JP2006039793A - Business system use charge accounting program and accounting device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute fair accounting to a user of an open system having a plurality of business systems. <P>SOLUTION: A use charge accounting program for a plurality of business systems managed by each corresponding server makes a computer execute: the procedure that obtains a scale proportion of an amount incurred for building each system to the all amount for building the systems; the procedure that obtains a use proportion of a use time by each user of each system to the total use time of each system; the procedure that multiplies the scale proportion by the use proportion, and obtains a standard value of accounting for each user of each system; and the procedure that, based on each standard value of accounting and a running cost of each system, obtains an amount of account to each user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a charging method for use of a business system, and more specifically, a business system use fee for charging a user for an open system provided with a plurality of business systems, for example, a fair charge for the use of a subsidiary. The present invention relates to a charging program and a charging apparatus.

  For example, a system usage form is widely used in which a parent company holds assets as a business system and subordinate subsidiaries use this system. Conventionally, for example, the number of accesses to the mainframe on the terminal side installed at the subsidiary is tabulated for each subsidiary from the log data on the mainframe side, and according to the tabulation result, the monthly running cost of the entire system is counted for each subsidiary. A format has been used in which a billing amount is determined or a charge is made according to the ratio between the access time to the system and the total operation time of the system.

  However, in the form of entering the open era, the parent company has an open system asset with multiple business systems and uses some of the systems as necessary from the subsidiary side. There is no clear and easy-to-understand standard, and it is difficult to maintain the fairness of billing. There may be a method that charges the monthly running cost of the entire system according to the sales scale and employee scale of the subsidiary, but the usage of the system and the amount of sales and the size of the subsidiary are not necessarily proportional, and charging is unfair It might end up becoming.

  Furthermore, among a plurality of business systems, for example, for a specific business system that uses only a specific subsidiary, the usage fee should be charged only to the subsidiary that uses the system, but simply accessing the entire system When charging according to time, there is a problem that charging becomes unfair to a subsidiary that does not use a system for specific business.

Also, billing data related to service usage in the dedicated connection service is measured at the user terminal, the data is transmitted to the server of the service provider via the Internet, and the data of the user terminal in the billing database is based on the data on the server side. There is a technique that can charge the user according to the actual usage situation of the user by updating (see Patent Document 1, for example). However, this technique cannot solve the problem that it is not possible to charge the users of the open system having a plurality of business systems fairly.
JP-A-10-190737

  In view of the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to charge a fair charge to users of an open system having a plurality of business systems based on the construction scale of each system, the usage time of each system, and the like. It is to provide a billing program and a billing apparatus that can perform the above.

  FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing the principle of the business system use fee billing program of the present invention. This figure is a functional block diagram of a usage fee billing program that is provided as an open system on the parent company side, for example, and that charges a fair amount to users of a plurality of business systems managed by respective servers, for example, subsidiaries. is there.

  In FIG. 1, a scale ratio calculation procedure for obtaining a scale ratio in which the construction amount of each business system occupies the construction amount of all the systems is executed in step S1, and then in step S2, each user, for example, a subsidiary, uses the business system. A usage ratio calculation procedure for obtaining a usage ratio of time taken for the total usage time of each system is executed, and in step S3, the scale ratio for each system is multiplied by the usage ratio for each user, so that each user for each system is A billing reference value calculation procedure for calculating a billing reference value is executed. In step S4, a billing for obtaining a billing amount for each user for using a plurality of business systems based on the billing reference value and the running cost of each system. An amount calculation procedure is executed.

In the present invention, a computer-readable portable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the steps corresponding to the functional blocks shown in FIG. 1 is used.
In the embodiment of the invention, in the charge amount calculation procedure in step S4 of FIG. 1, the charge reference value total value obtained by summing the charge reference value for each user for each system for all the systems, The charge amount for each user can also be calculated based on the result of multiplication with the total running cost of a plurality of business systems.

  In the charge amount calculation procedure, the common charge charge for each user is based on the result of multiplying the total charge reference value described above by the common charge total amount that cannot be divided for each system among the running costs of multiple business systems. Calculate the amount of money, and calculate the amount charged for each user's system for each system based on the result of multiplying the running cost of each system that can be divided into each system and the usage ratio of each user described above. The charge amount for each user can be calculated by adding the common charge charge amount for each user and the total charge amount for each system.

  Next, the usage fee billing apparatus of the present invention charges a usage fee for a plurality of business systems managed by respective servers, and includes a system usage time storage unit, a usage ratio calculation unit, a scale ratio calculation unit, A charging reference value calculating unit and a charging amount calculating unit are provided.

