Management policy evaluation system and recording medium storing management policy evaluation program

• US 8,135,797 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Issued: 03/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yasuhide, Yasaki, Masatomo, Uyama, Masashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Follansbee, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Daftuar, Saket K
• Application Number:
  US11/236,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20070002762A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,358 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/217, 370/252, 705/10, 705/400, 705/4, 705/7, 705/8, 705/14, 705/27, 705/37
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00

Abstract

A management policy evaluation system for evaluating a management policy includes: a demand recording part for recording demand data representing a change in a value of a demand in a predetermined period; a supply recording part for recording supply data representing a change in a value of a supply in the predetermined period; a calculation part for comparing the demand data with the supply data, so as to calculate shortage/surplus data representing a change in shortage/surplus of an IT resource with respect to the demand in the predetermined period; and an evaluation part for generating evaluation data representing a loss or a profit to be created when the IT resource is assigned based on the management policy.

Claims

1. A management policy evaluation system constituted by a computer including a processor and a memory, for evaluating a management policy that establishes a rule for assigning an IT resource to be provided in a system that offers service to a user, in accordance with a state of use by the user, the evaluation system comprising:

a demand recording part implemented by the memory for recording demand data representing a change in a value of a demand for the service from the user in a predetermined period, the value of the demand being expressed as an operating amount of the IT resource;

a supply recording part implemented by the memory for recording supply data representing a change in a value of a supply of the service to be provided by the IT resource to be assigned based on the management policy in the predetermined period, the value of the supply being expressed as the operating amount;

a calculation part implemented by the processor for calculating shortage/surplus data representing a change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource with respect to the demand in the predetermined period by using the demand data recorded in the demand recording part and the supply data recorded in the supply recording part;

an evaluation part implemented by the processor for converting the change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource represented by the shortage/surplus data calculated by the calculation part into evaluation data representing a quantified business judgment index value; and

a value scale data recording part implemented by the memory for recording an association data that associates shortage/surplus of the IT resource with the quantified business judgment index value,

wherein the evaluation part converts the shortage/surplus data into the evaluation data using the association data recorded in the value scale data recording part, and

wherein the evaluation part generates data representing an amount of opportunity loss as the evaluation data based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a shortage in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand, and generates data representing an amount of over-investment as the evaluation based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a surplus in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand.

2. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the demand data are obtained by simulation based on a demand-forecasting model that is data representing a pattern of the change in the demand for the service from the user.

3. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 1,

wherein the demand data are generated based on log data representing the state of use of the service by the user or an operating state of the IT resource, and

the supply data are generated based on the log data.

4. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 1,

wherein the supply recording part records the supply data with respect to each of a plurality of different management policies,

the calculation part calculates the shortage/surplus data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies, and

the evaluation part generates the evaluation data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies,

the evaluation system further comprising a display part for displaying the evaluation data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies so as to allow comparison between the evaluation data.

5. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 1,

wherein the supply recording part records supply data representing a change in the value of the supply in the predetermined period when a plurality of different management policies are used in different periods, respectively, within the predetermined period for the assignment of the IT resource, and

the evaluation part generates the evaluation data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies.

6. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a performance recording part implemented by the memory for recording management performance data including log data representing a state of use of the service by the user or an operating state of the IT resource and profit/loss data representing an amount of a profit or a loss created in the past by the user using the service; and

a scale information generation part implemented by the processor for generating the association data based on the management performance data.

7. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 1,

wherein the value scale data recording part records a plurality of value scale data in a plurality of different systems,

the scale information generation part generates standard value scale data based on the plurality of value scale data, and

the evaluation part generates the evaluation data using the standard value scale data.

8. A non-transitory recording medium storing a management policy evaluation program for allowing a computer to execute processing of evaluating a management policy that establishes a rule for assigning an IT resource to be provided in a system that offers service to a user, in accordance with a state of use by the user, the management policy evaluation program allowing the computer to execute:

calculation processing of using demand data representing a change in a value of a demand for the service from the user in a predetermined period, the value of the demand being expressed as an operating amount of the IT resource, and supply data representing a change in a value of a supply of the service to be provided by the IT resource to be assigned based on the management policy in the predetermined period, the value of the supply being expressed as the operating amount, so as to calculate shortage/surplus data representing a change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource with respect to the demand in the predetermined period; and

evaluation processing of converting the change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource represented by the shortage/surplus data calculated by the calculation processing into evaluation data representing a quantified business judgment index value, by using association data that associates shortage/surplus of the IT resource with the quantified business judgment index value,

wherein the evaluation processing generates data representing an amount of opportunity loss as the evaluation data based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a shortage in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand, and generates data representing an amount of over-investment as the evaluation based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a surplus in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand.

