was really was surely the the data platform that you started that's right and then Mongo came in recently didn't it within a year or two we end up doing is we we deploy the master database so the reads and writes in my sequel we also have capabilities in the platform that when we start to scale the hardware we can add what's called we replicas so we can add sort of versions of my sequel that can take transactions that are read-only and then for people that have large document stores you're doing attachments are doing forums are doing images things are really document-based we can actually deploy Mongo and then we can use Mongo for that particular type of transaction in that system as well so that's what you use in long ago that's okay that wasn't clear to me and that's relatively new initiative is it not yeah came out in Calgary which was last year was that release right okay member i'm talking about it last year i think it at no 13 that's right okay so what's what's next for you guys you know behind the curtain which I it's not really behind the curtain many customers would say if I'm hurting right now that's it but you guys didn't you know it's not like is this is a mean well I guess it is party in marketing but you know you don't be talking about products you're talking about value but it's great we have an opportunity to speak to guys like you actually you know running the factory right yeah so what's next what's what a customer is asking for what are the innovations that you guys are working on yeah i think what customers are really asking for is for us to take the cloud platform in the infrastructure and really to evolve it to be that hardened highly available persistent you know people want to talk about the cloud being like electricity being always on we obviously strive for that but like any other business we we have issues you know hardware does go break and we does booming overnight we have to make sure we perfect it we're constantly tuning that we're focused very much on availability you'll see something tomorrow we're actually going to show customers their individual availability as opposed to this sort of larger distributed availability if you will talk about we're also looking into more automation so that way things that generally break that we now have humans intervene with we want to have that automation kick off automatically and then have people automatically have have the machines do that automatically instead of the humans and we're spending a lot of time just really focused on keeping the cloud alive keeping the cloud available and making sure it is kind of behind the curtain yeah invisible is always good right you know I asked Fred this morning and I'll ask you cuz I didn't fully grasp the answer and I want to want to get pressing at this fred was maybe a little over my head or was i don't know maybe I just didn't get it but so the question I had is so you're not really like the mega data center right we talked about earlier you're not like Amazon or Facebook or Google but you know you're growing you could you're getting to a scale that's quite large and you can you can see you know the future you could be very very large today you've got you know n number of applications it's not overwhelming and the question I ask for fred was working a sort of architecture question in database than the database world you've got transactions you're locking on the database the record that's one one application says I got it and then releases it then the next one has it as you grow out the applications my question the fred was does that become problematic do you get no queuing problems performance issues scale issues and he said his answer if I could summarize and I hope I get this right was especially we're not a heavy locking environment and so on number two there's a lot of other things that go on engagements that go on outside of that lock so you didn't see it as a challenge because of the nature of the applications and and I guess the architecture itself but as you grow to massive scale does that potentially become a problem have you architected around that do you have to architect around that or am I just not understanding it yeah i mean i think if we were multi-tenant where we had thousands of customers sharing a single database doing with those locking issues and the similar issues we'd have that issue but fortunately because every customer gets their own version of their own unique database they're just worried about the applications that they're running so what we end up doing is going to monitoring the hardware and monitoring the databases for transaction rates per customer and as this transaction rates per customer as they add applications as they add users as they're adding joins and lists and building forms and creating services like Fred talked about this morning we can actually find out if their database is starting to see issues and if their particular database to start to see issues we can then go to point B but because we can go deploy things like Mongo on a customer by customer basis so we don't have this Gale issue per se we have the monitor the individual customer transaction rate issue and make sure we're always automating and always upgrading the infrastructure to match yeah ok so you've obviously thought about this problem and the customer has to be quite large to even encounter the problem that's right and then you've got methods techniques approaches even I don't even call it brute force approaches we can we can solve it more silica there are cases where the bigger box wins right yeah Moore's Law wins you can you can add more metal to the clouds so and you can make a bigger so the point of all the reason I'm asking all these questions is not just for sort of you know academic or theoretical cures is there is this a potential constraint to your growth down the road and I'm hearing no it's not yeah we don't see it as a constraint some of our biggest customers are running very very large transaction rates regular scale both the core metal to actually drive those transactions as well as tune the system and tune the way the database behaves that way those interactions you're talking about those locks those joins or select statements can actually be handle by the system in a very efficient manner and what do you make of all this you know it's sort of started at at vmworld a year or so ago with the whole software-defined meme and the acquisition of nice Sarah software-defined networking now they're talking about software-defined storage you certainly see that from the hyperscale guys what do you make of that is that is that how does that affect your world well you're talking to guy that actually worked on a software-defined networking company I founded a company called viata in my path to know Coach brocade actually bought right so I believe in the sufferer Defined Networking I believe that software and algorithms running the metal makes a lot of sense our automation our workflow orchestration tools we have on the platform are what we use to bend our metal in the way we like for our customers and I think really putting logic into the software and learning a software actually change the infrastructure is the way for the future and so thinking about your storage and your network and yours your compute infrastructure you're sort of buying off the shelf that's right standard servers are you buying from ODMs or a combination we do we'd a little both we actually look at our servers on an annual basis we evaluate both ODMs that are in white boxes as well as your typical OEMs and then we're looking to understand the transaction rates and the performance of those particular pieces of hardware we do a price performance evaluation and we sort of upgrade and continue to migrate the farm forward and how about the storage and you buying big giant containers or not as big sands we're not so its commodity storage it's chemist or horizontally scaled across the service we don't believe in centralized storage model no fiber channel no InfiniBand no fiber to know and your stack is your stack our stack is on you've written your own stack to do replication and data migration and run app shots the replication side is actually using my sequel binlog replication okay the backup itself is actually using some open source tools as well as some technologies you stuck on top of it we actually call it sm vault for servers no vault and we've actually developed both a hybrid of open source and our own technologies to make that work do you use tape we do not use tape no tape no euro tape yeah i think frankly i'm not surprised Frank salute with the kind of it yeah and what about the networking what's the strategy there yeah from the networking point of view we use commodity here as well from you know the big two vendors out there cisco and juniper we're continually looking to upgrade we're continually looking to drive layer through technologies down close to the user and have a very reliable very done system let me give you an example in every data center cage location we have at least three tier one providers we have a fully read on the network all the way from the internet through the firewalls through the little answers all the way down to the servers in the rack and we just believe a high-availability enterprise-grade top the bottom and and what about this notion of converged infrastructure you're seeing that a lot is that's something that you're you're looking at you're staying away from you're adopting or we actually think it makes a lot of sense you know I'm not going to tell you we're doing it right now because it's it's pretty bleeding edge and we want to be highly available for the enterprise but this idea of a converged network and systems infrastructure that works together with automation again it's just part of our platform part of our DNA so kind of a single throat to choke and yeah reduce passed me at Pat patch management just a block of infrastructure that that's sensible for you absolutely i mean from our point of view the ServiceNow cloud platform would be that orchestration and automation this is like filled day for me being able to ask of a practitioner that's that's actually building out a big animatic cloud you know sounds awesome and okay well let's see so we hit on s the end we are you here on all the pieces here i guess i think i'm out i think i think i'm thinking about anytime you want yeah that's fantastic i