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Description of Business	3 Months Ended
Description of Business	Mar. 31, 2016
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Description of Business	Description of the Business ServiceNow is a leading provider of enterprise cloud computing solutions that define, structure, manage and automate services across the global enterprise. Our mission is to help the modern enterprise operate faster and be more scalable by applying a service-oriented lens to the activities, tasks and processes that comprise day-to-day work life.