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

ServiceNow toasts earnings forecasts as pandemic actually helps its business

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

What pandemic? ServiceNow Inc. today reported revenues and profits for the second quarter that easily beat Wall Street estimates and raised its guidance for subscription revenue and billings for the full year, saying the COVID-19 crisis is actually helping the business. Subscription …

Cognizant picks up New Signature in fifth cloud-related acquisition of 2020

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Information technology consulting and technology services giant Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. said Tuesday it will acquire New Signature LLC, a company that specializes in application development and cloud migration in Microsoft Corp. Azure environments. The deal, which is Cognizant’s fifth cloud-related acquisition of the …

Image recognition startup raises $1.2 million to spot utility faults before they trigger wildfires

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Faulty utility equipment ignited more than 2,000 fires in California over a three-year period and power lines are the third most common cause of fires in the Golden State. Buzz Solutions Inc. is tackling the problem with machine learning. The three-year-old startup, …

SAP defies skeptics as cloud drives strong revenue and earnings growth

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Software giant SAP SE today beat lowered expectations on both revenue and profit in the second quarter, citing unexpectedly strong new customer activity despite customer caution during the pandemic. Revenues of $7.9 billion beat consensus estimates of $7.85 billion. Cloud revenue grew …

Linux Foundation expands into the fight against COVID-19

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

The Linux Foundation is joining the battle against COVID-19 with a program aimed at building on top of the foundational contact tracing work being done jointly by Google LLC and Apple Inc. The Linux Foundation Public Health initiative is launching with seven premier …

Retooling technology for cloud native means upgrading people, too

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

When Rice University adopted a strategy to update its application portfolio with cloud native software, it needed to update its people, too. “We needed to retrain our staff,” said Klára Jelínkova, vice president for international operations and information technology. The infrastructure teams …

IBM revenue falls but not as much as worried investors feared

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp.’s earnings declined in the second quarter but beat analysts’ estimates in most critical areas and executives expressed confidence that the company is well-positioned to gain market share when the economy recovers. Adjusted profit fell to $2.18 a share from $3.17 …

As cloud native computing rises, it’s transforming culture as much as code

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Rice University is in the process of shifting from a legacy on-premises enterprise resource planning application to one built entirely in the cloud. Along the way, the university is also shedding about 20 related special-purpose applications it has accumulated over the years. …

Oracle cloud apps get machine learning, digital assistant upgrades

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. today updated its cloud-based enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management and supply chain management software with features it says will be particularly useful to businesses seeking to manage more effectively during the uncertainty of a global pandemic. With a focus …

Oracle brings flagship Autonomous Database to on-premises Cloud@Customer deployments

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN6 YEARS AGO

Oracle Corp. is taking an important step toward its goal of becoming a top-tier cloud infrastructure provider today with the announcement that its flagship Autonomous Database will now be available for customers to use within their own data centers through the Exadata …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

ServiceNow toasts earnings forecasts as pandemic actually helps its business

Cognizant picks up New Signature in fifth cloud-related acquisition of 2020

Image recognition startup raises $1.2 million to spot utility faults before they trigger wildfires

SAP defies skeptics as cloud drives strong revenue and earnings growth

Linux Foundation expands into the fight against COVID-19

IBM revenue falls but not as much as worried investors feared

Oracle cloud apps get machine learning, digital assistant upgrades

Oracle brings flagship Autonomous Database to on-premises Cloud@Customer deployments

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