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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Informatica adds GPT support and cloud migration enticements for on-premises customers

Informatica Corp. is doubling down on its Intelligent Data Management Cloud with a series of announcements today at its Informatica World conference in Las Vegas. They include expanded artificial intelligence capabilities, vertical market features and a broader scope of master data management products. The announcements come as the company is completing what it says is ...

Tableau refreshes its visualization platform with GPT added

The Tableau Software subsidiary of Salesforce Inc. today added generative pre-trained transformer technology of the type used in the popular ChatGPT question-answering application to its core data visualization platform. The company cited its own research that found that 80% of senior information technology leaders believe generative artificial intelligence will help their organizations make better use of ...

Kinetica adds ChatGPT front-end to its high-speed analytical database

Kinetica DB Inc., the developer of a real-time analytic database for time-series and spatial workloads, today announced that it has integrated its analytic database with OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence engine to enable users to compose SQL queries using natural language. The company said users can now ask any question about their own data, ...

Enterprise DB entices Oracle users to move to Postgres

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source Postgres database management system, today is announcing a program that helps qualifying organizations easily migrate from Oracle Corp. databases to Postgres. The EDB Guaranteed Postgres Migration program is aimed at organizations and divisions of organizations in North America and Europe that are attempting their ...

SAP shares jump on positive outlook

SAP SE shares jumped in early trading today as the enterprise resource planning giant reported earnings and revenue that beat analyst expectations. The German software company adjusted its full-year guidance down to reflect the pending divestiture of its Qualtrics International Inc. subsidiary but said cloud revenue should be up between 23% and 26% at constant ...

IBM misses on sales, but strong earnings and bullish forecast drive its stock higher

IBM Corp. narrowly missed revenue expectations for the first quarter but strong earnings results and strength in its software business helped drive shares up nearly 2% in after-hours trading. The enterprise computing giant reiterated its full-year outlook of revenue growth in the 3% to 5% range while cautioning that there could be some weakness in ...

Prosimo unveils application-driven multicloud orchestration suite

Prosimo Inc., the developer of networking technology for orchestrating application delivery across multiple clouds, today introduced a suite of tools that organizations can use to securely interconnect applications and services across regions and clouds. The Cloud-Native Networking Suite aligns underlying cloud and network infrastructure with applications to simplify cloud onboarding, reduce network delivery lifecycles and ...

Salesforce to integrate generative AI with workflow automation

Salesforce Inc. is expanding its generative artificial intelligence footprint today with new capabilities for its Einstein GPT general-purpose AI assistant that allow it to work with its Flow workflow automation suite. The company is also tightening integration between its Data Cloud “lakehouse” and Flow. The integration of Einstein GPT and Flow makes it possible for users ...

Oracle boosts supply chain planning, adds support for subscription services across its financial applications

Oracle Corp. is continuing its aggressive development of new features in its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing suite with the addition of artificial intelligence-enabled lead time estimating for supply chain planning, the company announced today. Oracle is also enhancing the quote-to-cash process in several of its financial applications and adding career guidance features to ...

Sumo Logic adds predictive analytics to its observability platform

Sumo Logic Inc., developer of an analytics-based platform for application performance management and observability, today added capabilities that predict application, cloud and infrastructure usage and resource demands based on historical data. It’s also stepping up its commitment to the OpenTelemetry collection of tools, application program interfaces and software development kits that can be used to instrument, ...