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

With fall release, Talend jumps into data cataloging and API development

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Data integration company Talend SA is expanding its scope into data cataloging and application program interface development with the fall update to its Talend Data Fabric integration platform announced today. Both markets are growing quickly as organizations seek to get a better …

IBM rolls out cross-platform managers for AI, multiclouds and security

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Furthering its campaign to become an agnostic integrator and management provider for outside technologies, IBM Corp. has rolled out separate frameworks for managing artificial intelligence applications, multicloud instances and collections of security products. The frameworks make extensive use of Kubernetes, the wildly …

Looker gets vertical in new version of its business intelligence platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Looker Data Sciences Inc. today added industry- and function-specific templates along with a host of new goodies for analysts in version 6 of its namesake business intelligence platform. Compared with the overhaul Looker made a year ago, this round of enhancements is more modest, …

MarkLogic claims to do data lakes one better with cloud integration engine

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

MarkLogic Inc. is continuing to bulk up the data integration features it introduced last spring by combining its NoSQL database with its Data Hub and delivering the two as a service. The company claims the MarkLogic Data Hub Service is an alternative to data …

In post-hurricane cleanup efforts, there’s a new ally: drones

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

At one point during last month’s Hurricane Florence, a storm surge completely cut off the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, and its nearly 120,000 residents from the outside world. People desperate to return to their homes via Interstate 40 – the main …

Unicorn sighting: Talkdesk raises $100M for its intelligent contact center software suite

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Talkdesk Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million funding round, calling it the largest round ever raised by a private company in the contact center industry. The Series B funding, which was led by hedge fund Viking Global Investors LP with …

Eximchain claims first supply chain network based on public blockchain

EMERGING TECH By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

With $20 million in initial coin offering financing in its pocket, Eximchain Inc. today launched a blockchain-based global supply chain platform that companies of all sizes can use to validate their credibility for help in financing and finding new contracts. Hatched out …

Adaptive Insights targets workforce planning with first products since Workday buyout

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Adaptive Insights Inc. today is releasing its first new product since Workday Inc. snapped it up in June for $1.55 billion on the eve of its initial public offering. The corporate performance management software provider is making available a workforce planning module for its …

Kafka alternative Apache Pulsar gains top-level project status

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Apache Kafka is finally getting some serious competition. Apache Pulsar, a distributed messaging platform originally developed at Yahoo! Inc. and open-sourced two years ago, was designated a top-level project by the Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday. The foundation bestows that designation when …

Segment adds governance features to its data unification platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN8 YEARS AGO

Segment.io Inc. is adding a data governance layer to its data collection and integration product that helps organizations ensure that their customer data is consistent and accurate across the organization. Called Protocols, the toolset builds upon the company’s expanding platform for gathering …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

With fall release, Talend jumps into data cataloging and API development

Looker gets vertical in new version of its business intelligence platform

In post-hurricane cleanup efforts, there’s a new ally: drones

Eximchain claims first supply chain network based on public blockchain

Adaptive Insights targets workforce planning with first products since Workday buyout

Segment adds governance features to its data unification platform

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