DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD SUITABLE FOR COLLECTING DEVICE DATA

摘要

Provided is a device management apparatus that does not require re-acquiring cumulative data necessary for billing processing, and reliably executes billing processing of a corresponding month. A billing-information-management unit, based on billing-counter information having cumulative data that is received from a MFP, updates registered information in a billing-management table that includes updated data that is updated based on the cumulative data. Then, a system-control unit, when registered information is not registered in the billing-management table by a final closing date, causes the billing-information-management unit to update registered information in the billing-management table based on predicted data.