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The ROI Machine

October 8th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

ServiceNow is telling companies that have already bought into artificial intelligence to stop treating AI as a separate strategy and measure it as business infrastructure. In an October interview with Technology Magazine, Damien Davis, Senior Director in the company's Customer Excellence Group, said the relevant question is how quickly AI can turn potential into performance. The company points to machine learning embedded in workflows since 2017, AI agents said to save roughly 400,000 labor hours annually, productivity gains of about 20%, and a Fujitsu partnership that claims 100,000 hours unlocked and US$5.1 million in additional ROI for one Australian client.

The useful part of the case is its shift from spectacle to accounting. ServiceNow's version of AI is measured through support tickets, approval gates, incident categories, payroll risk, automation logs, and change-management procedures. Even the phrase AI disaster recovery is revealing because it treats autonomous systems as infrastructure that can fail, require continuity planning, and need a human checkpoint before certain decisions move forward. That is a colder, clearer picture of enterprise AI than the language of transformation usually permits. The question for executives is no longer whether AI sounds advanced, but which process it changes, who remains accountable, and what number proves the change worked.

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La contabilidad de la IA

Octubre 8, 2025 | Por R10

ServiceNow les dice a las empresas que ya invirtieron en inteligencia artificial que dejen de tratarla como una estrategia separada y la midan como infraestructura de negocio. En una entrevista de octubre con Technology Magazine, Damien Davis, Senior Director del Customer Excellence Group de la compañía, sostuvo que la pregunta relevante es cuán rápido puede la IA convertir potencial en desempeño. La empresa apunta a machine learning integrado en flujos de trabajo desde 2017, agentes de IA que según sus cifras ahorran unas 400.000 horas laborales al año, mejoras de productividad cercanas al 20% y una alianza con Fujitsu que reporta 100.000 horas desbloqueadas y 5,1 millones de dólares adicionales de retorno para un cliente australiano.

La parte útil del caso está en su paso del espectáculo a la contabilidad. La IA de ServiceNow se mide mediante tickets de soporte, puertas de aprobación, categorías de incidentes, riesgo de nómina, registros de automatización y procedimientos de gestión del cambio. Incluso la expresión AI disaster recovery resulta reveladora porque trata los sistemas autónomos como infraestructura que puede fallar, exigir planes de continuidad y requerir una revisión humana antes de ciertas decisiones. Es una imagen más fría y más clara de la IA empresarial que la retórica habitual de la transformación. La pregunta para los ejecutivos ya no es si la IA suena avanzada, sino qué proceso cambia, quién conserva la responsabilidad y qué número demuestra que el cambio funcionó.

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