Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin is the Senior Editor for Wikibon’s micro-analysis team. He is the author of five books and more than 300 articles on the topic of social media and digital marketing. Gillin has 23 years experience in tech journalism, including his time as founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget as well as editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and a member of the Procter & Gamble Digital Advisory Board.

Latest from Paul Gillin

LinkedIn nudges Sales Navigator closer to mainstream CRM use

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. subsidiary LinkedIn is continuing to evolve its Sales Navigator software from an extension of the social network into a full-featured sales force productivity application. The latest release bears the first fruits of an open extension program the company launched last …

Hortonworks turns cash flow-positive as customers sign bigger deals, but investors balk

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Updated: Big-data company Hortonworks Inc. continues to make steady progress in its effort to convince skeptics — at least some of them — that a pure open-source business model can work in today’s software market. The company today reported total revenue of …

WalkMe adds predictive analytics to its platform for optimizing user experience

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

WalkMe Ltd., maker of a platform for understanding and improving user experience, has added predictive analytics capabilities to its intelligent assistant technology that interprets user behavior to predict next actions and provide context-sensitive responses. The company primarily targets its technology at e-commerce scenarios …

Podium Data takes its data lake catalog to the cloud

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

With the new 3.2 release of its Data Marketplace, Podium Data Inc. is taking its first steps outside the on-premises world and bringing self-service big data to the cloud. The Data Marketplace is essentially a data catalog for use with data lakes that eliminates …

Survey finds executives are sharply divided on the impact of automation

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Will robots, artificial intelligence and other smart technology drive new highs in business productivity? Or will it steal jobs from human beings by the millions? It turns out the consensus is yes. Or at least that’s what business executives think. A new …

PC running slowly? You may be a node in a vast cryptomining network

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

That open tab in the background of the browser you’re looking at right now could be slowing your computer to a crawl. If you’re reading on a smartphone, it could even fry your device. Cryptomining is the hottest thing in cybercrime right …

Hortonworks streaming analytics platform gets better flow management and governance

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Hortonworks Inc. today brushed up its Hortonworks DataFlow streaming analytics platform with improved support for complex processes and the ability to share and publish data flows directly to production. HDF is an open-source toolset that combines governance, security and management for applications involving real-time …

Microsoft delivers another solid quarter as cloud revenue nearly doubles – again

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

The $6.3 billion quarterly loss that Microsoft Corp. announced today briefly spooked investors, who sent shares down nearly 3 percent in immediate after-hours trading, but concerns quickly eased on assurances that the loss was thanks to a onetime $13 billion charge triggered …

Customers drive $48M funding round for data transformation startup Trifacta

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

Data transformation startup Trifacta Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new financing from a group that includes several customers. The seven-year-old firm, which bills itself as a provider of tools for “data wrangling,” or wrestling messy data into usable form, …

Amid slowing growth, SAP buys Callidus to boost push into the cloud

APPS By PAUL GILLIN9 YEARS AGO

SAP SE met revenue and profit expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter but saw a continued slowdown in growth in both cloud subscriptions and overall revenue. Shortly before releasing its results this morning, the enterprise resource planning giant also announced plans to acquire …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Hortonworks turns cash flow-positive as customers sign bigger deals, but investors balk

WalkMe adds predictive analytics to its platform for optimizing user experience

Podium Data takes its data lake catalog to the cloud

Survey finds executives are sharply divided on the impact of automation

PC running slowly? You may be a node in a vast cryptomining network

Hortonworks streaming analytics platform gets better flow management and governance

Microsoft delivers another solid quarter as cloud revenue nearly doubles – again

Customers drive $48M funding round for data transformation startup Trifacta

Amid slowing growth, SAP buys Callidus to boost push into the cloud

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