really appreciate the insights you know cuz you know a lot of the lot of the cloud suppliers don't like to talk about you know the internal plumbing but i think it's important you know your customers want to know i mean at the end of the day you don't build a great you know multi-billion dollar business without understanding how infrastructure works in the architecture of the infrastructure I'm a really strong believer that our applications are driving Enterprise forward and I'd have a hard time talking to the cios I talked to you on a regular basis without convincing them but the infrastructure they are relying on for those applications is as solid as it gets do you see the need I do have another one so do you set the need you know remember the early days we all lose I all thought okay here's here comes you know guys like Amazon its commodity infrastructure software lead that's going to lead into the enterprise you're starting to see that happen now but now Amazon's kind of done a one-eighty that's right they're going highly customized infrastructure there's they won't show us their servers but they'll show us so you know no some odm server that's super dense and they say we blow that away because they control their data centers do you see that type of customization requirement for your servers and for your free for your networking we spend time looking at that as well I won't say perhaps we do it quite in-depth as Amazon don't run quite the same size farm they do but we do look at you know the motherboards and the PCI cards and this the the flash disk that's in there the SSD we spend time understand the bios we spend the time understanding how many ports were going to connect to the top Iraq switch we spend time specking all that I mean we're full heart and enterprise platform and our customers depend on us to do that so we have to we have to do that diligence are you using fun all right we still got time are you using flash how are you using it yeah we are using flash we find that the flash arrays we use fusion-io and for those s SD cards we put them into our higher-end database servers from moving actually off spinning media onto flash for the entire farm and one of the way we use it is it helps us get I ops out of the database servers and it actually helps in replication because the way replication works is I'm operating data center a I do my transaction in that database I write it out to the flash because the database is in memory I send it over the parasite the parasites gotta read it off disc and rerun that transaction and keep that replication in sync so that I oh actually does help us keep replication going so using percona my sequel or no no okay so do you raising are on my signal okay do you do atomic rights with fusion we are doing some rights for fusion yes yeah okay so you're essentially bypassing the scuzzy stack and writing directly to we have ability to do that with a new fusion on your driver so I'm not sure they're widely deployed it does it have potential absolutely not it's an amazing performance you can go straight from memory straight to SSD just like you're acting a ram chip why wouldn't we want to not only am I limiting the spinning disk I'm eliminating the overhead of the the storage protocol we'd love to be able to do that yes okay that's understanding the life of the flash / David's lawyers article that we covered the other day because I written specifically for flash as opposed to written for disk how about object stores that's something that you you know we generally don't have a ton of object stores that we do but when we do their document types are attachments to an incident their graphics on a particular application they're part of a workflow that pops up or resent something to the customer and if that is sort of documents become heavy transactional types for reads in the database put those on Mongo okay so and you're doing sort of a combination of block and file or it's all blocked it's all block all block okay well file except I guess what you doing in manga course violence or quasi object that's right awesome I'm having a field day I really appreciate all the insights you know it's this is good i'm actually any the second watch this several times i mean i mean the truth is for us it's all about like i said it's all about talking about folks about infrastructure we think the infrastructure is the core foundation for everything we do in the enterprise apps the apps are really what our customers are about letting them be creators and letting them do our applications but let's face it you know we build the cloud and the club's got to be solid to run those apps my last question so you we've been talking about all these cool innovations when do you see these or do you see these seeping into the the enterprise on-premise do you see that as a sort of viable approach for CIOs or or in your view are they just going to sort of outsourced it mostly to the cloud over the next decade I'm pretty clearly biased at the moment but you know I over your application driven we're talking about infrastructure fair enough from the side I mean I think the things that we're doing in the cloud and the infrastructure are sort of leading-edge I do you think the enterprises are going to adopt that but I'll be honest you there are certain enterprises are ahead of us right there are certain folks that are thinking one or two steps ahead of us because rat just a bigger scale than we are almost though yeah not most but there are some we've learned from them in their banks and yeah i'm thinking the big banks the big big financial institutions we spend time with them learning what they're doing inside so we can actually make the cloud better and they're sharing with you okay absolutely because they're trying to learn too yeah they're ready one happens to somebody that's running on bailing wire right yeah that's amazing innovations actually going on in financial services and it's like the the downturn ever happened yeah well thanks very much for five years all right great stuff keep it right there buddy Jeff Rick and I'll be right back we're live from 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but cute at servicenow knowledge 14 is sponsored by service now here are your hosts Dave vellante and Jeff Creek we're back hi everybody this is Dave vellante with Jeff Frick we're here live at knowledge 14 this is service now it's big customer event about 6,600 people up from about four thousand last year as we've been saying it's kind of tracking the growth of service now which has been pretty meteoric we heard from Mike scarpelli the CFO Frank's loot men they're really doubling down and it's exciting to see we're here in San Francisco where all the action is Jeffrey Moore is here author consultant pundits all-around smart guy cube alum greatly again thank you here so um so you're speaking at the CIO decisions i love the fact that they got so many CIOs here who real CIA a lot of times these conferences you get to you know the infrastructure guys but so what's the vibe like over there well you know it's kind of cool because if you think about service now and you go back to say 10 years this was all about how to make IT more productive around the ITIL model and you know and you'd use these automated services to do this stuff what's happening and Frank nailed it in the keynote he said look this infrastructure can be turned inside out and you can service enable the entire enterprise not just IT need a service enterprise you know HR you can decision a marketing eight-day any other shared service you can turn into a bunch of services that you can sort of call in and use service now as a platform so so the cios it was all about well that that's a different that's a different vision and so how do we map from the old way of sort of thinking about this is an internal productivity facility to this new way of saying no this is an enterprise enablement platform that's a big that's a big move a little bit like Salesforce going to force calm that same flavor yes sir frank's keynote was talking about how the CIO has to become you know more business savvy and of course we've heard that a lot for years and years and years but in fact a number of the folks that we've had on here at the service now are actually of that hill maybe they came from the business but most CIOs didn't necessarily come from the business they weren't P&L managers they weren't running sales do you see that changing yeah I think what happened in the 20th century was IT was sufficiently complex that frankly you had to be a technical person to do it it just it was just really hard and and yes you needed business consultants but the end of the day you needed ten percent business consultants and ninety percent technical people I think we've come a long way since then in the next generation of stuff is more around systems of engagement these things that that communicate with each other as opposed to systems of record and so the profile the winning IT strategy is migrating from help us run information about our business in the back office to help us actually re-engineer the dynamics of our business in the world in the present and that's like going from from data to behavior them it's a big we call it going from systems of record to systems of engagement it's a big show and is that that transition in your mind is very disruptive so what happens to all those purveyors and buyers of systems of engagement to they morph into obsessive record do they morph into systems of engagement do they just get blown away no it's interesting so so so first of all you're never going to get rid of your systems of record but at the margin we've probably extracted most of the lifetime value from that investment already so you need to maintain them and so the industry is consolidating a round of an anchor set of vendors who we trust to do that but the growth is going to be like if you look at systems of engagement we might have gotten five percent of the lifetime value there so at their margin if you have a dollar to spend people want to spend it in there so the challenge of being an incumbent is I'm not going to lose my base but man the growth is happening over here so the real challenge for that for the incumbent vendors is how can i participate in the new world and still maintain my relationships in the old world whereas the new guys are just coming and saying i don't i'll leave the old world of you