Account Resource Pooling for IT Cost Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprises face high costs due to low utilization ratios of IT system accounts, as users often utilize these accounts infrequently, leading to increased expenses in informatization management.
Innovation Solution
A method for sharing account resources involves acquiring accounts with low use frequencies or durations, saving user information, and adding them to an allocatable account library, allowing for efficient reallocation to requesting users while maintaining user information for future reference.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If enterprises allocate more IT accounts to ensure system access for all users, then user access availability is improved, but account cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements account pooling where a single account can be shared by multiple users through time-multiplexed allocation. The account management system enables one account to serve multiple users sequentially, transforming the traditional one-account-one-user model into a multi-functional resource that can be dynamically allocated based on demand, thereby reducing the total number of accounts needed while maintaining access availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically allocates accounts from the pool to users based on real-time requests and usage patterns. Accounts are not statically assigned but dynamically provisioned when needed and reclaimed when not in use, allowing the system to adapt account availability to actual demand fluctuations, thus maintaining reliability while optimizing resource utilization and reducing costs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises increase the number of IT accounts to meet user demands, then user service coverage is improved, but account utilization ratio decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple low-utilization accounts into a unified account pool, consolidating scattered account resources. By combining these individually underutilized accounts into a shared pool, the system achieves better overall utilization while maintaining the ability to serve multiple users, thus improving both service coverage and utilization ratio simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements account recycling by reclaiming accounts from users who have finished using them and returning them to the pool for reallocation. This continuous cycle of discarding (releasing) and recovering (reallocating) accounts ensures that service coverage is maintained while preventing account idle time, thereby improving utilization ratio without sacrificing adaptability.
3Quantity of substance
If enterprises reduce the number of IT accounts to lower costs, then account cost decreases, but account utilization ratio increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of account access rights through the pooling mechanism. Instead of providing physical duplicate accounts to multiple users, the system creates virtual access copies that allow multiple users to sequentially utilize the same physical account resources, reducing the number of actual accounts needed while maintaining the appearance of multiple accessible accounts, thus lowering costs while improving utilization.
4Productivity
If enterprises implement account pooling and sharing mechanisms, then account utilization ratio is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an account management system as an intermediary layer between users and account resources. This mediator handles all the complexity of account allocation, tracking, and recycling automatically, shielding users from the underlying system complexity. The intermediary automates account provisioning and reclamation processes, improving utilization ratio while preventing the complexity from propagating to the user level.
Solution Approach 2:
The account management system implements self-service automation where accounts are automatically allocated to users who request them and automatically reclaimed from users who finish using them. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for manual account management intervention, handling the complexity internally while presenting a simple interface to users, thus improving utilization without burdening the system with manual operational complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method, a system, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium for sharing account resources. The method for sharing account resources comprises: acquiring an account of an original user satisfying a preset recycling condition; saving user information of the original user to a resource library, and adding the account of the original user to an allocatable account library; receiving a request for allocating an account from a requesting user, and allocating an account for the requesting user from the allocatable account library.