Software asset overview
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- UpdatedAug 1, 2024
- 6 minutes to read
- Xanadu
- Software Asset Management
Enhance your software asset management experience by using the modernized and user-friendly software asset overview view. The software asset overview is a simplified and intuitive environment that helps you use the application more effectively by reducing complexity.
- Gain insights into key metrics such as compliance trends, true-up costs, potential savings, normalization rates.
- Execute routine tasks such as running reconciliation or creating entitlements.
- Configure Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows Server on your ServiceNow instance through the Guided Setup. For more information, see Software Asset Management Guided Experiences.
- Get actionable insights into your software assets via alerts and notifications.
- Sort by product or publisher to narrow down your results.
- Filter by Published status to view reports and dashboards only related to the software products that you manage in a phase-wise implementation of Software Asset Management.Note: The Published status filter is shown only when the system property com.snc.samp.manage.published.products is enabled on your ServiceNow instance. By default, this filter is set to Published and the following reports show details of published products:
- Publishers out of compliance
- Products out of compliance
- Over-licensed amount
- Total true-up cost
- Top 5 publishers true-up cost
- Software spend

Select any widget to view detailed information. All the widgets are updated whenever a new reconciliation result is available.
Activity center
Get alerts and notifications regarding your software assets. These alerts and notifications are asynchronous in nature. The Activity center displays a pre-defined set of alerts to notify you of actions that require your immediate attention. Notifications about events or activities that you should be aware of also appear in the Activity center. Select an alert or notification for more information.
- Scheduled jobs failed.
- Last content download failed.