JP5486930B2 - Information management display device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for collecting information from a plurality of information providing devices and displaying the information in an integrated manner, and relates to a method for doing this and various devices such as an information integrated display device and an information providing device. In particular, the present invention relates to a device that enables business managers to comprehensively grasp management information of each subsidiary.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, systems in which corporate managers grasp management information such as sales and profits of subsidiaries, business units, bases, and departments in real time through a network have become widespread.

  The management information of each subsidiary is input to the information providing device by manual input by a person in charge at the site or by automatic input by a business system. The management information input to each information providing apparatus is transmitted to the server at the head office through the network, and the management aggregates the collected management information and confirms the performance of each subsidiary and the management status of the company. In this way, by collecting management information through the network, the company's management information can be grasped almost in real time, and decisions necessary for management can be made quickly.

  For the purpose of “providing an officer information system with quick response” in Patent Document 1, “summary data having a matrix of organizations and time series assumed to be necessary in advance” is created. The graph data 17 specified in the document 22 is downloaded from the server 1 and displayed by the function of the graph display control 24. The graph display control 24 is downloaded from the server 1 when it first operates and is stored in the client 2. Because it is retained, it will not be downloaded every time it is accessed, unless the function has been revised. "

JP2000-194766

  If the size of the company is large, if the number of subsidiaries is large and the bases are expanding overseas, the network between each base and the headquarters is not well established. May not be introduced at once. In addition, the management information input to the information providing device may be delayed due to manual entry by the person in charge, or if it is automatically entered, it may be delayed due to a trouble with the input source device. There may be cases where automatic input is not performed.

  Under such circumstances, the managers must confirm whether the management information collected and displayed on the information management display device is highly fresh information updated within a predetermined period, or what percentage of the predetermined bases determined by the manager. There is a problem that you do not know whether the information is input from the base. In other words, it is impossible to quantitatively know whether the information is kept fresh until at least after the system at the predetermined site is operated or after the operation.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to graphically display the rate at which management information is updated within a predetermined period, and to quantitatively present the freshness and reliability of the management information.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, information is collected from each information providing apparatus, and processing including display according to freshness of information is executed. Here, the freshness indicates how much information is new or updated. The freshness is calculated based on whether or not the items match with the past information. This is to estimate whether the information has been updated by using the result of the comparison, and based on this, the freshness is judged.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to quantitatively present the ratio (estimated result) that management information from each subsidiary or business division has been updated within a predetermined period, thereby enabling managers to trust their management information. It becomes possible to quantitatively grasp the characteristics and use it for management judgment.

The whole block diagram of an information provision apparatus and an information integrated display apparatus. The flowchart of the information provision apparatus and information management display apparatus in a 1st Example. The management information table of the information provision apparatus in the 1st and 2nd Example. The management information table of the information integrated display apparatus in the 1st and 2nd Example. The calculation explanatory schematic diagram of the freshness calculation means in the 1st example. The management information graph of the information display means in the 1st and 2nd Example. The freshness graph of the freshness display means in the first and second embodiments. The flowchart of the information provision apparatus in a 2nd Example. The flowchart of the information integrated display apparatus in a 2nd Example. The calculation explanatory schematic of the freshness calculation means in a 2nd Example.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail. The first embodiment is an example in which predetermined management information is displayed, and a case where the freshness of management information is immediately calculated when management information is sent to the information management display device will be described. The second embodiment is an example in which management information is displayed in response to a manager's request, and a case where the freshness of management information is calculated at the time of request will be described.

  FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the information providing apparatus 110 and the information overall display apparatus 100. In general, there are a plurality of information providing devices 110, each of which exists in a company subsidiary. The information management display device 100 is generally one, and the manager of the head office can refer to the management information of each subsidiary.

  The information providing apparatus 110 and the information general display apparatus 100 are connected via a network, and encryption, data encoding, transmission / reception, data decryption, encryption decryption, and the like are performed, and management information can be transmitted. ing.

First, the information providing apparatus 110 will be described.
In the input means 111, sales information, profits, and free cash flow (hereinafter referred to as FCF) are manually input from a person in charge of management information input at each subsidiary through a keyboard. Alternatively, when the sales are managed by another business system, they are converted into a predetermined file format from another business system and automatically input through the network. In addition, a semiconductor memory or an optical disk may be input as a medium.