guys i just want to play over here i can get your take on the structure of the IT business is you've observed as have i sort of these disruptions and these changes over time so obviously we went from being framed at pc you saw that the competitive line started to get more disintegrated yes i could use that that term a competition occurred on those I see that Intel's ascendancy in Microsoft and Oracle the best database companies the emc was the storage company and everything was sort of you know siloed and but leadership the leadership matrix has largely stayed intact I mean even IBM and okay HP said its ends up and down but it's largely stayed intact do you see the cloud changing that fundamentally changing the economic yes I think yes I think what happened is so in the client server error we did we built the stack what you're just described and every layer of the stack had a leader now I think since 2000 y2k that stack is being compressed meaning there are fewer and fewer vendors that are still in the in that in that leadership cadre and as we go to like cloud and computing the service you start saying well yeah i still have cisco in there i still have IBM in there but maybe i'm buying them as a service rather than as a set of equipment so you kind of can feel that world just I think compressing this look is the right word and where is the experimentation the opportunity to sort of find new places to go to it's very much in this world outboard of the IT data center where it it is about engaging engaging with your customer engaging with your employee engaging with your supply chain and using mobile things and social and you know analytics and cloud and all these new technologies the freedom to do that is is actually outboard of the of the old style I show you what you described as sort of an oligopoly and you've got these big whales and I've always asking you know guys who follow this it are we going to see somebody to disrupt that Amazon is the obvious you have to go to them a three billion dollar you know company growing at sixty percent a year with marginal economics of services that look like software yep but at the same time it's okay they've got this huge lead but it doesn't just make sense to me that it's sustainable I mean because hardware economics never will go to 0 so you would think that somebody was almost like the IBM early pc days remember IBM heavily yep we're domin to play that's kind of what kind of way amazon is now do you do you see that you see more competition from amazon why is it that they don't have direct competition so the less of the last book i wrote in the last the thing i've been working on most recently is around why is it so hard for the established incumbents to catch the next wave and the problem is so you look at why amazon's why is Amazon so unopposed in many of its initiatives well their business model in the economic model is completely divorced from the incumbent model and so you look at the incumbent in there going it's not that I don't see what the guys are doing I get what they're doing I just don't see how I can get my investors or my my whole infrastructure on to that new place in my example that was code at so you know Antonio Perez came from HP he knew what he was getting into he understood digital everybody at Kodak understood digital but they couldn't get to the other place so in this it would call it escape velocity how do you free yourself from your own paths and you you really do have to take a pretty dramatic approach to it and I think by the way i think i'm looking at microsoft in particular i think it I think Microsoft's going to give a very very big run at doing it and but I think that they're still more the exception than the rule you would wish that every one of those vendors would say look you know because every CIO here if any of those vendors came to him and said hey we're going to really try to play here will you help they'd say yes they don't want to change their relationships but but we get trapped in these business models and then you sort of grind and you grind and grind and after a while it's like well man you've just ground yourself to do I owe the classic label Christensen right individuals dilemma and it also makes a question is d said David's been the same characters kind of changing companies had not Jeff Bezos and Amazon come in with a completely different model to drive cloud with the other people who still has to transfer so they want to give credit to you want to bet it to be so so you want to give credit to Benioff by the way Benioff has been has been the kind of prow of a ship that brings in the illusory at work day brings in netsuite brings in service service now you know so the software-as-a-service thing is coming in at one level and remember if you were an on-premise guy it's very very how many years did did SI p commit an enormous amount of money to say we're going to have a great cloud offering and it just it's so hard so so it is so and then you're looking now at this sort of this next layer of collaborative IT and you're seeing box and octant hang all these cool thing and analytics and splunk consumer logic and all these companies going really I mean I you know I mean if your fear of my age is like okay you have a t-shirt they got love to you think I'm a teacher but but but the point is this free space and they're saying there's these cool problems to solve we're not encumbered by any of the legacy we're going to race ahead and so if you're a CIO well we spent most of our time with the cios today was ok i have established set of relationships here i'm not going to abandon them but at the margin i need them to help me think about the future I thought these really start sparkly new startups some i'm sure not going to exist next year but some are going to be the leaders so how play that game right now and and the pressure it's putting on the IT organization is the people I know that are good at this are not the people that are good at this and so how do I so we had to talk about talent and how do you manage and how do you create career paths and and is it or do you have a infrastructure officer vs an innovation office I'm it was all around that same prob right and then oh by the way there's Hadoop and mobile and big data and some of these other just open source innovations that are being just thrown all these guys played it is so from a technology plate from a technology play if you're technologists it's like bring it on right but I think the interesting thing is and most of my career aighty was about the business so you ran a business and you had IT systems which gave you information about your business what's happened in the last 15 years is that more and more sectors of the economy i T is becoming the business so you saw what happened the newspapers in facilitate with IT isn't about the newspaper business IT is displacing the newspaper business Google is displaced in the media business amazon is displacing retail you know mobile banking is displacing banking Airbnb uber I mean this so there we have the taxi guys are worried them it and so you start saying it isn't IT isn't about the business it's a digital world and and so all of us and that was it i think that was probably at the core of the discussion so which cio am i what do I have permission to be would do my colleagues get this you know am I competent to do it if they do I mean you've talked about this a lot and you've given a number of examples so so was nicked car just dead wrong in 2003 or just to a narrow it is to keep what he was saying I believe is that systems of record okay are dead I think at that time by the way it wasn't obvious there was anything else because it no serious i can remember to you know the whole venture community kind of abandoned itv4 about researcher ivan on 101 yeah it was and even in the end even in the physical infrastructure there's still the idea is the basis of the competitive and about the reporting system yeah and i think this issue about so i think there's still a few businesses we're really IT still is about the business and you know what you can kind of stick with whatever you were doing you'll be okay but if your business is under an existential threat meaning the new IT model eviscerates your business model which arguably you could say all those both those incumbent stack vendors you know I mean cloud does eviscerate the on-premise hardware data center business model which was the fundamental foundation of IT as I knew it for all my business career and now all this it's like holy how do i how do i how do I deal with it so we talk about Amazon as a potential you know new you know big whale Salesforce is obviously he's got it but they've been around since 99 there's going to be exception mm-hmm proves the rule I don't maybe a service now or a workday you know we'll see if this market is big enough it looks like it it might be what often happens is they these guys let's get gobbled up or Larry Ellison writes a check you say these to denigrate people who write write checks not code I think the biggest matter and they got such mass never was afraid to reinvent himself change the game change the dynamics of the industry so do you think we will see a another big player and where will that comfort will it be the SAS guys will it be the sum of the guys out of the hadoop world what I don't think it will so here here's what I don't think will work I don't think you can be an established incumbent vendor under this compression power and write a check and get yourself back I think what happens when you write a check if you just bring a hot property into cold molecules and it loses its exactly exactly so I don't think that will work I think if you want to be one of these incumbents and succeed over here you have to actually pull part of your own DNA and capability and we literally just jump and then I think you can acquire it to it to build a thing there but what Larry did was he consolidate he basically was the first guy to figure out Nick Carr is right I need to buy up all the properties yep and brother George ball and run a maintenance business which by the way came to read and Georgia computer associates had that play up in the eighties it's the same play with this is a different plan well I love what you say in emc is an interesting one to watch the way to chi is setting up this Federation with pivotal and VMware you know who see we'll see what happens with