To control allocation of jobs after securing security to the job requiring the security.
In an MIS server 201, the job is set as a schedule target to a clean device when it is decided that security setting is present in the job, the job is set as the schedule target to one of the clean device and a non-clean device such that job amounts of the job allocated to the clean device and the non-clean device are balanced on the basis of a delivery time when it is decided that the security setting is absent, and the job having no security setting is set as the schedule target of the non-clean device when the job amount of the job having no security setting that is the schedule target to the clean device is the job amount or above of the job having the security setting.
Kazuo Abe