SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CHANGES TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM JOBS BASED ON MANAGEMENT COST AND JOB DEGREE OF SIMILARITY

An embodiment of this invention is a system that recommends a change of management jobs for a plurality of apparatuses separated into a plurality of groups. This system selects groups one by one from the plurality of groups. It determines a similarity degree among the management jobs set to the plurality of groups after changing the current management job to a different management job. It determines at least either one of a management cost of the current management job and a management cost of the different management job. It determines a recommendation degree of the change of the management job using the determined similarity degree and the determined management cost. It presents a pair for a recommended change of management jobs in accordance with the determined recommendation degrees.