Critical Environment Asset Workspace

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated October 1, 2025
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    Summary of Critical Environment Asset Workspace

    The Critical Environment Asset Workspace is the streamlined and intuitive interface within the Enterprise Asset Management for Data Center and Network Asset Management (DCNAM) application. It provides ServiceNow customers with a unified platform to gain comprehensive visibility and manage mission-critical facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets effectively throughout their entire life cycles.

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    This workspace consolidates multiple views tailored to different asset management needs, enabling efficient tracking, analytics, procurement, operations, and maintenance within critical environments.

    Key Features

    • Critical Environment Asset Overview: Displays important actions and quick links for active tasks to streamline user activity.
    • Asset Analytics: Monitors Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and asset performance through multiple tabs including Overview, Asset TCO, Asset Performance, Data Visualizations, and Inventory.
    • Inventory Management: Manages inventory and stockrooms with views of stockrooms, stock rules, transfer orders, audits, loaner assets, returns (RMA), repairs, recalls, reclamations, resale, and disposals.
    • Asset Estate Management: Enables viewing, creation, and management of facility-based and linear assets, including an indoor map feature (available with the Indoor Mapping for Assets application).
    • Model Management: Facilitates management of facility-based enterprise asset models, including creation, viewing, and categorization.
    • Procurement: Centralizes management of procurement requests, sourcing tasks, purchase orders, receiving slips, advance shipments, catalog tasks, and related activities.
    • Contract and Lease Management: Supports creation and management of contracts, lease agreements, renewals, approvals, and terms related to facility and linear assets.
    • Asset Operations: Tracks shipments, receiving, onboarding, moves, and lifecycle templates. Includes provider-based RMA and inbound orders for Device as a Service (DaaS) assets if the Enterprise Asset Management for Providers application is installed.
    • Work Management: Manages maintenance plans, work orders, tasks, calibrations, asset tasks, templates, and stockroom asset pickups.
    • Admin Center: Provides configuration and administrative capabilities such as bulk imports, model category creation, role assignments, workflow configurations, calibration, KPI, risk settings, shipping, knowledge base, and product catalog management.

    Key Outcomes

    • Enables holistic and efficient management of critical environment assets, reducing operational risks and improving asset lifecycle visibility.
    • Supports data-driven decision-making with detailed analytics on asset cost and performance.
    • Streamlines procurement, contract management, and asset operations to ensure timely and compliant asset handling.
    • Improves maintenance and work management processes, enhancing asset reliability and uptime.
    • Offers extensibility through integration points like indoor mapping and provider management applications, enhancing asset tracking and service management capabilities.

    The Critical Environment Asset Workspace is the intuitive and streamlined user interface of the Enterprise Asset Management for Data Center and Network Asset Management (DCNAM) application.

    Critical Environment Asset Workspace landscape

    The Critical Environment Asset Workspace is a unified medium with multiple views. These views give you comprehensive visibility into your mission-critical facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets so that you can manage them effectively throughout their life cycles.

    Critical Environment Asset Workspace views

    The Critical Environment Asset Workspace consists of the following views.Overview of the Critical Environment Asset Workspace.
    Table 1. Critical Environment Asset Workspace views
    View Description Available tabs or lists
    Critical Environment asset overview View important actions and quick links for active tasks. None
    Asset analytics Track the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and overall performance of your facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets.
    • Overview
    • Asset TCO
    • Asset performance
    • Data Visualizations
    Inventory View and manage the inventory and stockrooms for your facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets.
    • Overview
    • All stockrooms
    • Stock rules
    • Transfer orders
    • Asset audits
    • Loaner asset orders
    • RMA orders
    • RMA order lines
    • Repair orders
    • Recall orders
    • Reclamation requests
    • Resale orders
    • Disposal orders
    Critical Environment asset estate View, create, and manage facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets.
    • Overview
    • Asset indoor map
      Note:
      This tab appears only under the following conditions:
      • You've installed the Indoor Mapping for Assets application on your ServiceNow instance.
      • You've configured the option to display the tab.
      For more information, see Track assets using indoor maps in the Enterprise Asset Workspace.
    • Asset groups
    • Linear assets
    • All assets
    • All enterprise
    • Facility
    • Consumable
    Critical Environment model management View, create, and manage facility-based enterprise models.
    • Overview
    • All models
    • All enterprise
    • Facility
    Procurement View and manage all procurement details and activities, including procurement requests and sourcing tasks.
    • Overview
    • Requests
    • Requested items
    • Purchase orders
    • Receiving slips
    • Advance shipment
    • Catalog tasks
    Contract and lease management View, create, and manage contracts for your facility-based enterprise assets and linear assets.
    • Overview
    • All contracts
    • Lease contracts
    • Leased assets
    • Lease-end assets
    • Renewals
    • Renewal lines
    • My contracts
    • My contract tasks
    • My contract approvals
    • Terms and conditions
    Asset operations

    Track and manage shipments, stockroom receiving, onboarding, move orders, and calculated model life-cycle templates.

    If you have installed the Enterprise Asset Management for Providers application on your ServiceNow instance, you can also track and manage provider-based RMA response orders and inbound asset orders for Device as a Service (DaaS) assets.

    • Provider
      Note:
      This tab appears only if you've installed the Enterprise Asset Management for Providers application on your ServiceNow instance. For more information on this application, see Enterprise Asset Management for Providers.
    • Shipment
    • Stockroom receiving
    • Onboarding
    • Moves
    • Calculated model lifecycle
    Work management Create and manage maintenance plans, work orders, and work order tasks.
    • Overview
    • Calibrations and conditions
    • My Work
    • Maintenance plans
    • Work orders
    • Work order tasks
    • Asset tasks
    • Work order templates
    • Checklist templates
    • My stockroom assets
    • My asset pickup tasks
    Admin center Perform configuration and administrative tasks, including bulk imports and model category creation.
    • Model and asset tabs
    • Model categories
    • Model classifications
    • Failure and resolution
    • Site configuration
    • Linear asset types
    • Stockroom types
    • Bulk import
    • Roles-to-class access
    • Workflow assignments
    • Calibration configuration
    • Asset condition configuration
    • TCO configuration
    • KPI configuration
    • Risk configuration
    • Other configurations
    • Shipping
    • Asset knowledge base
    • Normalization opt-in
    • Product catalog
    • Reference lists