  The system usage time storage means stores the usage time of each user for each business system, for example, each client of each subsidiary, and the usage ratio calculation means uses the stored contents of the system usage time storage means for each business. The usage ratio of each user to the system, for example, the usage time of each subsidiary, is calculated to calculate the usage ratio of the total usage time of each system. The charging reference value calculating means calculates the charging reference value for each user for each system based on the multiplication result of the scale ratio for each system and the usage ratio for each user. The billing amount calculation means uses each billing standard value and each system's running cost based on the running cost of each system. It is intended to determine the amount billed to the use person.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to fairly determine the charge amount corresponding to the running cost of the system based on the system construction amount and the usage time of each user for each system.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an open system in which the accounting method of the present invention is used. In the present invention, there is a server for each of a plurality of business systems, and each business system is managed by each server. Therefore, the subsidiary side access to each business system by the server's IP address or the like is, for example, to the subsidiary. It is assumed that it is managed for each client to which it belongs.

  In the system shown in FIG. 2, a router 5 is connected to each of the personnel salary system server 1, accounting system server 2, production logistics system server 3, and sales management system server 4, and a charging device 6 is connected to the router 5. Yes. These devices are provided as open systems, for example, on the parent company or holding company side.

For example, a plurality of subsidiary personal computers are connected to the router 5 via a network. That is, the subsidiary A personal computer 8 _A , the subsidiary B personal computer 8 _B , and the subsidiary C personal computer 8 _C are connected. For example, the subsidiary A personal computer 8 _A is used by the subsidiary A, for example, the client a, the client b, and the client c as employees. And

  The router 5 includes a memory 7. The memory 7 stores IP addresses and communication time data of servers and clients as communication partners via the router 5. The data is stored as log data. It is output to the billing device 6. The accounting device 6 matches the output log data with, for example, the client management ledger data, quantifies the amount of systems used by clients belonging to which subsidiary, and determines the accounting amount based on the result To do.

  FIG. 3 is a specific example of log data stored in the memory 7 inside the router 5 of FIG. In the figure, in correspondence with the sequence number, the IP address of the client that accessed one of the system servers, the IP address of the server of the business system to be accessed, and the access time as the usage time are stored. It is possible to calculate which client has used which business system by how many hours each client has accessed which business system, for example, by monthly aggregation using such log data. . Although not directly related to the present invention, it is possible to identify which person in charge of which organization of which subsidiary has accessed which business system by specifying the client.

  FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a specific example of determining the charge amount corresponding to the monthly running cost. In this figure, the usage times of subsidiary A, subsidiary B, and subsidiary C for the four systems in FIG. 2 are tabulated, and charging corresponding to the monthly running cost is performed according to the scale ratio of each system.

  First, the scale ratio of each business system is calculated in advance. The construction scale (amount) of each system, that is, the introduction cost (including package price, add-on / customization cost, hardware price, middleware program package, SE cost, etc.) The ratio of the construction amount is calculated as the scale ratio.

  The system usage time is counted for each system and each subsidiary. For example, the usage time of a personnel salary system, for example, is calculated that the usage time for one month is 1000 minutes for subsidiary A, 500 minutes for subsidiary B, and 100 minutes for subsidiary C, and the usage ratio of each subsidiary to the total 1600 minutes, That is, 63%, 31%, and 6% are required. Subsidiary B and subsidiary C do not have a production function and therefore do not use the production distribution system at all.

  Next, a charging reference value for each subsidiary for each system is obtained based on the size ratio and the usage ratio. That is, the scale ratio (%) and the usage ratio (%) are multiplied, and the multiplication result is divided by 100 to obtain the charging reference value. The charging standard values for the personnel salary system are 6.3, 3.1, and 0.6 for subsidiaries A, B, and C, respectively.

  A billing amount corresponding to the monthly running cost is determined based on the billing reference value. Here, it is assumed that the monthly running cost is a total for all systems corresponding to the first embodiment described with reference to FIG. 5, and is, for example, labor cost or database usage fee and cannot be divided for each system. By multiplying the monthly running cost of 9.5 million yen by the billing standard value corresponding to the personnel salary system, the billing amount per subsidiary for the use of the personnel salary system is 598,500 for the subsidiaries A, B, and C, respectively. Calculated as Yen, 294,500 Yen, 57,000 Yen. Such billing amounts for each system are totaled for all systems to determine the total billing amount for each subsidiary.

  Alternatively, the accounting standard values calculated for each system are totaled for all the systems for each subsidiary, and 66.5, 24, and 9.5 are obtained as the total values for subsidiaries A, B, and C. By using it as a percentage of the monthly running cost, the total charge amount of 6,317,500 yen, 2,280,000 yen, 902,500 yen for subsidiaries A, B, and C is determined as the charge amount for the entire system. The In FIG. 4, the total usage time and the total usage ratio of all the systems for each subsidiary are calculated at the bottom. This value is used in the third embodiment of FIG.

