According to sources, ServiceNow is in advanced negotiations to acquire cybersecurity company Armis. The latter focuses primarily on exposure management. The deal could be worth up to $7 billion and may be announced within the next few days. Bloomberg reported last Saturday that ServiceNow is in talks with Armis about an acquisition that would be the largest in the company's history. Two weeks ago, ServiceNow announced the acquisition of data security platform Veza for reportedly more than $1 billion.
The new app in the ServiceNow Store offers bidirectional, policy-driven backup and recovery orchestration directly within the ServiceNow AI Platform. Users get full auditability, real-time status synchronization, and compliance reporting. ServiceNow users can monitor, orchestrate, and automate Veeam-powered data protection without leaving the platform. With this app, Veeam is primarily targeting highly regulated sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and finance. Companies that want to provide their teams with self-service data security and automation are also part of the target group.
Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff crowed to investors on Wednesday that the company's Agentforce IT Service, which debuted in October, was already winning customers and saving them money. He singled out PenFed, one of the nation's largest credit unions, as one of the early users and claimed PenFed is projecting a 30 percent cut in operating costs, and $2 million in savings.
Undoubtedly, you really can't blame new, smaller retail investors for forgoing the names with high share prices, even if one can technically afford to buy a single share or two. Personally, I think it's a matter of convenience for the retail crowd, and such splits, I think, are a move that's retail-friendly and could draw further inflows into a stock.
AI is reorienting the global economy in radical ways, and the effects are spreading from consumers to companies, says Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow, an enterprise software giant. McDermott, a veteran of the software industry who previously led European tech giant SAP, chatted with me as his company reported third-quarter results on Wednesday. We spoke about AI disruptions to the job market, the AI spending boom, and the threat of generative AI to the software industry.
Yes, ServiceNow offers a comprehensive agentic AI platform. It was first introduced with the Yokohama release that entered early access on January 30 2025 and reached general availability on March 12 2025, then expanded further throughout 2025. ServiceNow's agentic AI represents an evolution from scripted automation to fully autonomous digital teammates. These AI-powered agents reason, plan, and act on behalf of users across IT, HR, and customer service workflows.
meaning those users who choose to adopt the new platform - each ServiceNow customer runs a private instance and can change to new versions at a time of their choosing - already have more AI to play with. Chief Innovation Officer Dave Wright told us ServiceNow did so simply because it wanted to get more AI into users' hands ASAP, as it believes they want it.
Agencies buying a higher-tier bundle of ServiceNow's information technology products will see discounts as high as 70% though September 2028, the US General Services Administration said Wednesday in a statement. The deal follows a spate of similar announcements touting big discounts on software and cloud products used by federal workers, as the GSA has sought to centralize negotiations with technology vendors to leverage the federal government's purchasing power.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3648 (CVSS score: 8.2), has been described as a case of data inference in Now Platform through conditional access control list (ACL) rules.