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Software Asset Management (SAM)

ServiceNow application for managing software licenses, compliance and optimization across vendors.

Definition

SAM normalizes discovered installations against the content library, reconciles them with entitlements by license metric and identifies over- or under-licensing and reclamation opportunities.

Exam tip

Reconciliation compares normalized installs to entitlements by publisher license metric.

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