This video is an overview of the Microsoft Publisher pack for the ServiceNow Software Asset Management product. SAM helps you manage software assets and monitor and control license processes throughout the software life cycle. SAM tells you what software you own. Are you buying what you need? And are you using what you have? With the Microsoft Publisher Pack, SAM gives you this information for your Microsoft license. Microsoft often makes changes to its licensing programs, product use rights, and software assurance. Microsoft Publisher pack helps you understand and manage Microsoft licensing compliance. This helps you reduce annual true up costs and the risk of unplanned audits. Microsoft Publisher Pack also helps you monitor the usage and cost of software licenses. SAM gives you a comprehensive analysis of your Microsoft software. From a single view, we can see products out of compliance,... ... over licensed amounts, true up costs and potential savings... ... which estimates your savings from reclaiming under used software installations. You can also see product risk with software
life cycle information like end of life and end of support. The SAS overview for Microsoft shows assigned subscriptions usage and spend, ... ... which helps youforecast future licensing needs. License usage lets you prioritize which publishers need your attention first. From here, we can drill down to see compliance for different Microsoft products. The software assurance feature helps you deploy,
manage and use your Microsoft products more efficiently. If your organization is enrolled in a program that includes software assurance, ... ... SAM automatically applies the program to trim licensing costs. Software assurance gives you access to the latest versions of Microsoft technology. Content libraries automatically update your software model and entitlements to the latest version,... ... with downgrade rights to license older versions. For license compliance, SAM offers a variety of licensing terms. Let's take a look. Microsoft SQL server database software is deployed on data center servers, ... ... and is licensed by the processor cores and the servers it's deployed on. Many organizations run SQL server on virtual machines to optimize the performance of physical servers. In addition, virtualization technology allows virtual machines to move between hosts in a cluster. With core based licensing, SAM keeps track of all this giving you an optimal license position. Organizations make thousands of I T
configuration changes,... ... which can result in significant unexpected cost. License change projection let's you see license costs from proposed configuration changes before you make the change. This helps you manage and approve these changes before you implement them. Software license costs are automatically
projected based on the proposed changes, ... ... and these projections are done natively within change management... ... so they can be considered during the change approval process. The user subscriptions feature lets users with
office 365 subscriptions use it anywhere, ... ... on any device with internet access,... ... using the same subscriptions. Alternatively, user based licensing gives you a
certain number of installations. For example, with four user based licenses,... ... any four users with the proper rights can access the software on any machines the software is installed on. These licenses save money when users need to install software
that's available in the cloud like Office 365,... ... locally on more than one machine. Microsoft Publisher pack also integrates with Azure AD to analyze usage across more than 3,400 SAS apps within SAM SAM also handles publishers that use both SAS and on premises components to report license position. In addition, SAM's SAS license connections framework let's you build low code integrations with any other SAS apps that provide usage API's,... ... so you can extract and analyze usage
information within SAM. SAM supports Microsoft products deployed in hybrid environments including on premises and public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. This helps you identify all your Microsoft
products as well as their license types,... ... like BYOL or license included. SAM reconciles Microsoft's licensing rules for
on premises and cloud deployments,... ... providing a single license position for all your Microsoft products. This keeps you compliant in the most cost effective way and ready for your next Microsoft contract renewal Microsoft Publisher pack for ServiceNow's Software Asset Management helps you manage license compliance,... ... optimize license usage, and reduce spend on Microsoft software assets deployed across your IT estate on premises or in the cloud. To learn more visit servicenow.com/SAM For more information, see our product documentation, knowledge base. Or podcast or ask a question in the service now community.