  An input date and time is given to the inputted management information by the update date and time giving means 112. The input date / time consists of at least the date. Hours, minutes and seconds may be added as necessary.

  Management information including items such as sales, profit, and FCF, their amounts, and each update date and time is stored in the individual DB 113. Here, DB means a database (DataBase). Even if management information is input at any time, it is not overwritten in the individual DB 113 but is stored while taking a history. Even if the information in the DB included in the information overall display device 100 is lost or disappears, it is stored so that it can be restored.

  The stored management information is given the name of the subsidiary of the transmission source by the transmission unit 114, encoded in a format according to the protocol of the network 120, and transmitted through the communication interface. At this time, since the management information is confidential information, the company-specific encryption may be applied.

Next, the information overall display device 100 will be described.
The receiving means 102 receives management information from the network 120 through a communication interface and decodes it according to a predetermined protocol. If encrypted, it is also decrypted.

  The decrypted management information is stored in the integrated DB 103 in the same format as the individual DB 113 for each subsidiary of the information provider. Here, management information from a plurality of information providing apparatuses is stored.

  The management information stored for each subsidiary is categorized by the DB management means 101 into a table for each item of sales, profit, and FCF, and a table so that the transition of sales etc. for each subsidiary can be displayed in time series by item. Are organized.

  The management information arranged by item is displayed on the display by the information display means 104. As shown in the management information graph 600 of FIG. 6, the display example is displayed as a line graph with the horizontal axis indicating the month and the vertical axis indicating the amount of money. Not only line graphs but also bar graphs, pie graphs, and other formats may be used.

Next, the freshness calculation means 105, which is a feature part of this embodiment, will be described.
The freshness calculation unit 105 determines whether the information is input / updated within a predetermined period, for example, in the current month, based on the date / time given by the update date / time giving unit 112. And the management information updated in September accounts for what percentage of the total information that should be updated in September, the non-update ratio, the date and time have been updated, but the same value (same amount) as the previous month Calculate the percentage. The reason for calculating the ratio of the same value as the previous month is, for example, if the sales are the same amount as the previous month, or it is the same amount as the previous month, or the estimated amount is the same amount as the previous month in order to comply with the deadline, although the sales amount is not fixed This is because it is unclear whether it has been entered as, and there is concern over a decline in the reliability of information.

  Then, the ratio updated in September this month, the ratio equivalent to the previous month, and the ratio not updated this month are calculated, and the graph is displayed on the display by the freshness display means 106. The display example is displayed as a pie chart as shown in the freshness graph 700 of FIG. In addition, this graph may be other than a pie chart, and it is sufficient that each ratio can be displayed quantitatively and visually.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the contents of processing using the information providing apparatus 110 and the information overall display apparatus 100 in this embodiment.

  Management information input processing is started in the information providing apparatus of FIG. 2 (S201). Here, the information providing device is activated, and it has been confirmed that the keyboard for inputting information and the storage device for storing information operate normally. Next, the information providing apparatus acquires sales, profits, and FCF data manually or automatically (S202). In the case of manual acquisition, the person in charge inputs 1 million yen in sales, 100,000 yen in profit, and 200,000 yen in FCF through the keyboard. In the case of automatic acquisition, the information providing device sends a request code for sales, profit and FCF to the financial system from which information is input every 24 hours, and the financial system responds to the request code with sales, profit, Return FCF. Subsequently, an update date is given to the input management information (S203).

  Here, sales, profit, FCF items, amounts of 1 million yen, 100,000 yen, 200,000 yen, and 9/3 date / time are given to the input data table. A table to which this date is assigned is called an individual data table. Then, the management information is temporarily stored in the individual DB provided in the information providing apparatus (S204). The storage device of the individual DB is a hard disk, and is stored in different areas of the hard disk for each management information, and old management information is stored sequentially without being deleted. Thereafter, the individual data is transmitted from the information providing apparatus to the information general display apparatus (S205). At the time of transmission, a transmission destination address, a transmission source address, and a subsidiary name are assigned so that the data transmitted from which information providing apparatus can be uniquely identified. The communication protocol is transmitted by TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) so that it can be normally transmitted without data loss.

