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.

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EY targets auto makers with reliability analytics service

Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) has introduced a new service for manufacturers that leverages large volumes of both structured and unstructured data for use in predicting equipment reliability. Built on SAP SE’s HANA database, SAP HANA Vora software, SAP– Predictive Analytics and Hortonworks Inc.’s Data Platform (HDP), the EY Predictive Reliability Analytics service provides a ...

Tibco boosts analytics features, adds graph database

Real-time messaging and data integration company Tibco Software Inc. announced a broad range of enhancements to its analytics offerings, including new data manipulation features in Tibco Spotfire, new code-free operational intelligence dashboards in Tibco LiveView Web, a new user-inspired developer community and component exchange, and a new acceleration package for Apache Spark and the Internet of things ...

Birst buffs up embedded analytics platform

Enterprise business intelligence vendor Birst, Inc. has enhanced its embedded analytics capabilities with new data integration, visualization and security features. New JavaScript APIs now enable third-party applications to interact with Birst using bi-directional data filters. That means applications can dynamically update based upon events and data signals that happen in Birst. Birst can also recognize filters ...

Battle cybercrime by treating it as a business, HPE report asserts

“The business of hacking is a business just like ours,” write security researchers from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) in a new report. “If we think of it like a business, like a competitor, then we can prioritize the most effective efforts to disrupt it.” HPE’s “Business of Hacking” report, which was released today, goes ...

What to watch for in Cisco earnings

Can Cisco Systems Inc. continue to successfully dodge the bullet? The company is scheduled to announce fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday at 4:30 PM EDT, and investors have been bidding the stock up modestly in advance of the release. Consensus estimates call for Cisco to report earnings of 55 cents a share, up a penny ...

6 steps to successful employee advocacy programs

Employee advocacy may be all the rage, but many companies are unprepared to unleash their people as ambassadors for their brands. Among the reasons: Organizations lack a coherent and inclusive strategy, they don’t have an engaging story to tell and don’t show that they value their employees. Asking disenfranchised people to advocate for an organization they ...

10 useful social selling tools you’ve (mostly) never heard of

    The first generation of social media monitoring and research tools mostly aggregated streams of content that quickly became noise. The new generation is using machine learning and big data analytics to mine actionable insights from what people are saying. Gabe Villamizar (@gabevillamizar, above), director of social selling at HireVue Inc., presented a list of ...

Newly independent Quickbase enhances synch and workflow

QuickBase Inc., a former Intuit Inc. subsidiary that was acquired from the consumer financial applications company by a private equity firm last month, is adding new application and data integration features that improve connections with other apps and enhance business tasks and processes. QuickBase is targeted at what the company calls “citizen developers,” which are ...

Adaptive Insights buffs up integration, display features in performance management suite

Well-funded corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has improved data integration and visualization features in the latest release of its cloud-based Adaptive Suite, while giving corporate financial professionals more features to perform “what-if” analysis from within their familiar desktop tools. Adaptive Insights is one of the hottest new vendors in the performance management ...

MarkLogic powers up security, integration features in version 9

MarkLogic Corp. is previewing version 9 of its namesake NoSQL database at its MarkLogic World conference in San Francisco this week, touting new data integration, security and manageability capabilities. MarkLogic targets enterprises with government-grade security and high availability features. Entity services in version 9 attacks a weakness of relational databases by giving developers a semantic ...