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ServiceNow to acquire indoor mapping company Mapwize
In the new world of remote and hybrid work, creating great employee experiences is more important than ever. That’s why I’m excited that ServiceNow is acquiring Mapwize, an indoor mapping and wayfinding company based in Lille, France.
The future of work is hybrid. As more enterprises implement hybrid work regimes, they’ll need indoor mapping and wayfinding capabilities to help guide current and new employees to their workspaces. Mapwize will help bring this essential employee experience to our customers sooner and ultimately drive a more productive and efficient workplace.
Why Mapwize?
According to ServiceNow’s 2021 Employee Experience Imperative study, which surveyed more than 3,000 employees at large enterprise companies in North America and Europe, 65% of respondents said they prefer a hybrid approach to work that includes digital and in-person interactions. With this move toward hybrid work, employees need choice and flexibility more than ever. Organizations that can provide consumer-grade digital experiences for their employees will be set up for success.
Mapwize’s capabilities are all about boosting efficiency across people and places, making it easier for people to work, and to work together.
With Mapwize, employees can navigate offices; reserve seats, conference rooms, and workspaces; and access workplace resources—all from their mobile or desktop device. Workplace teams can optimize space utilization by managing and updating floor maps based on usage patterns and their evolving needs.
To support flexible and agile workplaces, we plan to build Mapwize’s mapping capabilities into the Now Platform®, on both desktop and mobile. Mapwize’s mapping capabilities are expected to become part of our Workplace Space Mapping application, included in our Workplace Service Delivery solution. That way, employees and workplace teams can have everything they need to navigate and build a great workspace, right at their fingertips.
Who benefits?
- Employees who want to work more efficiently
Mapwize’s capabilities boost employee confidence and efficiency, reducing the hassle of navigating a workspace visually. Employees can use maps to access workplace services, find and reserve workspaces, schedule and book rooms, and much more.
- Workplace managers who want to create more functional spaces
As businesses become more agile, work environments need to keep pace. With these new tools, workplace managers can track spaces, alter the status and use of spaces, and view workplace issues on an intuitive map.
- Workplace planners who want to optimize space utilization
As employees spend less time in the office, it’s crucial that workplace managers create spaces that are easy to navigate quickly. Now workplace planners can do their job better than ever, tracking activities and allocating spaces all in one platform.
- Workplace agents who want to deliver better service
Great service requires great experiences. Using Mapwize, workplace agents can view cases on the map and act on them quickly, without missing anything.
Why are we excited?
Because we’re helping to create the new world of work. Organizations worldwide are experiencing an evolution in both strategy and culture. Agility and resilience are now vital for success. It’s time for our workplaces to align with this approach to work.
To that end, we’re planning on re-platforming Mapwize’s technology into the Now Platform, leveraging the experience and expertise of the Mapwize team to enhance our Workplace Service Delivery and Now Platform capabilities. We expect the service to be available to our customers in the second half of 2022.
Mapwize’s advanced mapping technology will advance our mission of empowering organizations to create excellent experiences for their employees. ServiceNow helps you deliver great employee experiences across all enterprise functions, including IT, talent management, workplace services, and beyond. These experiences run out of the box, on a single platform, across multiple channels.
Together, ServiceNow and Mapwize are helping employees work better—regardless of where and how they do it.
Use of forward‑looking statements
This blog contains "forward-looking statements" about the expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions, and strategies relating to ServiceNow’s acquisition of Mapwize. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding future product capabilities and offerings and expected benefits to ServiceNow. Forward‑looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward‑looking statements. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, our results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward‑looking statements we make. We undertake no obligation, and do not intend, to update the forward‑looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in any forward‑looking statements include, without limitation, assimilating or integrating Mapwize’s technology into our platform; the inability to retain key employees of Mapwize; unanticipated expenses related to Mapwize’s acquired technology; potential adverse tax consequences; disruption to our business and diversion of management attention and other resources; and potential unknown liabilities associated with Mapwize’s business. Further information on factors that could affect our financial and other results is included in the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.
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