Where is the nearest exit? ServiceNow continues to acquire internal map startup Mapwize • The Register

ServiceNow has done some digging between sofa cushions and found enough change to make some acquisitions.

The first is Mapwize, an indoor map expert.This French startup focuses on modeling internal architectural spaces to help “define style, locate assets, and showcase meeting room availability [and] According to the company, it adds rules to the direction engine.It claims to be able to reduce real estate operating costs through “the right scale”[ing clients’] Based on occupied office space. “

ServiceNow is an IT service desk company whose ambition is to become a “defining 21st century enterprise software company” through the magic of workflow. Therefore, Mapwize may be integrated with facilities and management or HR workflows. ServiceNow said it will also help the company manage and update floor maps based on usage trends and changing real estate needs.

ServiceNow’s vice president of employee workflow, Blake McConnell, said that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the company is considering “mixing” home and office work, which is a timely move.

Kate Hanaghan, chief research officer of TechMarketView, said that the startup, founded in 2014, added “an important capability that can support employees’ mixed office experience and management space needs.”

Swarm64 is more difficult to integrate into the ServiceNow puzzle.As co-founder and CEO Thomas Richter said, this Berlin startup has built a technology specifically designed to accelerate the open source RDBMS PostgreSQL, especially its analytical performance Register last year.

The $1 billion company said that the acquisition will help “customers more effectively manage data in many different use cases to perform complex, high-speed data analysis at scale.” However, more specifically, these appear to be ServiceNow. A use case in the Now platform, which uses PostgreSQL as one of its databases.

“Swarm64’s expertise in database performance and scalability allows us to plan for the future by helping us provide customers with increasingly larger and smarter workflows,” Joe Davis, Senior Vice President of Platform Engineering at ServiceNow, in his blog Express.

“In addition to bringing new database talents to ServiceNow’s engineering team, the acquisition of Swarm64 marks ServiceNow’s latest investment in open source. Swarm64’s open source database technology is very suitable for large-scale data sets, and ultimately helps customers obtain enterprise-wide processing of large amounts of data The insight needed to trade and run complex analyses in real time.”

This month’s purchase was made after ServiceNow acquired Lightstep in May, Lightstep is an observability solution for cloud-based applications.

In March of this year, ServiceNow also acquired Intellibot, an expert in the field of robotic process automation, in the hope that it can “automate workflows and increase productivity.” ®