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.

Use the software asset overview view to:
  • 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
    However, you can also view reports related to the products that aren't published by setting this filter to Unpublished. To view reports related to all the products, clear the Published status filter.
Figure 1. Software asset overview view
Software asset overview landing page

Select any widget to view detailed information. All the widgets are updated whenever a new reconciliation result is available.

To narrow down your results, you can filter the workspace by publisher or product.
Note: If you select more than one publisher in the filter and then select the Publishers out of compliance widget, all non-compliant publishers are listed. The same is true for products.

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.

Any user with the role of sam_user can access all alerts and notifications except for the following alerts that require the sam_admin role.
  • Scheduled jobs failed.
  • Last content download failed.