This group will consist of BI professionals, data consumers, data evangelists, Sharepoint developers, data & enterprise architects, and business stakeholders  looking to leverage corporate assets through the information lifecycle and capitalize on advancing technologies. During our meetings we will discuss the following topics: Data strategies and roadmaps ERP and data rationalization Master Data Management Data Governance Operational assessments Enterprise Data Management Design Functional & L …

ChiPMA, The Chicago Area Product Management Association, is all about helping Product managers and related fields to get better at designing, building and launching digital products and services. Modeled after the Silicon Valley Product Managers Association (SVPMA, www.svpma.org), ChiPMA's meetings expose members to current trends in innovation, product strategy, product marketing, development approaches and the latest tools and technologies. Whom it's for: Software and Digital Product managers …

The Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering cloud computing innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for fellow cloud computers and newcomers alike to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this exciting and rapidly evolving technology niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn and network in the commu …

Welcome to the Chicago JBoss User Group Meetup Page! We are a group of JBoss enthusiasts who like to meet and discuss the latest JBoss.org projects or other Java Open Source projects. All our meetings are open to the public without any restrictions. More information: http://community.jboss.org/groups/chicago-jbug

The vision: Making Milwaukee the most socially connected city on Earth. Who should join: People that already have communities and want to make them better. People that would like to start their own community and need help. People that want to find a community to join. This group is about more than just "social media." It's about using social media as a tool in a box of tools used when building AWESOME communities.

A group for those in Chicago who develop or implement enterprise search software. We'll discuss new search solutions, specific products (Autonomy, Endeca, Fast, Dieselpoint, Lucene, Solr, Google Search Appliance), ideas, and maybe a bit of "big data" technology like Hadoop as it relates to search. Folks into text analytics also welcome. Great for developers or academics who work in information retrieval.

Join fellow IT Managers, IT Professionals, Solutions Architects, Technical Decision Makers, Developers, and Architects when Neudesic, LLC. explores cloud computing. Learn from industry experts about Microsoft’s cloud services operating system, Windows Azure, and how it fits into your company's bigger picture. Take the first steps towards understanding the features, functionality and value of the Azure platform, and what it takes to develop and deploy applications to the cloud. Meetings are hoste …

This group is focused on developers and architects who have a deep desire to collectively solve challenges related to CQ5. This group was created specifically for Chicago professionals. This group’s only intention is to provide a forum where technical practitioners can exchange ideas and seek support.

community for the discussion of the convergence of design science and software development / engineering, resulting from non-linear and dynamic complexity of the software ecosystem. Construct practice frameworks, etc. Open to software researchers, architects, engineers, designers, scientists, developers, programmers, analysts, and users

There seemed to be a lot of groups dealing with .net and various web technologies but nothing dedicated to Java/J2EE. I envision this as a group for people that wish to network with other Java Enterprise professionals in the Chicago area.

This group is open to anyone who is interested in using technology to fuel social good. During these meetups we'll talk about how to use technology to bring an idea to life, and bring in Chicago nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs to help guide the discussion. We'll focus on how to build web and mobile solutions to solve real-world problems such as data management, registrations, transactions, and community building, among others.

Enterprise technology is changing the face of large organizations by bringing efficiency, increased profitably, and employee happiness. The Chicago #EntTech Meetup works to foster innovation in enterprise tech, build a community of learning, and promote the best and brightest within the space. Organized by Manifest Digital and Acceleprise

This meet up is for anyone that is impacted by Big Data in their business, professional, and personal realms. We are starting this meet up to educate and demystify everything around Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Hive, PIG, Datameer, R, etc. and help understand how these new technologies fit within traditional enterprises that have architectures around Mainframe, Windows, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Exadata etc. It is one thing to know technology and another to leverage it appropriatel …

This group is for professionals, thought leaders and researchers dedicated to Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, BI, Cloud Analytics, Cloud BI, Social Media Analytics, Sensor Data Analytics, Data Integration, Data Warehouse Appliances, Data Visualization, Data Management, etc. In short, this is a networking community focused on emerging technologies (Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), and strategies that allow enterprises to leverage their data assets so they may better …

The Chicago JavaFX User’s Group is here to help developers and others learn about JavaFX and related tools, as well as really cool applications that are built with JavaFX!  Occasionally, we will also have presentations of hardware and devices that can benefit from JavaFX technology. JavaFX is the next step in the evolution of Java as a rich client platform, shortening development time and easing deployment of data-driven business and enterprise client applications. We generally meet monthly in p …