the quarry NC and I think VI 3 of 8 yeah I think that that is I mean VMware's one of the wonderful examples of think we're a company did not cause the hot molecules become the cold molecules the thing you wonder there though is it feels a little bit like a like a holding company if you will and so and by the way vmware is in a curious tweener right like they kind of were the most they made the old stack incredibly productive so in some sense they can feel like they're part of the old world right they're probably the newest kid on the old world but then you think well yeah but I want to look at their plan now they want to be into software-defined networks they wanted me to software-defined data centers they definitely want to play over here and what it's in this case so state partners Wow one could argue that that was it because of what big in the cloud virtualize computing absolutely absolutely so what're you working on these days that's exciting well so that I think this issue of working with management teams to say okay look this is a self-imposed exile that we're putting ourselves under you know we get it i'll call it the Kodak problem because I don't want to talk about anybody in high tech specifically at the moment but the point is every management team in the established vendor group puts itself on a self imposed discipline to make you know certain kinds of eps things certain kinds of growth you know whatever it is the expectations of their investors and you look at the situation you say guys that is a slope glide path to extinction we all know that and by the way off the record they know it's no it's not that that is this is not a failure of it like this is a failure of will so then the question is well so how do you negotiate a different path and part of it is you have to make you have you have to be able to tell a story of your investors part of it is you have to negotiate a different operating model inside the company and what they've done so far is they said well okay we've got our established businesses and we've got our innovative businesses and we know enough to keep them apart so that part is not the problem and they actually come up with cool stuff the the moment of truth is when can you scale any of these innovative businesses to compete to actually be a material part of your historical portfolio meaning in my terminology at least ten percent of your total revenue going to twenty percent in what happens in that journey is it a key point you have to draw on the resources of your established business and all the people that make their living and they're compensated on getting the next quarter in the next quarter go guys I can't make the quarter and do this and you've got it you've got to find a way to say you know if we don't figure out a way to pull some of that resource over here and play our next hand will invent everything in the world but we'll never get it to scale and so there's there's a bunch of stuff around business model planning and then Investor Relations organizational development it's all around saying and the key there's two key ideas idea number one is it's a go-to-market problem not an RD problem you do not have an innovation problem you can't get your thing to market and the second cool idea is you can only do one of the time and everybody says well but give have the risk to so high you got a three or four or five of these things maybe want to work it's like know the sacrifice is so great if you put two or more horses in the race people people won't even run so the other one that's a focus and don't it's ok not to make the quarter that's like on American looking like michael dunn right i mean that's obsessively what he's hoping to be able to do and i think one of the reasons you see people go private is to say i can't play this game bye-bye normal public company protocol i mean i like to but i can't get there from here now i actually don't think every company ought to have to go private to do this but i think they do have to change their playboys all right Jeff we have to leave it there hey great to see you thank you very much me feel smarter just hanging out with you right there buddy we'll be right back after this is the cube you

but cute at servicenow knowledge 14 is sponsored by service now here are your hosts Dave vellante and Jeff Creek we're back this is Dave vellante with Jeff Frick we're here live at moscone south and we're covering wall-to-wall this knowledge conference service now transforming IT from a cost center into a value producer services is the the tip of the spear service oriented businesses we're seeing this notion of a single cmdb as a single data model as a very powerful concept and one that the majority of companies don't have today but the ones that are moving in that direction are definitely transforming in a way that is pretty meaningful Brad Powell is here he's the vice president of internal customer technologies that merits a customer of service now Brad welcome back to the queue good thank you it's good to be here so you are speaking at this event right absolutely what's your topic IT evolution so taking IT to the next level okay so before we get it to that tell us a little bit about your company you know you roll what you've been doing you know the last since we last talked sure absolutely well we're actually going through a huge cultural shift inside of merits right now and it's all about the people right IT needs to realize that we're really a service based organization now and so that's really hard for people to grasp right we talk about i.t changing all the time and when IT people here that they think moving from one technology to a new technology this time it's completely different it's all about the people so we're asking the IT people to change and be more like sales people to really sell the services that it's-- offering and that's difficult for them so I'm really driving that inside America's culture from an organization perspective to really get out in front of it and solve real people needs you know we talk about business needs it's really people needs that we need to solve and so that's what I've been up to so what are some of the secrets because we that keeps coming up over and over that is going to change and like it its people and probably love we're getting out of their comfort zones oh absolutely are they reset you know how receptive are they really i think you know you have some people that are receptive some people that aren't but they have to get out of there there there East their comfort right to be able to do this and what it really takes is you got to step back and look at the bigger picture right this is kind of where tools come in IT has always been this kind of working on request working on incidents tracking it in that way those metrics are really are useless to our customers because we are trying to prove our existence by numbers they don't care right they carry solving my problems right so we have to transition them out and that's where you bring tools in because what you're able to do is automate those activities right and anytime that you're freeing up from them that's when you take them out and move them into the business actually sitting with the business to understand and listen to what they're saying so that they can solve those business needs so that's what you have to do and it is very uncomfortable for IT I always think about the old saturday night live skit I don't know if you guys remember it but it had the IT people and they call right and they'd say here can you solve this and you'd say click here do this do this and they move and then they jump out of the way and he'd slam on the keyboard and fix it right that's the old IT that's the old silo die team we don't have that anymore now we need to listen become that sales become brokers of services it's interesting you talk about you know sales itea sales people I had we had one of the guests on Martha hella actually said generally IT people are not great salespeople they undersell mom now now part of the issue is a sales person you want a hot product right we got a hot product that you're really proud of then it's easier mm-hmm to sell so I guess the question is how has your product evolved in the last you know in years and and what have been the drivers so the product how you need to evolve you know when you're started talking about tools is ease of use that is going to be the number one selling for your customers of IT above anything else so if I can give the customer solution like they get it at home you know if they have a problem they google it they look it up they fix it themselves so you need to really take that to the next level and sell that where you bring the people in to get them engaged is they know the back-end technology in order to make that happen and so they get excited about that and then what you need to do is put people in front of them to really sell that to the business I'm talking marketing slicks I'm talking everything that's where you need to do really so you guys are doing collateral yeah we have to be able to sell your IT services I mean that's what it's all about we are transitioning to a service based culture one hundred percent and you know you brought up a good point there are a lot of people that just can't make that transition it doesn't mean that we don't need them anymore what it does mean though is you need to really focus their efforts in a certain area and then put that customer facing sales oriented people out in front of the customers so what was the contribution of service now to this transformation was it you know a little small piece of it was it the you know the other end of the spectrum the reason why was it the key enabler talk about them yeah well when you look at it and this is you know coming back to from a tools discussion is what you want to do is you want to be able to free up that it's-- time right in order to do that you need to automate in order to automate you need tools to automate which is the orchestration pieces and things like that of service now so that is actually enabler for us to free up the time to get in front of the businesses to be able to sell our services so that was a really big step in the right direction the other thing is ticketing systems of the past were just really used to track things right that's not the case anymore you don't just track things with IT ticketing systems now what you want to