Software Asset Management works with ServiceNow® Discovery to enable you to create an accurate, up to date, single system of record for IT infrastructure, both on premises and in public clouds.

It identifies IP‑enabled configuration items (CIs), maps their interdependencies, and populates and maintains them in the ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB). When used with ServiceNow Service Mapping, it discovers services, too.

ServiceNow SAM can connect to additional discovery sources as well, such as Microsoft SCCM, IBM’s BigFix and ILMT, Jamf Pro and many more available in the ServiceNow Store.

Automated Entitlement Import drastically improves time to value by automating the process of importing procurement data. It also performs critical validations such as identification of duplicates to ensure the data entered in the system is accurate.

Also available on the Now Platform is ServiceNow Procurement, an application customers can leverage the ability automatically create purchase orders and obtain items for fulfilling service catalog requests.

An extensive content library aids in the normalization process to understand what is discovered in your environment.

Benefit from a customer community who opts in to crowdsource software discovery, purchase, and lifecycle updates that drive exponential growth of the library. Capitalize on the broad range of publishers, products, and more to eliminate manual asset management activities.

SAM also provides normalization suggestions that will flag anything you manually normalize that appears to be inconsistent with the library.

Software Asset Management includes built in software license calculation intelligence, easily applied to software entitlements without writing a single line of code. These calculations are automatically run weekly or on‑demand to ensure your compliance position is always up to date.

Review the comprehensive and dynamic results of reconciliation in a single‑pane view or effortlessly drill into the details to identify the source of non‑compliance and excessive spending.

Software Asset Management provides access to an extensive Content Library containing thousands of software publishers, including complex server side licensing for top publishers such as Microsoft (including Office365), Oracle, IBM, VMware, Citrix and Adobe (including Adobe Creative Cloud). 

For example, with Oracle, SAM provides customers the ability to track Oracle Database option usage that can surface optimization opportunities.

Plus, publisher‑specific dashboards allow you to review compliance and optimization positions at‑a‑glance. Software asset managers can use filters to interact with data and find meaningful insights that guide strategic decision‑making and provide visibility into the most complex products.

Performance Analytics for SAM provides customizable visualizations of cost trends, software license risks, and drill down graphics for strategic planning and decision making.

Get an additional detailed view of the underlying data behind the dashboards, for a full view of publisher effective license positions all in one place.  Pull reports on your license position on demand.

Life at work is better when experiences are intuitive and workflows across departments are automated. Client Software Distribution facilitates self‑service software and automatic license reclamation for the SAM use case.

Reassign, reclaim, and revoke software to report a budget surplus and eliminate shelf‑ware. Remove unlicensed installations. Create Purchase Order requests for new software rights and automate requests through fulfilment. Create allocations or revoke software for users or devices.

Ensure compliance by surfacing software cost information at the time of an IT change. Enable your IT counterparts to understand the spend implications of the underlying infrastructure adjustments. Auto calculate the cost of the change or savings as part of the IT change request. 

Software lifecycle dates such as general availability, end of life, and end of service life are provided out of the box. Get valuable data points about the software in your application stack for IT planning.

Use cases include application rationalization and security efforts for software titles approaching end of service life or already lapsed.

Many companies have networks that allow employees to download non‑authorized software (gaming applications, pirated music players, etc.), which can impact both security and employee productivity.

Blacklisting in SAM can discover and identify software that was not authorized and flag it as a candidate for removal. Blacklisting allows you to enforce employee compliance and achieve security objectives.

SAM has received the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (“FedRAMP”) certification. Now you can proactively manage software license compliance, optimize software spend, and manage software assets throughout the entire lifecycle from a single platform.

SAM meets the strict technical requirements necessary for government related entities to utilize it in the cloud.