The Pittsburgh Business Intelligence Group is the only regional group focused on providing opportunities for individuals in the Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing industry to meet, network, and learn about strategies, best practices, and tools. This group is technology agnostic. It is open to professionals having experience with any relevant technologies (Business Objects, Microsoft, Cognos, Birst, QlikView, SAS, SPSS, MicroStrategy, Teradata, etc.) Topics of discussion include BI tools, …

This group covers non-relational data storage technologies, which may either be a complement to or used instead of RDBMSs. Topics covered include Document Stores, Key-Value Stores, Graph Databases, Object Databases, and RDF Databases. Products covered include CouchDB, BigTable, memcached, Objectivity/DB, Hbase, Cassandra, redis, and InfiniteGraph. The general approach to our meetings are to go round-robin on the specific products and technologies in a hands-on manner, rather than talk about the …

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …