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Boris Evelson

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Boris serves the Application Development & Delivery role. He is a leading expert in business intelligence (BI) — a set of processes, methodologies, and technologies used to transform raw data into meaningful, useful, and action-oriented enterprise information. Boris delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define BI strategies, governance, and architectures and identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences.

Boris' current research focuses on the practical and actionable best practices for building BI infrastructure and applications, such as BI business cases, architectural options, organizational structures, and vendor selection. Boris continues to explore emerging trends in next-generation BI, such as agile BI architecture and development approaches, in-memory analytics, advanced data visualization, convergence of structured data and unstructured content analytics, process-driven and operational BI, and many others.

Previous Work Experience

Boris has more than 30 years of experience with enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory skills. Most recently, Boris was a managing partner at Textra, a boutique strategic advisory firm serving all IT constituents: users, vendors, and investors. Boris cofounded Textra after spending several years as a VP and a strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, where he led many successful internal BI initiatives, advising the bank's large enterprise software clients on enterprise adoption issues and product and marketing strategies. Prior to JPMorgan, Boris served as a senior manager of data warehousing and customer relationship management (CRM) practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Boris started his career at Citibank, where, among many other successful projects, he implemented the bank's first global credit risk data warehouse.


Education

Boris holds a degree in music education from Moscow Gnessin School Of Music, Russia.

Research Coverage:

Analytics Applications, Business Intelligence, CRM Applications, Center of Expertise, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Architecture Domains, Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Process, Enterprise Collaboration, IT Organization, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Packaged Applications

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    Report:Topic Overview: Business Intelligence

    Boris EvelsonNovember 21, 2008

    Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008

    Boris EvelsonJuly 31, 2008

    In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle...

    • Downloads: 4754

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

    IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, and Oracle Lead, With Information Builders, SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy Close Behind

    Boris EvelsonOctober 20, 2010

    In Forrester's 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders , SAS, Microsoft, and...

    • Downloads: 4265

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:How The Convergence Of Business Rules, BPM, And BI Will Drive Business Optimization

    Boris Evelson, Colin Teubner, John R. RymerMay 14, 2008

    With change endemic, business flexibility paramount, and the lines between strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making blurring, information and knowledge management (I&KM) pros must find...

    • Downloads: 2271

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Trends 2011 And Beyond: Business Intelligence

    Agility Will Shape Business Intelligence For The Next Decade

    Boris EvelsonMarch 31, 2011

    Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...

    • Downloads: 2392

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010

    Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind

    Jeffrey S. Hammond, Boris EvelsonAugust 10, 2010

    Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...

    • Downloads: 2110

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Quantify The Tangible Business Value Of BI

    Business Case: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris Evelson, Martha BennettMay 14, 2013

    As the demand for pervasive and comprehensive business intelligence (BI) applications increases, so do the complexity and cost of large enterprise BI implementations. Organizations must demonstrate...

    • Downloads: 2050

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:BI In The Cloud? Yes, And On The Ground, Too

    Why, When, And How To Select A BI SaaS Vendor

    Boris EvelsonJanuary 26, 2010

    Slowly but surely, with lots of criticism and skepticism, the business intelligence (BI) software-as-a-service (SaaS) market is gaining ground. It's a road full of peril — at least two BI SaaS...

    • Downloads: 2010

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:BI Belt Tightening In A Tough Economic Climate

    Practical Advice Applicable To Any Economic Condition

    Boris EvelsonFebruary 20, 2009

    As an economic downturn becomes a sobering reality, enterprises look for various ways to increase revenues and reduce costs. While overall IT budgets become targets for cost cutting, business...

    • Downloads: 1547

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Business Intelligence (BI) Polishes Its Crystal Ball

    IBM's SPSS Deal Nudges Analytics Industry Toward Deeper Predictive Focus

    James Kobielus G., Boris Evelson, Leslie OwensAugust 18, 2009

    Enterprise strategic, tactical, and operational decision-makers want to understand past and present activity but also anticipate the future to avoid being blindsided by seemingly hidden events. How...

    • Downloads: 1530

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Agile BI Out Of The Box

    Reduce Development Time And Effort With Metadata-Generated BI Applications

    Boris EvelsonApril 22, 2010

    Complexity represents one of the toughest challenges facing traditional business intelligence (BI) applications. Multiple components must be considered including data integration, cleansing,...

    • Downloads: 1657

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:A Practical How-To Approach To Mobile BI

    Mobile Tablet PCs, Not Phones, Will Create Critical Mass For Enterprise Adoption

    Boris EvelsonMarch 03, 2011

    Mobile devices and mobile Internet are everywhere. Over the past few years, Forrester has tracked continuously increasing levels of adoption and maturity for mobile business applications, but not so...

    • Downloads: 1783

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

    Complement Your RDBMS-Based BI With More Agile DBMS Technologies

    Boris EvelsonMay 27, 2011

    We know how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and flexibility challenges now represent BI's...

    • Downloads: 1371

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Empower BI HEROes With Self-Service Tools

    An Empowered Report

    Boris EvelsonOctober 26, 2010

    In Forrester's recently published book, Empowered, Forrester Research analysts describe ways that new technologies can empower business people and make them true HEROes through individual...

    • Downloads: 1237

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes

    HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning

    Claire Schooley, Boris EvelsonNovember 07, 2011

    Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...

    • Downloads: 894

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Latest BI Adoption Trends In Enterprises: Bright Future, But Off To A Slow Start

    Boris EvelsonJanuary 12, 2009

    Our latest data shows that enterprises are slowly but surely beginning to adopt the newest BI features like open source, end-user self-service, and search-BI convergence.

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:From BPM To Business Optimization

      BI Vendors Fiddle While TIBCO Burnishes Its BPM Offering With Spotfire

      Boris Evelson, Colin TeubnerSeptember 19, 2007

      Most visionary business process management (BPM) vendors — like Appian, Global 360, Lombardi Software, Savvion, and TIBCO — now find that they've been defining their own market too...

      • Downloads: 597

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Updated 2012: BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool

      Boris Evelson, Liz HerbertJanuary 10, 2012

      Create a shortlist using our tool to find the right set of providers based on your technology requirements, industry, project size, and geographic scope.Eliminate or add partners based on factors...

      • Downloads: 136

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Six Steps To Negotiating A Better BI Deal

      Use Forrester's Approach To Help You Get More For Your Money

      Boris EvelsonNovember 14, 2011

      Many business intelligence (BI) vendors do not publish list prices. Some do not even provide list prices under NDA to their customers and prospects. Plus, BI pricing and licensing models differ...

      • Downloads: 660

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Decide When To Buy, Build, Or Outsource BI

      Tools And Technology: The Business Intelligence Playbook

      Boris Evelson, Anjali YakkundiAugust 23, 2012

      Building custom business intelligence (BI) solutions is time-consuming and inflexible; therefore, application development and delivery (AD&D) pros heading BI projects should move away from a...

      • Downloads: 620

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Hyperion Acquisition Boosts Oracle's Position In Business Performance And BI

      Boris Evelson, Paul D. HamermanMarch 19, 2007

      With the announcement of the Hyperion acquisition, Oracle did, again, what it does best — made a bold play to absorb a key competitor's technology and customer base. While this acquisition...

      • Downloads: 251
     
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