Bill McDermott1:58:02
Okay, welcome back. All the great innovation from A and the team. That was fantastic to see. Now the last time when we were together, we laid out a strategic thesis: platform, industry, and global scale. And today that thesis is working. First, AI platform, AI, data, workflow all united on one enterprise platform. Not theory but real execution. Customers are live, partners are building, and the platform is delivering. Now just as important, deeper industry relevance solving complex mission-critical challenges across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and public sector. And third, global expansion. We said we would invest with intention internationally, and today Europe, APAC, and Latin America are proving that strategy right. We have made real progress. But the bigger signal is where the market is going next. Across every boardroom in every industry and every geography, the market is converging around three realities. Enterprises want to identify workflows. They don't just want to automate tasks. They want AI that can reason, that can decide, and that can act. Critically, they want speed. They don't want value in 18 months. They want value now. And to do that, they need orchestration and control. One platform to govern AI across every model, every workflow, and every function. This is no longer about experimenting with artificial intelligence. It is about operationalizing AI at scale securely. And at ServiceNow, we were made for this moment.
So today I'm going to focus on four ways that we are driving agentic growth. One, workflow identification. Two, autonomous implementation. Three, AI powered ecosystem. And four, our strategic expansion. So let's get started with identification. Now let me show you what this looks like at one of the most advanced technology companies in the world, Nvidia. So, Nvidia didn't come to us with a single point solution or challenge. They came to us because scaling AI inside the enterprise requires orchestrating multiple complex systems simultaneously. So, let's take a look at all four areas. In field engineering, AI agents now triage and troubleshoot in minutes instead of hours. Configure, price, and quote. Those times for some of the world's most complex AI infrastructure quotes dropped from 5 days to 5 minutes. In customer success, AI is enabling proactive management at scale, and in knowledge management, authoring agents continuously create and maintain critical documents. So, here's the punch line. This is not isolated automation. This is platform level agentic AI. Multiple AI agents operating simultaneously across multiple business functions. And Nvidia isn't the only place this is happening.
Across our customers, our forward deployed engineers, our elite forward deployed engineers that you saw before are powering the now next AI program that I spoke about last year. They are doing the work of business reinvention, identifying workflows on site inside customer production environments. I'll give you an example. NT data, our forward deployed engineers are shoulder to shoulder using AI to ensure 70,000 configuration items are fully under compliance. At PayPal, we're helping process trillions of payments faster. And at Robinhood, we're ensuring seamless onboarding as they scale headcount 26% year-over-year while integrating all of their acquisitions. Workflow identification. That is only what ServiceNow can do.
Let's turn to agentic implementations. Deployment velocity is no longer a services differentiator. It is now a strategic growth lever. And we now have two paths: self-implementation, AI guided deployment built directly into the platform, or services-led implementation, AI agents embedded in ServiceNow's delivery process. This dramatically compresses implementation timelines and time to value, so the result is some customers are going live up to 2x faster. Let's take the state of Hawaii, in one of the most regulated environments imaginable. We moved from workshops to go-live readiness in just 6 weeks. 6 weeks. Historically, this could take many months. Now, that's not incremental improvement. That's enterprise deployment velocity that's completely redefined.
Now, let's talk about one of our most important stakeholders, our partners. Partners are no longer just extending reach. They are accelerating implementations. They are expanding category adoption and they are compounding platform value for ServiceNow. Here's some data points. Consulting and implementation: 34% year-over-year increase. Managed service providers: 43% year-over-year increase. Resellers: 35% year-over-year increase in sales certification growth. Why do I talk about that? Because it's a powerful increase in the number of sellers positioning ServiceNow with our customers across the globe. Our hyperscalers. This year we were partner of the year in five categories of the hyperscalers. Microsoft's partner of the year for ISV innovation. Google's partner of the year in not one, not two, not three but four different categories. And the first one was Agentic innovation. Second one business applications platform, and then financial services. So, hyperscalers are important partners for us because they accelerate revenue across all segments, particularly net new logo acquisition. If you think about it, they give us access to millions of pre-committed cloud buyers, faster procurement cycles, and a co-sell motion that's at scale across the globe. And our tech partners and builders, we now have 2500 applications in the app store for ServiceNow. These apps are built across CRM, risk and security, technology and employee works.
Okay, let's move to the fourth bullet and talk strategic expansion. This is not adjacency for adjacency's sake. This is disciplined category expansion from system of action to system of autonomous enterprise execution. Starting with ServiceNow Employee Works. You heard earlier from Bhavin the power of MoveWorks and ServiceNow completely unified. Let me give you a customer example. At a customer I talked to recently, the CHRO told me, she said, 'Look, I have mandated a 10% year-over-year reduction in operational cost through 2028.' She said, 'To get there, I have to have AI handle routine HR inquiries, employee self-service, and ticket deflection.' Now, ServiceNow Employee Works then became the conversational AI front door for that project with auto identifying the workflows in the background. Result: $55 million in projected annual cost savings, 3.5 million productivity hours returned annually. That's business reinvention. Now, the same is true for risk and security with Vasa and Armis. Our customers now can see every asset, govern every identity, both human and non-human, and secure all assets and agents through one platform. The ServiceNow AI control tower is complete. Finally, our customers are no longer buying AI as separate solutions. And as many of you know, there's a lot of conversations in the marketplace around seat-based pricing versus consumption. But the future of enterprise monetization is not binary. It's hybrid. Customers want the predictability of platform commitments with the flexibility of consumption where agent scales and creates asymmetric value for them. ServiceNow's new commercial model ensures AI is built in to every offering from day one. And this model is designed exactly like our platform: predictability where it needs to be, flexibility where it should be, and scalability where it matters. So when I back up and I just kind of take a step and look at the whole landscape, here's what I see. We help customers sense what's happening. We help customers decide with intelligence grounded in enterprise context. We help them act through agentic workflows. And we help them secure everything through AI control tower. So now I have the privilege and I'm super excited to bring out two fantastic customers who are visionaries in their industries. Michelle Talwar who is the EVP and CDIO at FedEx Corporation and the president of FedEx Data Works, and Oliver Dewald who is the head of ServiceNow COE for Hitachi. Gentlemen.
All right. Well, thank you both for joining us. Um, Oliver, I'm going to start with you. So, you're modernizing Hitachi's IT operations globally. Maybe you could just share with us, you know, what's so hard about deploying AI at the enterprise scale of Hitachi. I mean, it's a massive complex organization.