do is actually use it to sell your service okay so you have to build your catalog you have to build all those services in such a way that's easy to use like an Amazon things like that so that you can really sell those services and that's where the tools come in so it's actually twofold it frees up your IT people's time in order for them to get in front of business and then you need to use it to sell and get out of IT get into facilities management get into HR management all of those different things are huge and really it's like an upsell for IT well Brad that's really interesting because the research that we've done it with you gone so you started with problem management and change management like most service now customers but the research we've done at Wikibon when we asked people about moving to transforming to IT as a service and do you know service catalogs and what the biggest challenges what they tell us is that the hardest part is aligning with the business figuring out what the business needs aligning with those business needs developing those service catalogs in a way that resonates right the business so if I heard you correctly you're saying you started with problem and change management and all the sort of blocking and tackling and then that freed up resources for you guys to actually go and talk to the wallets of that dragon ization that's right you have to automate those activities that you do day in and day out from an incident change perspective and that frees up your staff to actually go sit with the business and listen and learn and that's a skill set that you have to teach your IT people but it's an important skill set because if you can put the eye teeth workforce actually with the business they'll hear the problems that they're facing and start to work through that with them and that's a win-win for everybody so I gotta ask you was culturally how did you achieve this of this transformation was it we was a situation where the the IT staff was sort of clamoring for this did you have to drag them kicking and screaming you know changes is often times not easy sometimes it's it's welcome but but often times it's not so how were you able to affect that that change from a cultural standpoint you know that that's a very good question and it wasn't easy I'll be honest with you it's a very difficult transition because you're changing people you know it's not too little thing like that so what you do is you find those things that motivate those right the real geeks of IT what do they want to do they want to automate they want to build those back-end systems so drive them towards that okay so that that gets them motivated and starting from the cultural shift and besides that you know they want to be innovative they really do if you talk to any IT guy they want to be innovative they want to make a difference it's just guiding them along path and it takes a lot of work to change a culture like that but it's so important and without it your IT organizations just aren't going to make it you know you have those people like your database administrators your system administrators that are set and siloed in their ways that's just the old IT you know though they need to go to cloud providers may be in work because you know they're still there still doing that type of activity but your corporate business now it's going to be service providers and that's how you need to make them change and understand that so a couple of questions so one is how are the business people receiving this new you know almost of pairing it sounds like with with IT folks and then to from the IT perspective what do they think about Amazon what do they think about shadow IT you know are they pissed about it are they happy to have something to combat it are they you know we just can't compete there they're working at a different speed than we are you know I this is one of the things I always talk about in my presentations at maritz is we don't I T in the future doesn't compete we complement and that's where you need to do so if you're putting a lot of your servers in the cloud and an Amazon or Azure build a portal and make it easy for your customers to do it too you're complimenting those services that's where I T needs to go is more of a complementing factor and the business are they liking it absolutely because we're solving real business problems they actually are getting there faster than I T right think about it when you go home you fix your own issues you go to the store it's easy its quick right you are driving the customers of I tier driving this cultural shift IT needs to catch up and get get going in this direction today excellent so let me get one more if I know we're getting light on time but I remember one of the highlights of knowledge 13 was the brad vegas movie where I think you hit every single venue up and down the strip from the from the airport to the Grand Canyon so I'm curious have they taken you out for the streets of San Francisco they have not taken me out for the streets of San Francisco but that was quite a life-changing event I tell you we hit every stop in Vegas you name it we were there and luckily they cut you know they didn't show the whole video they cut sections out that maybe was a little too risky we got to find that video we'll put it up on our playlist because it's certainly a must-see TV that cruise around San Francisco of a lot less interesting oh yeah you never know this is early yeah I Lombard Street whoo I hype 4head listen thanks very much for coming Lee anytime great to see you thank you so much I keep right there everybody would react with our next guest we're live from 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but cute at servicenow knowledge 14 is sponsored by service now here are your hosts Dave vellante and Jeff trick okay we're back this is Dave vellante with Jeff Frick were here live at moscone south and this is the knowledge 14 conference 6600 people here growing was about 4,000 last year you seen this conference grow and about the same pace as a services service now stop line they're growing at sixty percent plus on pace to do over 600 million in revenue this year on pace to be a billion-dollar company and we have the CFO here Mike Scarpelli cube alum Mike great to see you again thank you so this is amazing I mean Moscone is a great venue of the aria last year's kind of intimate you know and now you're really sort of blowing it out I would expect next year you're going to be in the into the big time of conferences well I got a budget for that Tiffany I'm a budget I know it's going to cost more just like the attendance is going up fifty sixty percent the costs are going up as well too but our partners are really important and our partners offset a lot of those costs will get over eight million in sponsorship revenue to offset that so when we expect next year will see a corresponding increase in the sponsorship revenue as well well it's impressive you have a lot of strong partners particularly the system integrator consultancy types you know we saw I hope it will miss somebody definitely saw sent you there last night we start Ernie young giving a presentation k p.m. ET le is about so cloud sherpas yeah the cloud shippers and so we had them on earlier she have a lot of these facilitators which is a great sign for you and they're realizing okay there's there's money to be made around the ServiceNow ecosystem helping customers implement so that's going to make you really happy no you know one of the things that's really important for us with the system integrators is today they haven't really brought us any deals but they've been very influential in accelerating deals and we think that theme is going to continue and based upon what they're seeing they're able to do in the ServiceNow ecosystem in terms of professional service consulting engagement we think that's going to start to motivate them to now bring us into deals that we were never in before but what they have been able to do as well besides just accelerate is have the deals grow beyond IT and we see that numerous on global 2000 accounts for us and you're not trying to land grab the professional services business that's clear effect when you talk to some of your customers when I've ever last year when your customer scoop is complaining that your your price is real high on the surface of suck which it probably makes you happy because it leaves more room for you for your partners and that's really not a long-term piece of your revenue II think you've said publicly you want to be less than fifteen percent of your business right yes yes we have a little bit of a ongoing debate internally my preference is not to see the professional service organization grow in terms of headcount with the pure implementation people the area that I would like to see it grow is more on the training side unfortunately some of our customers they insist that we are part of the professional service engagement so those are more the ones that we're going to be involved and if a customer is looking for a lower-cost alternative we want to make it fair for our partner so that we're not competing with them so they can come up with a lower price to offer a good quality service is important though that it's not going for the lowest price our partners need to make investment so it can be a quality implementations this is a number of early implementations that were done by partners that were some of our smaller partners where they really didn't meet the the expectations of those customers that we've had to go in and fix some of those engagements so the number one goal for our professional service is to ensure we have happy customers because happy customers renew and buy more which are two of the key drivers for our growth so you keep growing like crazy blew it out last quarter to get a 181 million in Billings revenues up 60-plus percent you're throwing off cash hitting all your metrics of course the stock went down oh there you go not much more you could do but you got to really be pleased with the consistent performance and really predictability it seems of the company yeah no I'm since I've been the CFO company it's going to be coming on three years suit in the summer the one thing that I will say about this business model is it's extremely predictable in terms of the the forecasting and what helps with that is the fact that we have such high renewal rates that really helps