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# Subscriptions for Software Asset Management

# Subscriptions for Software Asset Management {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Australia
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* Updated March 12, 2026
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

The ServiceNow platform uses a licensing method where your
organization is charged for using the IT Asset Management applications- ServiceNow
Software Asset Management.

Software Asset Management licensing is based on the resource categories you use. To calculate costs, Software Asset Management uses Subscription Units, a standardized unit of measure for managed IT resources, applied through defined ratios.

Since the value of managing different types of IT resources varies, Subscription Units use these ratios to reflect that difference. This allows a single unit price to be applied consistently across different IT resource types. To
learn more about managed IT resources and subscription unit ratios, see the Subscription Unit Overview on the <https://www.servicenow.com/products/entitlements-packages.html>.
* **[Managed IT Resource types](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/HNCZpkPgK3~3DoE9MHvX0A)**   
  There are five IT Resource categories in ServiceNow Software Asset Management - Server, End User Computing Device, SaaS Subscription User, PaaS Resources, and IaaS Storage.
* **[View license report for the IT Asset Management application](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/6YNoqyIounYmpNfL~F_E3Q)**   
  Resources that the IT Asset Management applications discover, monitor, and provision are configuration items (CIs) stored in the CMDB. The ITAM licensing module combines this information on CIs with the information on subscriptions your organization purchased to produce statistics on subscription use by IT Asset Management applications.