ServiceNow Wins New Product of the Year Award at the Ninth Annual American Business Awards

SAN DIEGO, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ServiceNow, creators of SaaS for IT, was recognized with a Stevie® Award for the new product of the year in the software-as-a-service category at the Ninth Annual American Business Awards(SM) ceremony held in New York.

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"The Stevie is a prestigious award that has long recognized true business innovation," said Mark Hamilton, ServiceNow VP of marketing. "The IT industry is undergoing a historic transformation. With the rapid growth of social IT, cloud computing, virtualization and mobility, organizations require an exceedingly flexible IT service automation solution. Building our solution as a SaaS-based offering has allowed ServiceNow to quickly adapt to these emerging industry trends."

More than 2,800 entries were submitted to The 2011 American Business Awards. ServiceNow, which won the award based on its Fall 2010 product release, recently announced the availability of its latest product update. With the June11 release, ServiceNow continues to add social IT and cloud management capabilities delivering on the concept of IT 3.0.

Recognition for ServiceNow as the SaaS product of the year for companies with fewer than 2500 employees is the latest in a  long line of recent company accolades. These include recognition from Ernst & Young, ComputerWorld, TechWorld, The Wall Street Journal, Pink Elephant, SearchDataCenter and Gartner.

ServiceNow is joined by other 2011 Stevie Award winners such as American Express, Blackhawk Network, Dimension Data, F5 Networks, Flextronics, General Electric, MetLife, and SunGard.

The Stevie Awards honor companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them. Specifically the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.  Learn more about The Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com/.

To learn more about ServiceNow cloud services for enterprise IT, a live, no-registration-required instance of ServiceNow is always available at http://demo.service-now.com/. Alternatively, register here to attend the ServiceNow June11 overview webinar on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:00 am Pacific.

About ServiceNow

ServiceNow was created to break all the old rules of enterprise IT management software. Born in the cloud, ServiceNow makes IT immediate, social and intuitive. From the beginning, the company set out to give IT people powerfully simple cloud services that just work. Today, the world's most recognizable and innovative companies rely on SaaS from ServiceNow to transform IT to achieve IT 3.0. Founded in 2004, ServiceNow was recently named by Inc. 500 as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world and is the undisputed market share leader in SaaS for IT. For more information, please visit http://www.service-now.com or http://blog.service-now.com.

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