Technology-enabled finance transformation

Free IMA CMA Part 1 (Financial Planning, Performance, and Analytics) lesson in Technology and Analytics. 13 min read, ~1,921 words.

SDLC has five phases: systems analysis, conceptual design, physical design, implementation and conversion, operations and maintenance. RPA automates rules-based, high-volume, structured-data tasks; benefits are speed, accuracy, lower cost, audit trail, and 24/7 throughput. Cloud computing trades capex for opex and shifts capacity management to the provider; SaaS is the highest-abstraction...

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