AI features for Software Asset Management Prime
Summary
Managing software assets is more complex than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. AI-powered Software Asset Management (SAM) helps organizations stay in control of their estate with the power of generative AI and AI Agents. From gaining real-time insights to automating repetitive work, it transforms how teams manage the software asset lifecycle. With intelligent automation and contextual guidance built into everyday workflows, staying compliant and optimizing software usage becomes second nature.
The Challenge
Software Asset Managers face growing pressure to maintain compliance, manage increasingly complex licensing terms, and respond to frequent audits—all while tracking massive amounts of data across the organization. Manual processes make it difficult to keep up, and reactive efforts often lead to unnecessary costs and last-minute fire drills.
The Solution
AI-powered Software Asset Management brings clarity and confidence to the role of SAM. Generative AI synthesizes data and policy information into meaningful, easy-to-understand summaries, enabling faster decision-making and proactive compliance. At the same time, AI Agents automate routine tasks, orchestrate workflows, and help enforce governance at scale. The result: better visibility, reduced risk, and more time to focus on strategic priorities.
Software Asset Management AI Prime (SAM AI Prime) includes the following key features:
- Publisher compliance summarization
- Product compliance summarization
- Recommended actions
- Agentic workflow: Help manage software requests
- Software Entitlement Allocation AI agent
- Purchase Order Creation AI agent
- Agentic workflow: Create software reclamation rule
- Software reclamation rule creation AI agent
- Agentic workflow: Evaluate software removal candidate
- Software removal candidate evaluation AI agent
- SaaS user resolution
- Resolve SaaS connection errors
- Contract entitlement data extraction
- Entitlement creation error handling
New feature:
- Entitlement creation error handling - This feature uses AI to suggest resolutions when users upload the standard Excel import template for entitlement creation.
For Software Asset Management AI Prime, the following plugins or store apps are required:
- Now Assist for Platform Foundation (sn_ai_plat_fdn:2.0.0)
- Now Assist for Platform Advanced (sn_ai_plat_adv:2.0.0)
- Now Assist for Platform Prime (sn_ai_plat_prm:2.0.0)
- Software Asset Management AI Advanced (sn_ai_sam_advanced:2.0.1)