ServiceNow Xanadu - Software Asset Management: Software Inventory Analytics
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Sep 10, 2024
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[Music] hello everyone my name is Maria marisan Leon I'm a senior solution consultant here at service now bringing you the now platform zanadu release focusing on it asset management software Asset Management today I'll be showing you the enhancements for software Asset Management focusing on software inventory analytics with our zanadu release this presentation may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the current beliefs of service now and are based on the current information available these forward-looking statements should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions Sam managers implementing software Asset Management often struggle with limited visibility to cmdb information to analyze software inventory issue before diving into software license compliance this can prolong the implementation process and delay customers from deriving value software inventory analytics helps reduce time to value with a zero software inventory and end of life reporting Sam managers can then examine issues pertaining to Discovery normalization end of life and version sprawl then address them using the integrated workflow and here we are with our software asset workspace and in the software asset analytics module we're looking at the discovered inventory dashboard here so using your software inventory analytics helps customers Implement software Asset Management really gain value quicker thanks to that increased cmdb visibility so with this discovered inventory dashboard you are able to view your licensable discovered software and devices as well as this dashboard giving you that insight into your software products with multiple and potentially older versions that can result in security and compliance risk which is at that bottom that I'm going to be showing you you can filter by product or publisher and you can also select any reports so that you can see more information on any of your software installation so here you can see your software installation count your software installation by Discovery sources where that's coming from what is your highest number of software installs and where they're at the install deployment by environment type as well as installs across your hybrid infrastructure you also have your Cloud installs by license type here as well as your server your cluster your client device and your container account and as mentioned before your software proliferation information where you can review multiple and potentially older software versions that may lead to security and compliance risk that you obviously want to avoid and that is discovered inventory in the zanadu release now moving on to our life cycle management here you're able to now see where Sam managers can leverage dashboard insights to examine issues and anticipate risk to remediate some of those end of life software so here you can review and track the end life software products in your asset estate to really reduce risk associated with software products that are reaching or possibly have reached end of life here you're able to see that product life cycle overview your current and Past end of life product life cycles and here you can really do a comparison on year-to-year basis of any of your end of life extended support end of life and end of support um here here you have your end of life workflow stages and where they're at end of life workflow actions and any upcoming endof life product life cycle within that next 18 months so with this two new features from zanadu using our software inventory analytics Sam managers gain value quicker thanks to that increased cmdb visibility as well as leverage dashboard insights to really examine issues and anticipate risk to remediate your endof life software support thank you for watching our now platform zanadu release focusing on software asset management software inventory analytics feature for more information on our products please check our product website at docs. servicenow.com
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