  In the integrated information display apparatus of FIG. 2, individual data transmitted for each subsidiary by TCP / IP is received by the communication interface (S206) and stored in the integrated DB. First, an individual data table is stored for each subsidiary based on the source address and the subsidiary name. Here, the old individual data table is not deleted, and the individual data table is stored in different areas of the hard disk of the integrated DB without being sequentially overwritten in time series. Then, the table is classified into items by sales, profit, and FCF as needed (S207). Based on the sales key of the individual data table, the sales amount of 1 million yen and the date 9/3 are selected and stored in the item-specific data table classified by sales for each subsidiary. Similarly, the profit 100,000 yen and date 9/3 are stored in the profit item-specific data table, and the FCF 200,000 yen and date 9/3 are stored in the FCF item-specific data table. Here, when the data of the subsidiary A is received, first, the item of sales is selected based on the key of sales (S208), the sales amount selected in S208 is 1 million yen, and the update date is 9/3. The freshness calculation is started based on the data (S209). The freshness table that performs freshness calculation and has quantitatively freshness is updated this month to indicate whether the sales item has been updated in the current month. The previous month is the same as the previous month, and the current month is composed of three items that have not been updated for the current month.

  A specific freshness calculation will be described next. Based on the update date and time given in S203, it is confirmed whether the sales for the previous month in the sales-item-specific data table stored in time series in the integrated DB exist, that is, whether it is 0 yen or more (S210). ). If it does not exist, that is, if it is a NULL value, 1 is added to the current month update counter of the freshness table (S212). If sales exist, it is compared with the same value as August of the previous month, that is, whether August and September have the same sales of 1 million yen (S211). If it is not the same value as August of the previous month, 1 is added to the update counter of the current month (S212), and if it is the same value, 1 is added to the counter of the same value of the previous month (S213). At the stage of calculating the data of subsidiary A, the data of the remaining subsidiaries has not been received yet. Therefore, subtracting one received subsidiary from the prescribed number of subsidiaries specified by the management and subtracting this month's subsidiary. Several 4 companies are calculated (S214).

  Here, even if the actual number of subsidiaries is 10, if the number of subsidiaries requiring information is 5, the predetermined number of subsidiaries is 5. The number of specified subsidiaries is not limited to this. This is the end of the sales item for subsidiary A. It is determined in advance that freshness is calculated for predetermined items of sales, profit, and FCF, and it is determined whether or not the predetermined items have been completed (S215). If the predetermined item is not finished, freshness calculation is started for the profit which is the next item (S208).

  Repeat the above to calculate the freshness of sales, profits, and FCF for the predetermined items, and calculate the freshness table updated this month, the same value for the previous month, the number of companies not updated this month, and the ratio to the predetermined number of companies. Then, the freshness is displayed as a graph on the display (S216), and the calculation process is terminated (S217). Similarly, when the data of subsidiary B is input, freshness calculation is performed as needed.

  Next, the table in which the data used in the above-described flowchart is configured or registered will be described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, and 5. FIG.

  FIG. 3 shows a table of S202 to S205 in the information providing apparatus. In the data acquisition (S202), in the case of the subsidiary A, the input data table 301 to be input includes items of sales, profit, FCF and respective amounts. The update date and time is given in the update date and time assignment (S203), and this is used as the individual data table 302. In the individual data transmission (S205), transmission data 303 including the transmission destination address of the information management display device, the transmission source address of the information providing device of subsidiary A, the company name of subsidiary A, and the individual data table 302 is transmitted. At this time, encryption may be performed as necessary. The same applies to subsidiary B and subsidiary C.

