Cisco vs ServiceNow

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  ServiceNow — Application · Public · $130.1B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Webex AI Agent and AI Agents do comparable work on customer support and voice agent; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and handle customer support conversations; same layer and the same scale band (large-cap).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

8 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale band

8 of 17 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, customer support, data analysis and 5 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and application.

Ludbee product records

Same scale band — Both large-cap.

Ludbee scale bands · from valuation and funding figures

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoServiceNow
Market cap$433.3B$130.1B ServiceNow has 3.3× smaller
Employees86,20029,187 ServiceNow has 3.0× fewer
Founded19842003 19 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USASanta Clara, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 8

Agent orchestrationCustomer supportData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyVoice agentWorkflow automation

Not verified for ServiceNow · 9

Accelerator siliconAI compute hardwareInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationThreat detection and response

Recorded for Cisco. ServiceNow’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Cisco · 6

Agentic codingCode generationDocument extractionKnowledge retrievalText generationSearch answers

Recorded for ServiceNow. Cisco’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

Cisco IQApplication

Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

ServiceNow

Application

AI SearchApplication

ServiceNow's generative-AI and semantic search layer, surfacing answers from knowledge articles, FAQs and platform data across portals, mobile apps and Virtual Agent.

ServiceNow Action FabricApplication

Lets any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or custom) execute governed ServiceNow actions headlessly through MCP and A2A protocols, applying ServiceNow's own workflow guardrails to third-party agent calls.

ServiceNow Document IntelligenceApplication

AI document-processing app that extracts information from PDFs and scanned documents and classifies multi-page documents by user-defined type, with human-in-the-loop feedback for variable documents.

ServiceNow OttoApplication

An AI assistant that unifies Now Assist, Moveworks and AI Experience into one voice, chat and text interface for completing work across ServiceNow-connected systems.

ServiceNow Predictive IntelligenceApplication

Built-in machine-learning layer that classifies and routes incidents/cases, generates smart recommendations, detects major incidents and predicts resolution times across Now Platform workflows.

AI agent

AI AgentsAI agent

Autonomous agents that execute IT, HR and customer service workflows on the Now Platform.

Build AgentAI agent

Creates and updates ServiceNow applications from natural-language prompts (ServiceNow's vibe-coding / app-building agent).

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for ServiceNow yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

Cisco AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.

ServiceNow sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cisco yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

AI Agent StudioDeveloper tool

ServiceNow's tool for building and testing enterprise AI agents on the Now Platform.

Platform

AI Control TowerPlatform

Governance layer that inventories every AI agent, model and MCP server in an estate and monitors what they do.