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Description of Business	12 Months Ended
Description of Business	Dec. 31, 2013
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Description of Business	Description of the Business ServiceNow is a leading provider of cloud-based services to automate and manage IT service relationships across the global enterprise. Our services include a suite of IT service automation applications built on our proprietary platform that can be rapidly deployed and configured. Customers use our services to create a single system of record for enterprise IT, automate manual tasks, standardize processes and consolidate legacy systems. Using ServiceNow, enterprise IT departments can accelerate their shift from the management of IT infrastructure to the management of IT service relationships across the enterprise with greater transparency, accountability and auditability. Our proprietary platform enables our customers to create custom applications and evolve the IT service model to service domains inside and outside the enterprise.