because we really since I've been here we've never lost any major accounts I think our renewal rate has been averaging north of ninety-five percent and in terms of our upsells or up sells have been very consistent on average they run about a third of our business every quarter and that was Frank has made comments before too that if we don't sign on another customer we can still grow twenty-five percent per year plus just based upon the upsell business opportunity that we have within our existing installed base of customers that's penetrating accounts deeper more seats more licenses more processes and applications yeah the main grower of our upsells are the main contributor to our upsells within our customers really has been additional seat licenses because many of our customers we still have even fully penetrated IT and as we roll out more applications or make our applications more feature-rich as we talked about as Frank his keynote he talked a little bit today aitee costing we've always had that as an application but that's going to be coming out as a much more feature-rich application it's going to be a lot more usable to some of our customers when that goes live that's going to drive more licenses because many times it's different people with an IT that are the process users behind that and then it's going outside of IT as well with the adoption of people enterprise service management concept that Frank's been talking about that will drive incremental users as well too we do have some additional products such as orchestration discovery with a vast majority of our growth and customers is additional licensing so very consistent performance like I say the stock pull back a little bits interesting you guys worked a Splunk tableau smoking hot stocks of all pullback obviously it's almost like you trade as a groupie even though completely different companies completely different business models you don't compete really at all but so you kind of got to be flattering to be in that yeah obviously but it's I looked at as X this is good in a way this is a healthy you know pull back it's maybe a buying opportunity for people that wanted to get in and there are a lot of folks that I'm sure they're looking at that do you I mean how much attention do you even pay for it i know most CFOs i took a say look we can't control it all we can control is you know what we can control and that's what we focus on but you even look at things like that you order your thoughts on you know and unfortunately there is a little bit of a psychology going on here with some of our employees and they're always asking and my comment to them is the only price that matters is the day you sell and this pullback that we've seen recently this is not uncommon was I expecting it to happen right now you know I don't if I if I could predict those things a lot of different line of business but what I will say history is the best indicator of the future and even a company like salesforce com one of our large investors last week he sent me an email and said you do realize that in the first five years of sales force being a public it had forgot if it was four or five fifty percent pullbacks in the stock price so this this happens it will happen I guarantee it will happen again sometime in the future but not just with us with all the other companies I'd be more concerned if it was we were the only company that traded down and everyone stayed up but we're all trading down we all came back today it's interesting and you kind of burned the shorts last year and they've made some money now but but you know Peter Lynch they don't ever short great companies and it's very hard to too short great companies your timing has to be perfect so and your core business you know like for instance a workday is is fundamentally very profitable or you know it should be right and because you're spending like crazy on sales and marketing you're expanding into into AP you're expanding your total available market and you're still throwing off cash what if you can talk about that a little bit you had said off camera your goal is to really be you know so throw off little cash basically be cash flow breakeven yes yes so you know you can only grow at a certain pace last quarter we added 150 new people into our sales and marketing organization that was the the largest number that we've ever added in one quarter we actually added 273 net new employees in q1 that was the most we've ever added in a quarter and even with all those ads we still had very good positive cash flow so it's pretty hard to add at any faster pace than what we're doing right now and so you know I just I don't see us being cashflow negative anytime in the future right now unless something happened and write it have to be a pretty major catastrophe thing and it's not going to be specific to service now it will be kind of across the board we're all CIOs stop spending and the other thing I learned here I thought maybe I just wasn't paying attention to earlier conference calls but the AP focus a large percentage of the global 2000 is in asia-pacific so you're out nation-building right I won't if he could talk about that sure so in two thousand and from March 31st 2013 till March 31st 2014 we open up in 10 new countries most of those were in asia-pacific there's still more countries we're going to be going into an asia-pacific and why are we going into these countries we're going into these countries because that's where the global 2000 accounts are that is our strategy because we focus on quality of customers not quantity of customers what I mean by quality of quality customers one that can grow over time to be a very large customer and even in 2013 we went into Italy and people said at the time well why are you going into Italy we went to Italy because they have global 2000 have 30-something global 2000 accounts even though the Italian economy wasn't doing well global 2000 customers still spend it's not specific to that country their global we signed to global 2000 counts in Italy last quarter so we have a history of showing that if we go into those countries we will be successful in winning those global 2000 and will continue there are some global 2000 so in geographies where it's going to take some time before we actually have a physical presence such as mainland China we do not have any sales people in mainland China today Russia we did not have any people in Russia today how about Ukraine you know we have no one in Ukraine today good thing about Hitler you get to go visit there that's your country I wanted to talk about the TAM yesterday last year we had I kind of watched it but but I was asking Colombo questions about the team because it was you know very interesting I saw a lot of potential want to try to understand how big it could be you and I talked about you had said its north eight billion of course the the stock took off i think it probably 10 billion from a value standpoint I didn't my own tam of mid year I did a blog post I had it up to 30 billion so I started to understand it was a top down it wasn't a bottom up but you guys are starting to sort of communicate to him a little bit differently you got had the help desk and then beyond that the IT Service Management and then you you've essentially got the operations strike the operations management and even now sort of enterprise and business management so I wonder if you could talk about how you look at the the tam and any attempts that you've made to quantify it sure so there's really four markets we play in that really intersect with one another in the core of our market is the IT Service Management that's kind of our beachhead and how we go into accounts in that market right now when historically when we went public gartner groups of the world they looked at it as a helpdesk replacement market they were saying as a 1.4 to 1.6 billion dollar market what they were missing is there's many other things in that space IT service management such as ppm such as our cmdb such as asset management a lot of these things aren't in your traditional help desk we think based upon the rate at which we've been extracting from the market that somewhere we can afford a six billion dollar market opportunity just IT Service Management and then IT Service Management is a subset of the overall enterprise service management market that Frank has been talking about we talked about in our analyst state we think that is potentially as high as 10x the size of our IT Service Management so that can get you up to say that 40 billion dollar plus and then you as well have the IT operations management space IT Service Management you just have the legacy vendors down there nothing innovative happening down there service relationship a lot of white space a lot of stuff that's being done in email lotus notes microsoft access sharepoint those are the markets were going after there really are no true systems in and that's in that space it's those one-off custom apps IT operations management there is a lot of innovation happening down that in that space it is very crowded with some new vendors as well as the legacy vendors the area that will plan might be the whole 18 billion dollar market at IDC talks about you know it's still early innings but it's at least two billion of that market 24 billion will be going after and then Frank brought up this concept of the whole business analytics as well too we talked about we did our acquisition in mirror 42 in 2013 and the business analytics kind of sits at the top of enterprise service relationship management the market we can go after in there that's a that's a whole market into itself at least as big as the enterprise service management but we're not going after that whole market it's just the business analytics to the extent it relates to enterprise service management so that's at least a couple billion more unfortunately this is what we believe there is no published reports out there and times going to is going to tell it similar to when Salesforce went public no one believed the opportunity in front of it and now look how big that come have a 30 billion dollar plus company valuations are depends on what time of year it is what the markets doing but over the long term you know you can sort of do valuation analysis it in the CFO world is there some kind of thought in terms of the ratio between an organization's tan and it's in its valuation you know I mean these other