Where do the ServiceNow names come from? #1 – Statistics
It is well known in the ServiceNow Community that releases are named after cities. What is not known is how it is decided what city will be used for the naming.
Triggered by the questions and suggestions in both the Community and LinkedIn, this series will investigate possible options to determine the names. Why not "U" for "Utrecht" or a city in India? Hopefully we can figure this out together. If you have any alternate theories you would like to investigate, please leave in the comments. If you know on what basis a city is picked, also please let us know!
Investigation
[ Please note, this is not scientific research]
To investigate this, each Article will investigate a hypothesis. First the hypothesis is tested and then an alternative list of release version names is proposed.
The hypothesis that will be covered:
This table shows the Release names and release dates. These can be found here:
Below shows some of the statistics based on the current city/version names.
Per Continent:
Let’s first see which continent is most represented in the ServiceNow version names list:
Per Country:
Drilling down to a country level, shows the following results:
https://www.servicenow.com/community/now-platform-articles/where-do-the-servicenow-names-come-from-1-statistics/ta-p/2307109