  FIG. 4 shows a table of S206 to S207 in the information overall display device. In the individual data reception (S206), the same individual data table 401 as the individual data table 302 of the transmission source is received, and is classified into the item-specific data table 402 divided into items of sales, profit, and FCF whenever necessary. . For example, the sales amounts of subsidiary A, subsidiary B, and subsidiary C are integrated into a sales data table. The same applies to items for profit and FCF.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of the table of S208 to S215 and the freshness calculation in the information integrated display device. In particular, the classification according to the conditions of the current month update, the previous month same value, and the current month not updated are described with the freshness calculation transition diagram 502. . . Sales are selected in item selection (S208), and the item-specific data table 501 is an example of sales. In the freshness calculation start (S209), the calculation is first started from the sales of the subsidiary A and the date and time (1 million: 9/3, 900,000: 8/4). This month is September. Since the presence of the data for August is confirmed in the presence of previous month data (S210), the previous month same value (S211) is confirmed. Then, since the sales amount is different, 1 is added to the current month update (S212). When data of subsidiary B is input, the same determination is made and there is data for the previous month, but 1 is added to the same value for the previous month (S213) because the sales amount is the same as the previous month. In the case of subsidiary C, since the previous month's data does not exist, 1 is added to the current month update (S212). Subsidiary D and subsidiary E have not received data from the information provision device. Therefore, subtract the three subsidiaries A to C that have already been transmitted from the five subsidiaries of the prescribed number of subsidiaries, Calculated (S214). As shown in the freshness table 503, two companies were updated this month (subsidiaries A and C), the same month last month was one company (subsidiary B), and two companies were not updated this month (subsidiaries D and E). Becomes 40%, 20%, and 40%. A graph of this freshness is the freshness graph of FIG.

  In this way, by displaying quantitatively and visually how much the management information has been updated within a predetermined period, it is possible to know the reliability of the information specifically, and the management can quickly and accurately manage the company. It is possible to grasp, judge and carry out. Further, in the first embodiment, since management information is transmitted from the information providing apparatus and freshness calculation is performed as needed, when the manager refers to freshness, the calculation of freshness is completed, and the display is quickly performed. And the convenience for the user is increased.

  The management information of this embodiment is exemplified by sales, profit, and FCF of financial information. However, non-financial information such as factory operation rate and number of patents may be used. Moreover, although the relationship between the head office and a subsidiary is taken as an example, the relationship between the head office and a business unit, base, or department may be used.

  In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which sales, profits, FCF amount display, freshness calculation, and freshness display are performed in response to a request from a manager.

  The basic configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment, and the overall configuration is as shown in FIG. Management information is transmitted from the information providing apparatus 110 to the information general display apparatus 100, and data is sequentially stored in the integrated DB 103. Then, the freshness calculation means 105 calculates the freshness according to the management's display request, and the freshness display means 106 displays the freshness in a graph.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process from when the information providing apparatus 110 acquires data, transmits the data to the information overall display apparatus 100, and stores the data in the integrated DB 103.

  A data flow is started in the information providing apparatus (S801), and sales, profit, and FCF are manually input or automatically input to acquire data (S802). The date and time when the data was acquired is assigned (S803), and once stored in the individual DB 113 (S804). Then, encoding is performed by a method suitable for the network protocol, and the encoded information is transmitted to the information overall display device (S805).

  The information management display device receives the data (S806), decrypts it according to a predetermined procedure, and obtains individual data. Then, the table is classified into items by sales, profit, and FCF (S807), and stored in the integrated DB 103. The above is the data flow from the information providing device to the information general display device. This is performed, for example, for the subsidiary A. Since there are generally a plurality of subsidiaries, data for the plurality of subsidiaries is stored in the integrated DB 103. At this stage, the freshness calculation is not yet performed.

  The data table is the same as in the first embodiment. In the information providing apparatus 110, the date and time is given to the input data table 301 shown in FIG. Then, the transmission destination address, transmission source address, company name, and individual data table are transmitted as transmission data. In the information integrated display apparatus 100, the item-specific data tables 402, 412, and 422 are generated from the individual data table 401 shown in FIG. 4 and stored in the integrated DB 103.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart for performing freshness calculation when data of some subsidiaries is stored in the integrated DB 103 even if it is not for a predetermined subsidiary, and the manager requests freshness display. The sales item is selected from the item-specific data tables 402, 412, and 422 stored in the integrated DB 103 (S901). Then, freshness calculation is started based on the sales amount and the update date / time in the item-specific data table 402 (S902).

