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ServiceNow Reframes AI as Governed Autonomous Work

Posted by Jeff Orr on 04 June 2026

ServiceNow used the Knowledge 26 conference to make a clear market claim: Enterprise AI will not scale through disconnected assistants, isolated copilots or unmanaged agent experiments. It will scale through governed autonomous work tied to workflow execution, operational data, identity controls and measurable business outcomes. That is the right conversation for enterprise IT leaders. The risk... Read More

Topics: ITSM, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Automation, AIOps, IT & Technologies, ADM & DevOps, Platforms, Non-Human Identity, IT Management & Operations, ServiceNow, ESM, Cybersecurity Automation, AI Governance, Autonomous Workforce, ITAM, Identity Governance, Workflow Automation

The Agentic AI Economy: Beyond Integration

Posted by Alex Bakker on 25 February 2026

The concept of software components orchestrating across boundaries is not new—it has appeared in mainframe program libraries, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs). APIs became the next wave of this idea, powering cloud, mobile and software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecosystems. But the next generation is arriving: agentic AI. Where APIs exposed capabilities in rigid... Read More

Topics: Analytics, Data Platforms, Intelligent Automation, AI & Technologies, Buyer Behavior

Intelligent Automation: ServiceNow’s AI Agent Workflows at Knowledge ’25

Posted by Jeff Orr on 19 August 2025

As we stand precariously at the intersection of technology and business strategy, ServiceNow’s Knowledge ’25 conference unveiled “the art of the possible” for what service automation can mean in our efficiency-seeking world. ServiceNow has long been a champion of transforming the mundane into the extraordinary, and in the era of AI, it aims to harness the potential of intelligent automation. The... Read More

Topics: Operations, Generative AI, Intelligent Automation, IT & Technologies, AgenticAI, IT Management, ADM & DevOps, Platforms, Workflow, Control Tower