Patent ID: 8407430

Claim:
An information processing method comprising: obtaining first data concerning a transaction amount presumed as being processed in a system to be analyzed for a plurality of business items; calculating a first load amount from said first data concerning said transaction amount; obtaining a Central Processing Unit (CPU) usage rate of said system to be analyzed, for each predetermined period; identifying a load value corresponding to a system configuration of said system to be analyzed, from predefined associations between system configurations and load values; calculating a second load amount by multiplying the identified load value by a ratio of a CPU usage rate at a peak among the obtained CPU usage rates, for a reference CPU usage rate; determining whether or not a difference between said first load amount and said second load amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount; once said difference between said first and second load amounts is equal to or greater than said predetermined amount in said judging, prompting a user to modify said first data concerning said transaction amount, and accepting data modified by said user; and executing said calculating said first load amount and said judging by using said accepted data.