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 beats sales forecasts as Salesforce acquisition nears

Enterprise data management company Informatica Inc. reported a strong third quarter for 2025, with cloud subscription revenue rising 31% over the same period last year and overall revenue slightly surpassing analyst expectations. The company also detailed ongoing efforts to expand its artificial intelligence offerings and said its pending acquisition by Salesforce Inc. is on track. ...

Exclusive: Lemony says its dynamic prompt routing tool cuts AI costs by up to 85%

Lemony.ai, the operating name of Uptime Industries Inc., today is releasing an open-source tool that it says can cut artificial intelligence application development costs by dynamically routing prompts to the most cost-effective language model available. Cascadeflow aims to help developers reduce application programming interface spending without compromising quality or performance. Most developers hardcode large language models ...

Kyndryl revenue declines but profits beat expectations as shift to higher-margin services continues

Kyndryl Holdings Inc. reported a small revenue decline but a higher profit for its fiscal second quarter. The information technology services company said revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 fell 1% year-over-year to $3.7 billion, below analyst expectations of $3.84 billion. Measured in constant currency, revenue declined 3.7%. The company said the decrease reflected ...

AI analytical agent caps a wave of new and enhanced Snowflake products

Snowflake Inc. today announced the general availability of Snowflake Intelligence, the centerpiece of the company’s latest wave of artificial intelligence-driven products aimed at allowing employees across skill levels to derive insights from enterprise data. Announced in June at Snowflake Summit 2025, Snowflake Intelligence enables users to ask complex business questions in natural language, leveraging both ...

RapidFire AI applies parallelization to speeding RAG workflows

Startup RapidFire AI Inc. today released an open-source software package aimed at simplifying the development of the pipelines that are increasingly central to enterprise artificial intelligence applications. The package, RapidFire AI RAG, extends the company’s “hyperparallel experimentation framework” to allow developers to simultaneously test and evaluate different configurations of chunking, which divides large documents into ...

Databricks expands tools for governing and evaluating AI agents

Databricks Inc. today announced a series of updates to its flagship artificial intelligence product, Agent Bricks, aimed at improving governance, accuracy and model flexibility for enterprise AI agents. The announcements, part of its “Week of AI Agents,” include new features in the MLflow open-source platform for managing the machine learning lifecycle, a marketplace for Model ...

Apptio expands its FinOps tools for cloud cost control

Apptio, the technology cost management firm that IBM Corp. acquired in 2023, today is launching expanded and enhanced software products aimed at helping companies gain greater control over cloud spending amid accelerating investments in artificial intelligence workloads. The release includes Cloudability Governance, a cost compliance tool integrated with the Terraform infrastructure-as-code manager, as well as ...

Cisco launches devices and software aimed at bringing AI to the edge

Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of new products and platform updates designed to bring artificial intelligence to the network edge and modernize how enterprises deploy and secure distributed workloads. The announcements, made at Cisco’s annual Partner Summit, include the debut of the Cisco Unified Edge platform, enhancements to its secure enterprise network ...

Exclusive: Rilevera raises $3M to automate cyberthreat detection engineering

Rilevera Inc., a startup focused on automating cyberthreat detection rule management, today said it has raised $3 million in seed funding to tackle detection engineering, an under-appreciated cybersecurity task that the founders say is badly broken. The company has built a centralized platform that enables security teams to create, test, deploy and monitor detection rules ...
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Thomson Reuters’ playbook is AI everywhere

Thomson Reuters Corp. reported last June that organizations with a visible artificial intelligence strategy are twice as likely to see revenue growth and 3.5 times more likely to experience critical AI benefits than those without one. By its own account, the global content and technology company is practicing what it preaches. Thomson Reuters employs 26,000 ...