ServiceNow To Acquire Data.world For AI-driven Catalog, Governance Tech

Data.world’s catalog and governance technologies are expected to help strengthen the ServiceNow AI Platform and expand the capabilities of Workflow Data Fabric.

AI-focused digital transformation technology developer ServiceNow Wednesday said it plans to acquire data.world as a way to improve its ability to deliver data catalog and governance solutions to help companies build AI-enabled infrastructures.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also unveiled new capabilities around its Workflow Data Fabric aimed at building a data ecosystem to power AI agents and workflows while providing them real-time intelligence.

ServiceNow unveiled the acquisition and new Workflow Data Fabric capabilities during its ServiceNow Knowledge 2025 conference held this week in Las Vegas.

ServiceNow did not disclose the terms of the acquisition. ServiceNow executives were not available to provide additional details by publication time.

Austin, Texas-based data.world is a leading enterprise data catalog and governance platform powering the strategic data initiatives for some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Customers include Siemens, Associated Press, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and Penguin Random House.

The company is also unusual in that it is a certified B Corp., which means it meets high standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. data.world also claims to be home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community.

ServiceNow plans to use data.world to help strengthen the ServiceNow AI Platform and expand the capabilities of Workflow Data Fabric.

The ServiceNow AI Platform is a cloud-based foundation that includes a wide array of AI-powered enterprise business apps for workflow automation, as well as a database and low/no code development tools for extensibility, to help digitize workflows across functions and critical business systems by connecting them on a single platform.

The ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabricis an enhanced integrated data layer that unifies business and technology data across the enterprise, powering all workflows and AI agents with real-time, secure access to data from any source.

According to ServiceNow, data.world will make it easier for ServiceNow to manage enterprise data assets as agentic AI becomes more common. The data.world technology also breaks data down into strategic and more manageable components.

ServiceNow also introduced on Wednesday new capabilities for its Workflow Data Fabric technology.

These include a data ecosystem to power AI agents and workflows with real-time intelligence. It also includes the company’s new Workflow Data Network, which is a broad ecosystem of data platforms, applications, and enterprise tools to enhance Workflow Data Fabric to better connect, understand, and take action from any data source via the ServiceNow AI Platform.

Workflow Data Network connects an ecosystem of trusted data partnerships to help enable secure and compliant activation of data across environments, including external data, to better empower AI agents with full context and help ensure more informed decisions, faster actions, and greater accuracy, ServiceNow said.