Here, the calculation of the charge amount for each subsidiary will be described more generally. First, as a total of access times A _lj of each client (index: l) to each business system (server, index: j), the usage time B _ij of each system of each subsidiary (index: i) is the next. It is calculated by the formula.

Next, the usage ratio C _ij of each system of each subsidiary is obtained from the total usage time D _j and B _ij for each system by the following equation.
C _ij = B _ij / D _j
On the other hand, the scale ratio G _{j of} each system is obtained by the following equation from the construction cost F _{j of} each system and the total construction cost E of all systems.

G _j = F _j / E
Using this G _j and C _ij , the charging reference value H _ij for each subsidiary system and the total value I _i for each subsidiary are obtained by the following equation.

Finally, by multiplying I _i by the monthly running cost, the billing amount K _i for each subsidiary is calculated by the following equation.
K _i = J × I _i
This calculation corresponds to the first embodiment described later.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the accounting process in the first embodiment. In this figure, as described with reference to FIG. 4, the billing amount determination process corresponding to the monthly running cost will be described assuming that the monthly running cost cannot be divided for each system at all.

When the process is started in FIG. 5, the usage time A _lj of each system (j) for each client (l) is calculated in step S10, for example, in units of one month, and each system of each subsidiary (i) is calculated in step S11. The usage time of (j) is calculated as B _ij by adding the usage time for each client. In step S12, the usage ratio C _ij is calculated as the ratio of the usage time of each system of each subsidiary to the total usage time for each system. Is done.

On the other hand, in step S13, the scale ratio G _{j of} each system is calculated. As described with reference to FIG. 4, this calculation can be performed in advance prior to the charge amount calculation process. Subsequently, in step S14, the charging reference value H _ij of each user for each system is obtained using the usage ratio C _ij and the scale ratio G _j, and in step S15, H _ij is summed for all the systems. The user's charging reference value total I _i is calculated. In step S16, the common running cost J of all the systems is multiplied by I _i , the billing amount K _i for each user is calculated, and the process ends.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the accounting process in the second embodiment. The second embodiment has a portion that can be divided for each system in the monthly running cost of the system, and a common cost that cannot be divided. The common cost that cannot be divided is charged in the same manner as in the first embodiment. The amount of money is calculated, and for the running cost of each system that can be divided, the amount of money charged for each system is calculated, and both are added to calculate the amount of money charged to each subsidiary.

In FIG. 6, the processing from step S10 to step S16 is basically the same as that in FIG. 5. After the charge amount for the common running cost is calculated in step S16, the running that can be divided for each system in step S17. The expense is multiplied by the usage ratio C _ij to calculate a charge amount increase K _i ′ for each user. In step S18, K _i and K _i ′ are added to calculate the total charge amount, and the process is terminated.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the accounting process in the third embodiment. In the third embodiment, it is assumed that the monthly running cost is charged in accordance with the usage ratio of all the systems for each subsidiary without using the system scale ratio.

  When processing is started in FIG. 7, the usage time of each system for each client is calculated in step S20, and the usage time of each system for each subsidiary is calculated by adding the usage time for each client in step S21. In step S22, the total use time of all the systems for each subsidiary is calculated by adding the use time to all the systems.

  Subsequently, in step S23, the total usage time of all systems is added to calculate the total usage time of all systems, and the value obtained in step S22 in step S24 is divided by the value obtained in step S23. Thus, the total system usage ratio for each subsidiary is calculated, and in step S25, the usage ratio and the total running cost are multiplied to calculate the billing amount, and the process ends. For example, if there is a portion that can be divided into each system in the monthly running cost, the running cost for each system is calculated using the usage time of each system for each subsidiary obtained in step S21 as in FIG. It is also possible to calculate the total billing amount by calculating the billing amount increase based on this and adding the value to the common cost obtained in step S25.

  In the third embodiment, the scale ratio is not taken into consideration, but as in the first and second embodiments, access to the server of each system of each client is distinguished by the router 5 in FIG. Log data in a format that can be recorded and stored in the memory 7, so that the business system used by the client can be specified, the department that uses the business system, the department to which the client belongs, and the actual person in charge It is also possible.

  Although the details of the business system use fee billing program and billing device of the present invention have been described above, this billing device can naturally be configured on the basis of a general computer system. FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of such a computer system, that is, a hardware environment.

  In FIG. 8, the computer system includes a central processing unit (CPU) 10, a read only memory (ROM) 11, a random access memory (RAM) 12, a communication interface 13, a storage device 14, an input / output device 15, and a portable storage medium reading device. 16 and a bus 17 to which all of these are connected.