9. A management policy evaluation system constituted by a computer including a processor and a memory, for evaluating a management policy that establishes a rule for assigning an IT resource to be provided in a system that offers service to a user, in accordance with a state of use by the user, the evaluation system comprising:

a demand recording part implemented by the memory for recording demand data representing a change in a value of a demand for the service from the user in a predetermined period, the value of the demand being expressed as an operating amount of the IT resource;

a supply recording part implemented by the memory for recording supply data representing a change in a value of a supply of the service to be provided by the IT resource to be assigned based on the management policy in the predetermined period, the value of the supply being expressed as the operating amount;

a calculation part implemented by the processor for calculating shortage/surplus data representing a change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource with respect to the demand in the predetermined period by using the demand data recorded in the demand recording part and the supply data recorded in the supply recording part;

an evaluation part implemented by the processor for converting the change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource represented by the shortage/surplus data calculated by the calculation part into evaluation data representing a quantified business judgment index value;

a value scale data recording part implemented by the memory for recording an association data that associates shortage/surplus of the IT resource with the quantified business judgment index value;

a performance recording part implemented by the memory for recording management performance data including log data representing a state of use of the service by the user or an operating state of the IT resource and profit/loss data representing an amount of profit and loss created in the past by the user using the service; and

a scale information generation part implemented by the processor for generating the association data based on the management performance data,

wherein the evaluation part converts the shortage/surplus data into the evaluation data using the association data recorded in the value scale data recording part, and

wherein the evaluation part generates data representing an amount of opportunity loss as the evaluation data based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a shortage in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand, and generates data representing an amount of over-investment as the evaluation based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a surplus in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand.

10. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 9, wherein the demand data are obtained by simulation based on a demand-forecasting model that is data representing a pattern of the change in the demand for the service from the user.

11. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 9,

wherein the demand data are generated based on log data representing the state of use of the service by the user or an operating state of the IT resource, and

the supply data are generated based on the log data.

12. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 9,

wherein the supply recording part records the supply data with respect to each of a plurality of different management policies,

the calculation part calculates the shortage/surplus data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies, and

the evaluation part generates the evaluation data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies,

the evaluation system further comprising a display part for displaying the evaluation data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies so as to allow comparison between the evaluation data.

13. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 9,

wherein the supply recording part records supply data representing a change in the value of the supply in the predetermined period when a plurality of different management policies are used in different periods, respectively, within the predetermined period for the assignment of the IT resource, and

the evaluation part generates the evaluation data with respect to each of the plurality of management policies.

14. The management policy evaluation system according to claim 9,

wherein the value scale data recording part records a plurality of value scale data in a plurality of different systems,

the scale information generation part generates standard value scale data based on the plurality of value scale data, and

the evaluation part generates the evaluation data using the standard value scale data.

15. A non-transitory recording medium storing a management policy evaluation program for allowing a computer to execute processing of evaluating a management policy that establishes a rule for assigning an IT resource to be provided in a system that offers service to a user, in accordance with a state of use by the user, the management policy evaluation program allowing the computer to execute:

calculation processing of using demand data representing a change in a value of a demand for the service from the user in a predetermined period, the value of the demand being expressed as an operating amount of the IT resource, and supply data representing a change in a value of a supply of the service to be provided by the IT resource to be assigned based on the management policy in the predetermined period, the value of the supply being expressed as the operating amount, so as to calculate shortage/surplus data representing a change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource with respect to the demand in the predetermined period;

evaluation processing of converting the change in shortage/surplus of the IT resource represented by the shortage/surplus data calculated by the calculation processing into evaluation data representing a quantified business judgment index value, by using association data that associates shortage/surplus of the IT resource with the quantified business judgment index value;

recording management performance data including log data representing a state of use of the service by the user or an operating state of the IT resource and profit/loss data representing an amount of a profit or a loss created in the past by the user using the service; and

generating the association data based on the management performance data,

wherein the evaluation processing converts the shortage/surplus data into the evaluation data using the association data, and

wherein the evaluation processing generates data representing an amount of opportunity loss as the evaluation data based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a shortage in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand, and generates data representing an amount of over-investment as the evaluation based on, among the shortage/surplus data, data representing a surplus in the value of the supply with respect to the value of the demand.