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

Dassault’s modest proposal: Change the way we make everything

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

The biggest software company you’ve never heard of has set an ambitious goal: It literally wants to transform the way we design and build everything. Dassault Systèmes will probably get a hearing from its customers. The $2.3 billion Paris-based maker of 3D …

MariaDB raises $9 million and hires two key executives

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

MariaDB Corp. said it raised $9 million from investors that include Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures, hired Silicon Valley veteran Michael Howard as CEO and brought the developer of its namesake relational database on board as full-time CTO. Created by the …

Survey finds Fortune 500 CEOs still avoiding social media

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Only 39% of Fortune 500 CEOs have any social media presence at all – and that’s the good news. A new study sponsored by Domo and CEO.com has found that top executives at America’s largest firms continue to be slow to adopt …

Birst adds collaboration, limited user import features to BI platform

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Continuing its campaign to democratize business intelligence (BI), Birst Inc. is adding features that enable users to carry on conversations while using its networked BI platform and also giving them limited extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities. The company also ported its …

Bolste challenges Slack with “insanely easy” collaboration

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Even though Slack Technologies, Inc.’s namesake collaboration platform was a viral phenomenon in 2015, former business coach Leif Hartwig says Slack still isn’t enough. Having watched clients and airport travelers wrestle with the difficulties of integrating disparate technologies for videoconferencing, document sharing …

Wikibon Analyst: When it comes to private cloud, definitions matter

WIKIBON By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

It may sound like wordsmithing, but Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely thinks it’s important for CIOs to be specific when they use the term “private cloud.” Gracely headed up a Wikibon team that recently published an analysis of the private cloud market, concluding …

Zebra claims productivity boost by eliminating scanner wrist flick

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Little things add up, or at least that’s the argument Zebra Technologies Corp. is using to tout the productivity benefits of its latest innovation in the area of barcode scanners, those handheld devices that warehouse workers around the world use to zap …

John Sculley talks customer control, innovation at the edges and $150 smart phones

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

More than a decade the past the typical corporation’s mandatory retirement age, John Sculley appears busier than ever. He’s a board member or cofounder of more than 15 companies, a frequent public speaker and author of a new book, Moonshot!: Game-Changing Strategies to Build …

Users tell of the many upsides of data quality and integration

NEWS By PAUL GILLIN11 YEARS AGO

Whether through acquisitions or just modifications to legacy systems made over a period of years, mature companies inevitably run into data integration and quality problems. These issues are becoming particularly pronounced in the age of analytics, when companies need to pull data …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Dassault’s modest proposal: Change the way we make everything

MariaDB raises $9 million and hires two key executives

Birst adds collaboration, limited user import features to BI platform

Bolste challenges Slack with “insanely easy” collaboration

Wikibon Analyst: When it comes to private cloud, definitions matter

Zebra claims productivity boost by eliminating scanner wrist flick

John Sculley talks customer control, innovation at the edges and $150 smart phones

Users tell of the many upsides of data quality and integration

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