System and method for managing capacity of professional and technical services
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsErik Ramsten Bush, George Anthony Fioto JR., John Arthur Ricketts
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Abstract
A system and method for managing capacity of professional and technical services is presented. This invention creates a simulated environment and information system in which users make decisions corresponding to resource management. The user may input actual resource supply and actual resource demand, or the user may generate a resource supply and resource demand pattern based upon a pattern number. The user may enter a resource plan or may have a resource plan automatically generated. The simulation outputs a resource usage report file that allows the user to analyze a variety of capacity management situations.
Claims27
A method of managing resources, said method comprising:
- receiving one or more buffer variables and one or more endogenous variables;
- determining one or more exogenous variables;
- and
- simulating one or more resource requirements using the buffer variables, the endogenous variables, and the exogenous variables.
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory accessible by the processors;
- one or more nonvolatile storage devices accessible by the processors;
- a resource management tool, the resource management tool including:
- means for receiving one or more buffer variables and one or more endogenous variables;
- means for determining one or more exogenous variables;
- and
- means for simulating one or more resource requirements using the buffer variables, the endogenous variables, and the exogenous variables.
A computer program product stored in a computer operable media for managing resources, said computer program product comprising:
- means for receiving one or more buffer variables and one or more endogenous variables;
- means for determining one or more exogenous variables;
- and
- means for simulating one or more resource requirements using the buffer variables, the endogenous variables, and the exogenous variables.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.