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

Adaptive Insights CEO: Why corporate performance management will disrupt financial forecasting

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The annual corporate financial plans that have long been a business staple seem almost quaint in the context of today’s breakneck business pace. The hottest new concept is corporate performance management, known as CPM, an evolution of business intelligence that gathers data from …

Tricentis hauls in huge $165M funding round to automate software testing

APPS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The software testing market isn’t generally thought of as a hotbed of venture capital investment, but Tricentis GmbH is aiming to put that image to rest with today’s announcement of a massive $165 million series B financing round led by Insight Venture Partners. …

Drones are really data vacuums. Here’s how one startup plans to clean up

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Drones may still be a bit of a novelty in the skies, but cottage industries are already springing up around expectations that their impact will be enormous. Fleets of drones are already being used in fields such as law enforcement, agriculture, real …

Report shows Office 365 pulling away from cloud application pack

APPS By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

In a further sign that Microsoft Corp. is making hay in cloud computing, its Office 365 continues to extend its lead as the No. 1 productivity suite in the cloud. That’s one finding in cloud identity management provider Okta Inc.‘s third “Businesses @ Work” …

Analysis: Why a hot market couldn’t save SimpliVity from surrendering to HPE

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced Tuesday that it’s acquiring SimpliVity Corp. for $650 million, the surprisingly low price raised questions about whether the hot market for systems that combine computing, storage and networking into one box was cooling off. After all, the …

Businesses creep slowly toward cybersecurity maturity, HPE report says

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

The quality of business cybersecurity practices has improved slightly over the last two years – but only slightly, according to the latest Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. State of Security Operations report. HPE’s in-depth assessment of 137 security operations centers in 183 companies, …

Talend joins self-service party with new release of data integration platform

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Talend Inc. is joining the parade of data integration suppliers that are courting their own users as data stewards. The winter release of the company’s Talend Data Fabric integration platform, which is being announced today, includes features that Talend calls “self-service for …

Threat researcher sees no end to ransomware’s growth

INFRA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp.’s McAfee Labs raised some eyebrows in the security community in November with its prediction that “the volume and effectiveness of ransomware attacks will go down in the second half of 2017.” The security firm based its prediction on improvements in …

Cloud, digital business are forcing an enterprise security rethink

CLOUD By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

‘Tis the season for security surveys. Two more hit the mailboxes week, both validating the dramatic impact that cloud computing and digital transformation are having on corporate security organizations and budgets. A BMC Software Inc. survey of more than 300 chief information …

Velocidi raises $12M to help marketers make smarter ad choices

BIG DATA By PAUL GILLIN10 YEARS AGO

Velocidi LLC is taking its first funding round under unusual circumstances: It doesn’t need the money to survive. Founded in 2010, the marketing analytics company has been profitable for the past year-and-a-half. It plans to use its new $12 million in series …

Paul Gillin

Latest from Paul Gillin

Adaptive Insights CEO: Why corporate performance management will disrupt financial forecasting

Tricentis hauls in huge $165M funding round to automate software testing

Drones are really data vacuums. Here’s how one startup plans to clean up

Analysis: Why a hot market couldn’t save SimpliVity from surrendering to HPE

Businesses creep slowly toward cybersecurity maturity, HPE report says

Talend joins self-service party with new release of data integration platform

Threat researcher sees no end to ransomware’s growth

Velocidi raises $12M to help marketers make smarter ad choices

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