Members of the association include IT asset, software, configuration and IT service management professionals. IBSMA estimates the community of software asset managers to be more than 10,000, with practitioners in commercial, non-profit and government organizations worldwide. IBSMA know that IT asset management (ITAM) and software asset management are cross-functional, multi-disciplinary practices with a unique way of looking at the financial and operational tasks associated with managing the life cycle of IT assets.