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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Certinia adds more AI features into its services-as-a-business platform

Certinia Inc., the developer of a software platform for services delivery, today announced its Summer 2023 product release with new capabilities focused on streamlined resource management and productivity enhancement for accounting teams. The company, which was previously known as FinancialForce Inc., has operated mainly as an enterprise resource planning provider running on top of the ...

Nutanix offers quick-start approach to AI development

Data center infrastructure supplier Nutanix Inc. today is jumping into the generative pre trained transformer fray with GPT-in-a-Box, which it describes as a toolkit for companies that are looking to jumpstart artificial intelligence and machine learning projects without risking their data or budget. Nutanix described the new offering as a full-stack, software-defined artificial intelligence-ready platform ...

Dialpad integrates generative AI across its call center suite

Cloud communications provider Dialpad Inc. is continuing its aggressive rollout of artificial intelligence capabilities with today’s launch of DialpadGPT, which it describes as a domain-specific large language model that’s tailored to the needs of customer service, sales, and recruiting operations. The company said the generative pretrained transformer offering is meant to address businesses’ concerns about scalability, accuracy, ...

Amplitude adds AI features to simplify business intelligence queries and data governance

Behavior-tracking software firm Amplitude Inc. is adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its products by launching a data quality adviser and generative AI capabilities that make it easier to construct queries. Ask Amplitude enables users to shortcut constructing queries by stating them in natural language. It’s meant to be a coach rather than a black box, ...

IBM to host Meta’s Llama 2 for enterprise AI development

IBM Corp. today said it will host Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama 2, a 70-billion-parameter large language model, in the watsonx.ai studio enterprise artificial intelligence development platform it announced in May. Early access is now available to select clients. Watsonx.ai, can be used to train generative AI models and other types of neural networks without having to build ...

Oracle packages its cloud applications and middleware for on-premises consumption

Oracle Corp. today introduced the latest member of its line of premises-based cloud infrastructure with the announcement of Compute Cloud@Customer, a rack-scale offering that’s compatible with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute services. Oracle said information technology organizations can use the bundled offering to develop, deploy, secure and manage applications and middleware in their data centers using ...

Informatica CEO Amit Walia says multiyear turnaround is nearly complete

In growth-obsessed high-technology markets, a 1% increase in year-over-year revenues is usually not thought of as something to cheer about, but Informatica Inc. CEO Amit Walia says he couldn’t be happier with the results the company announced last week. That’s because the 1.1% revenue increase occurred in the context of a multiyear turnaround effort that ...

Syxsense adds generative AI to its endpoint management suite

Syxsense Inc., the developer of a unified security and endpoint management suite, or USEM for short, is adding generative artificial intelligence capabilities to its product with an announcement today. Cortex Copilot enables information technology and security administrators to simplify and speed up the process of creating endpoint management and security workflows by allowing them to ...

Kyndryl wows investors with strong earnings beat

Shares of Kyndryl Holdings Inc. jumped more than 14% in initial after-hours trading today as the information technology infrastructure services provider reported fiscal first-quarter revenues and earnings that soundly beat Wall Street estimates. Revenue declined 2% from a year ago — 1% in constant currency — to $4.2 billion but beat analyst expectations of $4.09 ...

Salesforce introduces design studio for AI model development

Salesforce Inc. today announced a set of integrated tools that data scientists and engineers can use to build secure artificial intelligence applications using their own company data in the Salesforce Data Cloud. Einstein Studio uses a “bring your own model” approach that works with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s SageMaker, Google LLC’s Vertex and other popular ...