  As the storage device 14, various types of storage devices such as a hard disk and a magnetic disk can be used. Such a storage device 14 or a program stored in the ROM 11 as shown in the flowcharts of FIGS. The programs of claims 1 to 4 of the claims are stored, and such a program is executed by the CPU 10 so that the scale ratio of each system and the usage ratio of each subsidiary in the present embodiment is fair. The billing amount can be determined.

  Such a program is stored in, for example, the storage device 14 from the program provider 18 via the network 19 and the communication interface 13, or stored in a portable storage medium 20 that is commercially available and distributed, It can also be set in the reader 16 and executed by the CPU 10. As the portable storage medium 20, various types of storage media such as a CD-ROM, a flexible disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, and a DVD can be used, and a program stored in such a storage medium is read by the reader 16. By being read, it becomes possible to charge the user of the open system in this embodiment fairly.

It is a principle functional block diagram of the business system utilization charge billing program of the present invention. 1 is an overall configuration block diagram of an open system in which a charging system of the present invention is used. It is explanatory drawing of the log data regarding the access to a business system. It is a figure which shows the specific example of the charge amount calculation corresponding to a monthly running expense. It is a flowchart of the accounting process in a 1st Example. It is a flowchart of the accounting process in a 2nd Example. It is a flowchart of the accounting process in a 3rd Example. It is a figure explaining the loading to the computer of the program for implement | achieving this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Personnel salary system server 2 Accounting system server 3 Production logistics system server 4 Sales management system server 5 Router 6 Billing device 7 Memory 8 Subsidiary PC 10 Central processing unit (CPU)
11 Read-only memory (ROM)
12 Random access memory (RAM)
13 Communication Interface 14 Storage Device 15 Input / Output Device 16 Reading Device 17 Bus 18 Program Provider 19 Network 20 Portable Storage Medium

Claims (5)

A usage charge billing program for a plurality of business systems each managed by a corresponding server,
A scale ratio calculation procedure for obtaining a scale ratio of the construction amount of each business system to the construction amount of all business systems;
A usage ratio calculation procedure for obtaining a usage ratio of the usage time of each user for each business system to the total usage time of each business system;
A charging reference value calculation procedure for calculating a charging reference value for each user for each business system by multiplying the scale ratio for each business system by the usage ratio for each user;
Business system usage fee billing for causing a computer to execute a billing amount calculation procedure for obtaining a billing amount to each user for use of the plurality of business systems based on the billing reference value and a running cost of each business system program. In the billing amount calculation procedure,
Based on the result of multiplying the charging reference value total value obtained by adding up the charging reference values for each user for each business system for all business systems for each user and the total running cost of the plurality of business systems. 2. The business system use fee billing program according to claim 1, wherein a billing amount for each user is calculated. In the billing amount calculation procedure,
The charging standard value total value obtained by summing the charging standard value for each user for each business system for all business systems for each user and the common cost that cannot be divided for each system among the running costs of the plurality of business systems Based on the result of multiplying the total cost, calculate the common cost charged for each user,
Based on the result of multiplying the running cost by system cost that can be divided into each system and the usage ratio of each user, the cost billing cost per system for each user is calculated,
2. The business system usage fee billing program according to claim 1, wherein a billing amount for each user is calculated by adding together a common cost billing amount for each user and a total amount for each system. A storage medium used by a computer for calculating a usage charge for a plurality of business systems managed by respective servers,
Obtaining a scale ratio of the construction amount of each business system to the construction amount of all business systems;
Obtaining a usage ratio of each user's usage time for each business system to the total usage time of each business system;
Multiplying the scale ratio for each business system by the usage ratio for each user to obtain a charging reference value for each user for each business system;
A business system usage fee billing program for causing a computer to execute a step of obtaining a billing amount to each user for use of the plurality of business systems based on the billing reference value and a running cost of each business system is stored. Computer-readable portable storage media. A billing device that calculates usage fees for a plurality of business systems managed by respective servers,
System usage time storage means for storing the usage time of each user for each business system;
Using the storage contents of the system usage time storage means, a usage ratio calculation means for obtaining a usage ratio of the usage time of each user for each business system in the total usage time of each business system;
A scale ratio calculating means for obtaining a scale ratio of the construction amount of each business system to the construction amount of all business systems;
A charging reference value calculating means for calculating a charging reference value for each user for each business system based on a multiplication result of the scale ratio for each business system and the usage ratio for each user;
A business system usage fee billing characterized by comprising billing amount calculation means for obtaining a billing amount to each user for use of the plurality of business systems based on the billing reference value and a running cost of each business system apparatus.

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