I have set up this group with a focus on Banking & Finance because this is the area that I have worked in for the majority of my  25 years of working life.  I am interested in finding out what value my Bank can derive from solutions based around Big Data  so that I can build a business case to present to our executives to get funding.  I’ve found that keeping up with current news around Big Data  is like using twitter on speed so I have filtered my interest  for news and use cases specifically r …

The Windows Azure Sydney User Group was created to bring together everyone working with or interested in the Windows Azure platform and Cloud Computing technology. The main focus will be: Overview Compute SQL Azure Storage Business Analytics Service Bus CDN Caching Networking Identity HPC Marketplace Media Services We have meetings in Sydney CBD, Australia every other month unless we get an impromptu speaker. http://www.sydneyazure.com/ Thanks! Conor

This group is an inclusive, volunteer-driven, non-profit, vendor-neutral, unbiased and sales-pitch free community of those interesting in the IBM Information Server toolset.  We sustain the group through community interest and participation. If you profile, map, extract, transform, load, slice, secure, archive, or govern data with IBM's Information Server tools (or run a team who does), this is the official meetup group in Sydney. We're enthusiasts for Information Server, the people who use it, …

Agile development processes and techniques in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence are leading to vast cost and time saving in many DW and BI projects. Come and join our group to learn and to share your Agile DW and BI experiences.

What is Data Vault, and why should we be interested in it?? Data Vault is a new generation Data Warehouse Database Modeling Method (akin to Inmon and Kimball modeling methods) that is designed to provide historical storage of data coming in from multiple operational systems, for building large scale, industry strength, rapidly evolving DW / BI systems. Designed by Dan Linstedt, Data Vault's Hub and Satellite Architecture specifically caters for todays complex Data Management needs, focussing on …

Sydney Datapreneurs is a niche group, specifically for entrepreneurial people who build businesses/software based on data. If that's not your interest, check out these meetups: For Sydney startups, check out http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach/ and http://www.meetup.com/open-coffee-sydney/ Analysts and data mining consultants should check out http://www.meetup.com/datarati/ and http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Sydney/ For big data, check out http://www.meetup.com/SMAQDown-Sydney/ and http://sydney. …

Sydney BI Social (SYBIS) group is a new event for the Sydney business intelligence community. Organised by Iman Eftekhari and James Beresford, this event will be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month. The aim of this group is to provide an opportunity for BI professionals to network, share ideas and experiences, have a beer or two, have some fun and make some new friends. The format will be simple: topics will be suggested prior to the event and will be used to initiate discussions. We will tr …

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!