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Innovation, Architecture, Technical Debt

To stakeholders, architecture may seem like a costly exercise that yields blueprints and little else. And yet, architecture is essential if you wish to maximise the value of your IT investments. I’ll explain a little about why this is the case.

Bridging the Insight Gap

The dual edged sword of increasing volumes and velocities of data generated and what is termed the insight gap.

Digital and Data

By focussing upon data as an asset, and architecting the storage, access and interchange of data, companies can succeed in optimising digital capability.

Agile and Architecture

The realisation of a digital strategy utilising digital pace requires great collaboration and communication in order to build well designed, highly usable products.

Big Data Architecture I

This is the first of a series of posts where I will investigate Big Data concepts at a very fundamental level.

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Big Data Architecture II

In this post, I will explain some fundamental concepts that underpin the Hadoop technology stack – a Big Data platform that is gaining wide acceptance.

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Big Data Architecture III

In this post, I will show how the framework of MapReduce processing determines the people-value side of insight endeavours

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Phillip Higgins

Phil helps companies build digital value platforms. With over 20 years experience helping corporates make best use of their information assets, Phil is a TOGAF Level II certified architect with interests and experience including Big Data and Advanced Analytics, digital enablement and integration across a broad range of domains. Passionate about the power of information to transform and grow businesses, Phil helps organisations formulate wholistic programmes of business and IT change.

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Latest Posts

AI, Technical

Interview on Data Science

Posted By philliphiggins@gmail.com

Peadar Coyle published an interview with me about data science on his blog, here it is for your reference: Interview with a data scientist

Architecture

Agile and Architecture

Posted By Phillip Higgins

Oftentimes, I receive queries about agile development and architecture.  In fact, all development has an architecture that is either explicit or implicit- you should favour explicit architecture so you know what you are getting!  Architecture can be agile- as the project progresses models are refined and

Architecture, Innovation

Digital and Data

Posted By Phillip Higgins

What do you mean by “Digital” – are you referring to digital connections to your customers, or digital process optimisation in your business or whole new digitally enabled business models?  Often each of these approaches is seen as a new system implementation and the role

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