Patent ID: 8218185

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for performing, in a system including an image forming apparatus, a simulation of a case where the image forming apparatus is replaced by another image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store a specified processing speed, which is a job processing speed specified in a product specification, for each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a job log of the image forming apparatus included in the system; a calculation unit configured to calculate an actual job processing speed of the image forming apparatus included in the system based on the job log acquired by the acquisition unit; a ratio calculation unit configured to calculate a ratio between the specified processing speed stored in the storage unit and the actual job processing speed calculated by the calculation unit, of the image forming apparatus included in the system; a correction unit configured to acquire a specified processing speed of the another image forming apparatus usable for replacement in the simulation from the storage unit and to correct the acquired specified processing speed using the ratio calculated by the ratio calculation unit; a processing unit configured to perform a simulation in which a job based on the job log acquired by the acquisition unit is processed at the specified processing speed of the another image forming apparatus corrected by the correction unit; a log storage unit configured to store a result of the simulation performed by the processing unit as a job log; and an output unit configured to output an analysis result of analyzing the job log acquired by the acquisition unit and an analysis result of analyzing the job log stored by the log storage unit.