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title: License usage view for Basic Software Asset Management
description: Use the license usage view as a single plane to understand the license position of all software products, remediate non compliance, and view reconciliation results.
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# License usage view for Basic Software Asset Management

Use the license usage view as a single plane to understand the license position of all software products, remediate non compliance, and view reconciliation results.

The License usage view lets your organizations license usage trends and helps forecast the needs of your organization by trending the number of licenses required against the number of licenses purchased. Stay in compliance by purchasing additional rights before software consumption surpasses the number of rights owned.

You can access the License usage view by navigating to **Software asset** > **Software Asset Workspace** > **License usage**.

\[Omitted image "license-usage-samf.png"\] Alt text: License usage view

Use the License usage view to:

-   filter by domain and compliance status.
-   sort by True-up cost, over-licensed amount, and potential savings.
-   run reconciliation and view its results.
-   be informed about the last reconciliation run.
-   view and export reports.

-   **[Run Basic Software Asset Management software reconciliation in workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/software-asset-management-foundation-plugin/run-samf-software-recon-workspace.md)**  
Reconciliation is run as a scheduled job \(default is weekly\), but you can also run reconciliation manually to reconcile software products in the Software Asset Workspace environment on-demand.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Basic Software Asset Management workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/software-asset-management-foundation-plugin/using-samf-workspace.md)