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title: Using Basic Software Asset Management workspace
description: Use the Software Asset Workspace, the intuitive and streamlined user interface of the Basic Software Asset Management application.
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product: Software Asset Management Foundation plugin
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# Using Basic Software Asset Management workspace

Use the Software Asset Workspace, the intuitive and streamlined user interface of the Basic Software Asset Management application.

The Basic Software Asset Management views let you create entitlements, software models, run and review reconciliation results, give visibility into your software assets, and provides access to analytics via dashboards.

The Software Asset workspace contains the following views:

-   Software asset overview: the landing page of the Software Asset Workspace. You can create entitlements, run reconciliation, view key metrics and get time sensitive alerts and notifications regarding your software assets.
-   License usage: You can view the compliance status of all your publishers, review reconciliation results, and view and run reports.
-   License operations: lists all the entitlements, software models, import entitlement errors, discovery models.

-   **[Software asset overview for Basic Software Asset Management dashboard](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/software-asset-management-foundation-plugin/software-asset-overview-samf.md)**  
Enhance your Basic Software Asset Management experience by using the modernized and user-friendly software asset overview dashboard. The software asset overview is a simplified and intuitive environment that helps you use the application more effectively by reducing complexity.
-   **[License usage view for Basic Software Asset Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/software-asset-management-foundation-plugin/license-usage-view-for-samf.md)**  
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.
-   **[License Operation view for Basic Software Asset Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/software-asset-management-foundation-plugin/license-operation-view-samf.md)**  
Use the License operations view in the Software Asset Workspace to view all your licenses and discovery models that are managed by the Basic Software Asset Management application.

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