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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.
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.
Boris holds a degree in music education from Moscow Gnessin School Of Music, Russia.
The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...
This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...

Emerging Asia Steps Up
In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...
This document identifies the infrastructure (server, client, storage, OS) profile of end user organizations in Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. The report focuses on IT...
This document provides a comprehensive background of ASEAN countries' (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) data center market dynamics from the end...
This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the India IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. The India IT market...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...
Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud
Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...