ServiceNow Announces Knowledge11 Europe, the Leading User Conference for Cloud IT

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ServiceNow, the creators of SaaS for IT, today announced Knowledge11 Europe will be held in Frankfurt, December 5-8, 2011, at the InterContinental Hotel. In addition, ServiceNow also announced the Knowledge12 global user conference will be held in New Orleans from May 13 – 17, 2012. ServiceNow Knowledge conferences are the fastest-growing IT management user events in the world, and are still the only conferences focused exclusively on cloud services built for enterprise IT.

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The Knowledge11 Europe agenda will feature more than 50 keynotes, customer case studies, hands-on workshops and training sessions packed into a four-day agenda. The conference will focus on the most relevant SaaS for IT service management topics such as social IT, cloud lifecycle management, service catalog, CMDB, IT cost, asset, core ITIL processes, knowledge, PaaS, business service automation and many other topics.

Frank Slootman, ServiceNow CEO, and Fred Luddy, ServiceNow chief product officer, will set the stage for Knowledge11 Europe and the future of the industry through opening keynote presentations .Other keynotes and breakout sessions will be delivered by ServiceNow developers, industry experts and IT executives from Europe's leading businesses.

Knowledge11 Europe will be attended by the world's most forward-thinking and successful IT professionals. ServiceNow will highlight more customer ingenuity through another Knowledge Innovation of the Year award given to an organization that has done something extra special with the ServiceNow Platform. Knowledge11 Europe attendees are encouraged to nominate innovative ServiceNow projects through the Knowledge11 Europe website.

Knowledge11 Europe will provide unprecedented access to ServiceNow experts via one-on-one developer networking and exclusive ServiceNow training courses included with the price of conference registration. Pre-conference training includes:

• ServiceNow administrator certification
• Scripting in ServiceNow
• ITSM process design and ITIL good practice

Knowledge11 Europe is expected to sell out and pre-conference training courses will reach capacity. Register early to reserve a spot.

ServiceNow provides an opportunity for partners to connect with the most advanced IT organizations in the world. Knowledge11 Europe sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are now available.

Follow Knowledge11 Europe news and developments through the @ServiceNow Twitter handle, Facebook fan page, or using the #know11 hashtag.

Knowledge12, the sixth annual ServiceNow user conference in the United States, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans. ServiceNow expects more than two thousand IT professionals and executives to attend. Additional Knowledge12 details are forthcoming.

To learn more about cloud services for ITSM and an evolved approach to ITIL, please join ServiceNow and Malcolm Fry for a webinar titled, "Making ITIL Work for You," on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 at 8 am Pacific. Alternatively, a live, no-registration-required instance of ServiceNow is always available at http://demo.service-now.com/

About ServiceNow

ServiceNow was created to break all the old rules of enterprise IT management software. Born in the cloud, ServiceNow Platform 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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