 From Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering ServiceNow, Knowledge 17. Brought to you by ServiceNow. Welcome back, we're here to wrap Knowledge 17. I'm Dave Vellante with Jeff Frick, and this is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise for you, our audience. So, Jeff, fifth year at Knowledge, our third day, why don't you start off? What's your, what are your takeaways? You know, it's an amazing story, right? I still remember the ARIA, we had this little tiny set, we're up and kind of squeezed in next to the escalator. You remember that? Yeah, and we had Fred on twice, I remember, and it was such a character. You know, I think, again, it's about efficiency, it's about automation, it's about software-driven, it's about data-driven, right? These are all massive trends that we see all over the place, and I think what makes Service Desk so special is they are executing them very effectively on a small item where they started the ITSM, and then they're just executing a LAN and expand. So many times, how many times were we here today where someone was looking over somebody else's shoulder at them doing some work from a different department and said, hey, what are you doing? I want that. So it's just such a solid way to build the business, really nail something, just be the best. 10x better than anything else that's out there or 10% of the cost, right? Agile formula, and then demonstrate it, then execute more applications on that platform, have the benefit of being platformed first when the thing was designed in the first place, which again, we've heard numerous times is such an important factor for not only building out the apps, but for people coming on board to see the really big opportunities. You always talk about what's the TAM? It's not the ITSM's TAM that they've been targeting, and they just seem to be executing. It's all at the end of the day, and you said Frank Slutman's an execution machine. Now they're basically passing on the reins to kind of a new group of folks, fresh energy, fresh ideas, all very seasoned veterans with lots of experience in applications, infrastructure, cloud, to see if they can take it to the next level. Yeah, we are entering the third management phase of service now. Fred Lutty is the original founder and CEO, and Fred is, you know, we love Fred, but he is not the CEO type that you would tap to take a company to, you know, a billion dollars plus. He's the guy that is the creative juices, and Frank Slutman was the perfect person for that. When we talked to Frank Slutman about the decision to move on, it was not a function of the timing, et cetera, it was really the function of the timing, or just the timing, it was a function of the timing plus the person. They found John Donahoe and said, okay, this is the perfect person to take it from, you know, a billion plus to four billion and beyond. And so we are entering that phase. I guess the other thing is, you know, you can't look at this company and not look at the numbers, 1.4 billion in revenue on their way to four billion, aspirations of 10 billion plus, 30 plus percent revenue growth, 45 percent plus free cash flow growth, 17 billion dollar market cap, and just awesome numbers. Stock prices up, investors get it, consistent execution, maybe one speed bump, you know, a couple years ago, but otherwise it's been beat, beat, beat, and that is because of the predictable nature of this business. Now, there are some, when you watch this, there's some interesting accounting changes that might throw some people off, ways in which you account revenue, both positive and potentially negative for Service Now's income statement. Doesn't change the business a bit, but I'm looking for the street to misunderstand when it's positive and go nuts, oh my God, look what happened, just because of an accounting change, and when it's somewhat negative from an accounting standpoint, like in Q3 when the ratable revenue is not recognized up front, or whatever the weird accounting machination are, that the street sort of goes down on it, but I think fundamentally, very, very sound and strong company. The second point is ecosystem leverage. It's something that you and I have been harping on for five years, it's now happened, it's, you know, it was Cloud Sherpas and fruition partners, companies that frankly, nobody really had ever heard of, and now it's Accenture, Ernie Young, KPMG, IBM, right, DXC, right, EY. So these are the big players that are going to give them leverage into the boardroom, into the new lines of business, and also the ISV, listen to Tony Beller, the ISV emphasis I think is huge, given the fact that they've got such potential developer leverage. I think the other thing is innovation. This is a platform for innovation. We've said that, Fred Luddy has claimed that, everybody here has emphasized that for years, and it's true, it's really coming, and then the final one is the point that you've been making is the customers. When you talk to the customers, they're taking this platform and they're doing more with it, they're bringing it to new parts of the business, they're developing new applications on top of it, they're using this platform to completely transform the way they work, and that's a very powerful testament and it's their own, Jassy talks about the flywheel, these guys are clearly on a flywheel. I think Jeffrey Hammond from Forrester we had on today had some really good points, and like you said, everybody wants the developers, developers, developers, developers. He compared this to like Atlassian Jiro, which I worked with in a prior life, where the developers are so passionate about the things in which they work, the environment in which they work, they take it to their next place. They're selling it internally. He talked about Mr. Pink and selling. The developers are selling other developers to the tools that they like to use that work for them, and they're not supposed to use these tools, I'm sorry Pat, but he talked about that, and they have that passion. Everyone here develops it to the top level, and the other thing I thought that Jeff was really spot on is this new revolution, is this low code assembly type of method enabled by cloud, where people don't need to know what the infrastructure is. The infrastructure is slave to the app, the app is no longer slave to the infrastructure, and that's a problem for a lot of the legacy infrastructure firms and legacy firms that don't have that baked in. These guys have a relatively modern platform where they can operate in that environment, so it truly is the developers who have the juice to get things done, and this is a platform in which they can be innovative and create, these are creator con, it's not developer con, create, create, create, change a world, write something cool, and I think they're really well positioned for that. And then the next big thing, we talked about machine learning and AI, and again, in typical ServiceNow fashion, they find a really simple way to execute ML in a high value way and categorization and these types of things, but then the next thing that Pat talked about was the next thing is where no longer are people going to have to be forced to talk like machines, but now the machines will have the horsepower bandwidth compute to actually start to listen to the people, so there's going to be a whole nother wave of execution and growth in the way apps develop because if you've got an Alexa, you've got a Google Home, you talk to them and they're still really nascent, they're a long way to go. Yeah, and I think that's really helped this company a lot, that mindset of Fred Luddy saying I want to create an Amazon-like experience and it's really played well. We've been saying for five years how much we love this company, we still love this company, it's probably my, there's certainly top three of folks in the enterprise to watch, continue to watch this company. Okay, so that's a wrap for us, The Cube, big week this week, you know, Service Now Knowledge, we are at EMC World OpenStack Summit. All that stuff is on siliconangle.com and thecube.net, so you got to check that out. It's just tons and tons of content from this event and other events. Check out our Twitter handle, check out CubeGems and it's just awesome, the little snippets of the interviews and you really can get a sense as to some of the key trends, it's like watching the ticker tape at the bottom. Big week next week, I think we've got three shows next week too, we're going to be at Veeam on. Veeam Informatica World and we'll be covering SAP Sapphire from Palo Alto. Yeah, and then obviously, I mean, May, June, or our biggest months of June, I think we've got multiple shows every week. The guys are looking at a lot of TV, there's a lot there. The guys are told of Road Warriors, what was the last time you guys were home? We're taking care of Pat's car. It's been a while, it was definitely last month. He's not worried about the street cleaners in San Francisco, let's just say that. And you know, again, thanks to everybody from ServiceNow, it was just such a fabulous week. You guys treat us great, give us this nice space, the best guests, and we love the fact that you got so many customers to come on of high quality, CIOs, women in tech, runs the gamut, great execs, so thanks to the whole ServiceNow community, you really make the Cube feel welcome and we love you. Jeff, always a pleasure working with you. Great job, Dave. You've been awesome, so thanks very much and thanks to the crew. All right, we're out, we'll see you next time. 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