things raid obviously the leadership etc but but for the top companies there a relationship I personally don't get wrapped up in valuation you know I can't control that I can't control public company multiples the only thing we have control over is running our own business and we're going to stay very focused on running our business and let other we'll take care of the valuation good business you picked a good one yes no I I'm very pleased with this one excellent all right Mike well listen thanks very much for coming on the cube we're up against the clock and I always appreciate you thank you Dave time up alrighty bryce bravely request with our next 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but cube at servicenow knowledge 14 is sponsored by service now here are your hosts Dave vellante and Jeff trick here we go hi buddy we're back this is Dave vellante with Jeff freak this is the cube we go out to the events we extract the signal from the noise we have a crowd chatting on its crowd chat / no 14 so check that out put your tweets in crouch at awesome engagement app Frank's Lupin is here president CEO of service now Frank it's it's a pleasure to have you back on the cube great to see again great to be here thanks things how you feeling I'm feeling great no I got that keynote got the keynote out this morning you had the financial analyst in yesterday had the industry analyst and they're working you hard absolutely it's a circus yeah so your keynote this morning was great I was right up front they have a nice spot for the industry analyst so appreciate that take good notes but one of the themes that you struck was really hit home to me because you talked about transforming IT from essentially a cost center into a value producer and how service now is at the heart of that and and how the role of the CIO is changing so one of you could sort of summarize and talk a little bit about how you see the role of IT and generally in the CIO specifically changing and what role service now plays in that transformation yeah just just to give a little bit on macro context right that's sort of the worst of all scenarios that we see out there where I t is essentially viewed as as a commodity as a utility and as a result you know people don't see much impact I just want to get a cheaper cheaper cheaper and they want to cut more costs out of the infrastructure and staffing levels and so on and actually is just an organization that we're tolerating because I guess we have to have email and Internet access and all that sort of thing now you go looking into broader world around what technology has done to change business right what amazon has done based on their technology platform what we've seen an online banking you know what we're seeing an online education there's just just incredible examples of innovation using technologies now aighty hasn't done that for their own enterprises they happen in some instances are some some really great examples out there where I t did impacted business but by and large IT is not viewed as to go to people that know how to bring technology into business you know in a way that that really turns the tables on the competition do some mind-blowing things i always ask CIOs when i when i meet him and says what have you done in the last 12 months that really blew people's minds or in terms of applying technology to business problems right and they start sort of thinking like i'll actually it is surely nothing i can think of well that's probably you know a question you should be asking yourself all the time right if it's not when lightning in a bottle when it's not the sort of thing that sort of lights up the whole enterprise like we won't do it is we have to do this that excitement then you're shooting too low and you know in general I find the the cost obsession and IT is an indication that we're not looking for the opportunity and I think that's that that's it that's a damn shame or we're here to change that well you talked about panning for gold was that proposed here in California and it's also a propellant you your company is smoking hot and you know your your commonly associated with the likes of workday and Salesforce and sponsor must be very very proud of that but also there's gold and then RIT shops right there's goal than those organizations that's not being being mined and and you know I think you talk about your penetration is what twenty percent of your your target your global 2000 where we have footprint in about eighteen percent of the enterprises that we think are relevant and appropriate to us but within those eighteen percent you know we were probably a third saturated so so very early innings for service now even though we've achieved considerable scale and very high growth at that scale so when you go into one of your accounts can you discern actual that actual value production vision that you set forth can you see it can you touch it can you you know to this to a skeptic a prospectus yeah Frank that sounds good but can you actually sort of provide proof points yeah managing surface is just essential in terms of economizing and saving money and here's why no I'll give you some some very pedestrian examples that we've seen in real life and the human resources department and probably get the example because I t everybody sort understands how to how the game works right HR organizations historically have not had service models they have that email and phones and so on the problem just called somebody as a result that was a huge amount of work that preoccupied the HR organization that nobody knew what people were working on and the staffing grew and grew and grew to deal with the growing volume of ink wires and problems and changes and so on until they have systems service models and they have reporting and analytics that showed them what was consuming their time once you know that you can put initiatives in place to start dealing with the underlying causes that are driving that work I have seen HR organizations dwindle their staffing by 50% just by understanding what of this day we're working on right that's what service management is all about instead of just delivering service you're managing and once that quarter drops by the way IT organizations they get this in space right because you know large enterprises they got fifty hundred thousand one hundred fifty thousand instance flowing to their organization a month it's a huge consumer of resource right if you go to these other service domains and you see very similar things this layer of software really optimizes that resource well the way they attack it oftentimes is human resource doesn't that scare a lot of prospects away when they hear oh wow near cup service now and they're going to replace all these these people it's a it's a good question actually wrote a blog post about it recently as well there is no doubt that in the economy at large we're going to see massive substitution from people to systems why because the technology is here and the economic imperative is here it's very much a societal and social question but you know here's the thing see alternative you know are we going to try and stop it and not do it it's going to happen the markets are going to run their course what needs to happen is that we adjust you know for example you know in education we have a lot of teachers right what's going to happen to teachers when education is delivered through online streaming well teachers gobble you want to become crooklyn developers in other words evolve and change in their roles because education is going online slowly but let's go into why because the format the service experience is that much better it scales that much better in step much more economical than what we currently have well you said today in your key note that the system is broken you know I'm having to put four kids through school I appreciate a nudge there to the educational system why did it take so long I mean these are the IT guys ease of the technology guys in the organization they're there to deliver value why did it take so long for this kind of transformational yeah wave Steve Jobs has been the late Steve Jobs been quoted many times people don't know what they want until I show it to him and that's sort of what we're doing we're showing it to him that's what we did this morning we're showing people what they can aspire to that's what we're here for we're trying to stimulate inspire motivate give people a sense of mission right as opposed to keeping the lights on managing crises running around with your hair on fire that's not a very attractive you know a view to half of your organization and what you do all day right yeah so I have it struck again by your keynote the Affordable Care Act affectionately known as Obamacare they not the government not a customer of yours or what's the scoop oh no they could you have helped with had problem we could have for sure but then again many people cook that for the foot of people then software and technology they look at something like that yeah last night I set a dinner with Adam infrastructure for Kaiser Permanente and they had a certainly know the problems of open enrollment that a massive scale and certainly we didn't want to trivialize the problem it is really really hard to need to operate the service like that at the scale that that they need to but there is no doubt that you know we don't need any new core technology to build systems like that I mean the technology exists the skills exists sure that I want to walk better than so let's talk about your business a little bit this year third year now right since you've joined service now exactly three years this week yeah so let's sort of break that down but when you when you join service now that the discussion was around and you talked about this yesterday the the whole team and everybody was looking at help desk saying wow how can these these these values be justified and of course you blew that away and now people are beginning to understand that it's interesting to note that data domain you sold the company i think for what 2.5 billion the entire market is is now greater than the market that it replaced interesting that's right the market was three billion it's now I according obviously bigger than three billion and growing yeah you know so that's kind of interesting now that's a much more confined market you know you talked about the tons of the team they're being finite