  For a certain company, it is confirmed whether or not there is sales for the current month. If there is data for the current month, check whether the sales amount is the same as the previous month. If it is not the same value as the previous month, 1 is added to the update counter for the current month. Even if there is no data in the previous month, 1 is added to the update counter for the current month. If it is the same value as the previous month, 1 is added to the counter of the same value as the previous month.

  The above is carried out for the specified number of subsidiaries, and when the specified subsidiaries are completed, the ratio of the number of subsidiaries updated this month, the same value the previous month, and the month not updated is calculated and displayed in a graph. For example, the freshness graph 700 is a pie chart shown in FIG.

  Similarly, the items of profit and FCF are also implemented, and a freshness graph 700 is displayed together with the transition shown in the management information graph 600 of FIG. Note that the freshness graph 700 may be displayed for sales, profit, and FCF, respectively, or may be displayed as a single freshness graph 700 when the update date and time are the same.

  Details of the flowchart of FIG. 9 will be described with reference to the table structure of FIG. A household that calculates freshness based on the item-specific data table 1001 and obtains the freshness table 1003 will be described.

  With September as the current month, first, it is confirmed whether there is sales for September based on the information on sales of subsidiary A (1 million: 9/3, 900,000: 8/4). Since sales for September exist, it is checked whether it is the same as the previous month. Subsidiary A adds 1 to the current month's renewal because the amount is different because it is 900,000 in August.

  Subsidiary B has sales for September, but it is 5 million, the same as the previous month, so add 1 to the same value as the previous month. Subsidiary C has sales in September but does not have sales in August, and adds 1 to the current month's update. Subsidiaries D and E add 1 to the non-updated month of the month because there are no sales in September.

  As a result, the specified subsidiaries (5 companies) were confirmed, and the freshness table was updated 2 companies this month (subsidiaries A and C), the same company last month (subsidiary B), and 2 companies not updated this month (subsidiaries D and E). Calculated as 40%, 20%, and 40%, respectively. An example of displaying the calculation result is a freshness graph 700 of FIG.

  In this way, by displaying quantitatively and visually how much the management information has been updated within a predetermined period, it is possible to know the reliability of the information specifically, and the management can quickly and accurately manage the company. It is possible to grasp, judge and carry out. Further, in the second embodiment, since the management information is stored in the information management display means, the freshness is calculated and displayed according to the management's request, so that only the predetermined items such as the sales are determined. In addition, it is possible to calculate freshness even for items with a high degree of freedom such as a cost obtained by subtracting profit from sales, which increases the convenience for the user.

  In addition, although the freshness was calculated in units of months in both the first and second embodiments, other periods (date, year, week, etc.) may be used. Further, this period may not be constant. Furthermore, it is also included in this embodiment that other things are used appropriately for the previous month, the current month, and the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information integrated display apparatus 101 DB management means 102 Reception means 103 Integrated DB
104 Information display means 105 Freshness calculation means 106 Freshness display means 110 Information providing device 111 Input means 112 Update date and time assignment means 113 Individual DB
114 Transmission means 120 Network 301 Input data table 302 Individual data table 303 Transmission data 401 Individual data table 402 Item-specific data table 501 Item-specific data table 502 Freshness calculation transition diagram 503 Freshness table 600 Management information graph 700 Freshness graph 1001 Item-specific data table 1002 Freshness calculation transition diagram 1003 Freshness table.

Claims (3)

In an information integrated display device connected to a plurality of information providing devices via a network and displaying information received from each of the plurality of information providing devices,
Means for connecting to the network and receiving the information;
For each of a plurality of items constituting the received information, means for calculating freshness indicating the novelty of the item;
Means for displaying content related to the received information according to the calculated freshness ;
Means for storing information received in the past,
The information calculating and displaying apparatus characterized in that the calculating means compares the received information with the information received in the past, and calculates the freshness according to the comparison result . In the information overall display device according to claim 1,
The storing means stores information every predetermined period,
The information integrated display device according to claim 1, wherein the calculating means calculates a freshness that is newer as the information that coincides with information of a newer period than the comparison result. In the information overall display device according to claim 2,
The means for calculating compares the received information with the information received during the present period of the period, and if the result of the comparison does not match, the information is compared with information of a period older than the present period An information integrated display device characterized in that the comparison is repeated until the comparison is matched.

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