you always knew it was finite here it's different you guys have started to sort of fine tune your tam analysis and communicate that it's still hard because you just don't know the how people are going to use your software they're finding new ways but the team and I took a stab and I came up with 30 billion but it was a top-down it wasn't a bottom up and it was I had to get the blog post out so it's kind of a back of the napkin but still it's very very large clearly a multiple of the IT service management market so I wonder if you could talk about sort of the the evolution of your thinking in terms of the market opportunity with service now were you always sort of where we are today or that have to evolve over time now it has evolved I'd say dramatically obviously the expansion from what used to be called help desk management to IT service management basically you know exploded the market at least 5-fold and they were licensing five to ten times as many people on our system now for itsm purposes then we used to and in the mid 90s during to help desk area because back then all we did was licensed people ever physically on the help desk right people that would take phone calls and emails and so on now really everybody in the IT organization is an actor and a participant in the workflow of service management you may be a DBA maybe a network engineer you're going to get when an incident comes in or a problem is defined you're going to be part of that workflow right so that Dad expansion was not understood early on but beyond that services is everything is everywhere and services everything and every physical and even non physical assets have service models around them so once you start looking forward you see it absolutely everywhere you know I don't know what's a few billion among friends you know I know all that the numbers are but this is heavily transformational I think one of the things that people struggle with they're looking for a line of sight right in our company like workday is viewed very possibly why because they're seeing them take dollar for dollar market evaluation away from companies that they can identify recipe in Oracle and so on feels very credible to gamma that's 250 billion dollars or mark oh I can see those guys from work the Oracle Sapa okay take a chunk out of their eyes I know you go look at service now you need to have more imagination there's this great court from Arthur Schopenhauer that I showed you yesterday which said you know you know takedowns to hit a target that nobody else can hit but it takes genius to hit a target on nobody else can see right it's transformational right what worked it does is modern with what service now does this transformation is fundamentally different so when you came on to service now I presume your focus was putting in the infrastructure and the process is to make sure that you could scale just having watched you in your career you're you're big on growth and yeah you're pretty aggressive so so take us through sort of you know where you sort of started and what the emphasis was and and where it is now be clearly you're investing in sales and marketing you're investing in AP I didn't know this the substantial number of global 2000 companies in asia-pacific so that's another so how is that I mean break that down into maybe one or two or three sort of segments of your attention and effort there there's sort of you can sort of split up in two major stages or phases the first phase you know when when I took over the helm of the company was very much focused on operationalizing stabilizing scale being able to deliver what we're already doing in a consistent and predictable manner and that was not a minor task because because the company had grown so fast but hadn't been able to basically catch itself in terms of bill into business building the organization underneath its business so that preoccupied us tremendously the whole thing about cloud is is not like there's a lot of people you know running around out there to actually no clout that understand clot that can build clouds and how many people do you know that I've actually done this because there's you know three years ago I mean they were far and few we actually recruited people that have built the original cloud of ebay because those guys were pioneers they have solved a lot of the problems associated with cloud early on we saw a lot of people that understood data centers the cloud this is almost in verse two data centers the mentality that you need to to run them davos phase one before us and we sort of got through that you know about you know a year and a half ago for sure about a year ago and we started to shift gears you know really from the operational infrastructure concentration that we've had to really trying to drive strategically the business towards enterprise service management they're really expanding the addressable market way beyond where we had been before we were going to market until i see i l-look itsm replacement you have to do it you're sitting on 10 15 20 year old software it's crappy it's got to go fine we're going to do that right but we want to give you this much bigger perspective managing service in the enterprise and you know make that a mission that you can own as a CEO and drive throughout your organization over a period of years and a lot of our customers have road maps that are 24 36 months and it shows you all the things they're going to knock off over that period of time and all the different you know parksley enterprises to sell is its engineering its market yourself so on yes okay so Tam expansion and now obviously accessing that to him we hire in a lot of sales people and go to market I was struck walking around the exhibit hall last night because you just announced app creator I think last year yep knowledge I was struck by you know that the booth down there with the number of apps I mean it's just astounding where that's going wouldn't have predicted you know some of them that I that I saw so that's obviously part of the the tam expansion as well I wonder if we could talk about the importance of a single system of record in order to achieve that vision because it's not always easy right politically people want to keep data in their own little silos so how does that work you can't force it in because it sort of just happen organically how critical is that to your success I mean when you have applications or services that relate to each other like for example you know this morning we showed in a demo I think we're sure like seven or eight different applications in the course of one demonstration the reason that is a single system of record matters so much when you do that is all these apps need to be aware of each other right when your when your staff in the projects you need to look at the resource management well that resource management relates to the skill requirements as well the skills that are available right what you don't want is these apps living in their own universes with their own data moss your own database because now you have to start the hack integrations between them to make any sense out of that and that's the world we lived and that's been the bane of software existence for for so long the ServiceNow said I'm not going to do that okay every application that relates to any other application they're going to be operating on exactly the same data model and by the way you see that throughout our platform right when you bring up an asset in the CMDB like a server or a rather or Santa whatever it is you'll be able to see all the other data artifacts throughout the platform like instantly problem of changes in projects and tasks that relate to that particular asset there's nobody else that can do that right and we provide the 360-degree visibility that makes application development so compelling because you know all the users are already defined the system you don't even have to get started with that you only define users once right you reuse all that and all the other artifacts already exists so you get this data gravitas that the more data that is there to richer the application with almond environment becomes yeah we talked about this too at the analyst meeting about the relationship to your M&A strategy you've got to be selective it's got to fit in to that single system of record does that however limit your choices in rule absolute limit our choices but you know this is the commitment from an architectural standpoint that we make us that we're not going to repeat what legacy vendors have done is I mean you know 50 apps whole stand along to hack integrations between them as I said that's the world our customers want to leave behind because it was just horrible former from an efficiency standpoint after a while all you people do is managing the operability of the patchwork plethora of assets that they have they're not doing anything productive and in our world they don't they do none of that right they're not upgrading software because it's the clouds you know we do that and they're not hacking integrations between apps because there is no constant of integration on service not with all the apps are aware through a shared data model so is there still plenty of M&A opportunity for you out there though I mean your stocks up I know it's off a little bit lately which I think it's really healthy I'm happy about that nice little breather but still you know you've made great progress adding value you can obviously use your stock as acquisition card co there's still plenty of opportunities for you notice there's absolutely tons of opportunities again in a day you know software infrastructure is it's very similar and very common between application itself for us to bring an application into our user interface framework I mean they have to have a user interface framework of some sort right so whether we replace what they have with ours with a replace the data structure we replace the underlying cloud we can do all those things right the question is is there going to be hard is it going to be expensive is it going to be time-consuming or maybe not as much and that will influence how attractive we are to the asset all right Frank we're way over on time but I could go forever i mean really appreciate you coming on CX for having us here it's really fantastic event all right keep it right to everybody we're back with our next guest this is the cube we're live from moscone right back