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.

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    Report:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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    Report:Global Mobile Behaviors, 2012

    Global Consumer Technographics®

    In 2012, the majority of consumers in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America owned a mobile phone. However, the ways in which global consumers use their phone varies across countries....

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    Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 '13

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    Charts & Figures:Demographics And Attitudes

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

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    Report:Forrester Research World Smartphone Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Global installed base and subscribers for smartphones in 54 countries. Also includes global and regional data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only). Breaks out age and income...

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    Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2011: Merchandising, Headcount, And Global Strategies

    Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

    This is the second of two reports that detail the findings from "The State Of Retailing Online, 2011," a Shop.org research survey conducted by Forrester Research. Specific topics covered in this...

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    Report:European Online Retail: Five Trends To Watch In 2013

    European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality

    European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...

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    Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

    Landscape: The CRM Playbook

    Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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    Report:Trends 2013: US Retail eBusiness

    As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

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    Report:Market Overview: Subscription And Recurring Billing Solutions 2012

    Few industries are immune from the digitization of experiences, content, services, and products. In this era of cloud computing and consumer mobile devices, today's digital products have evolved from...

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013

    Analysis Of 13 Global Leaders' Capabilities And How They Stack Up

    Enterprise mobility is booming; organizations must connect with employees, customers, and partners in new ways and across new devices and applications. But many organizations don't know how to move...

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    Report:A Holistic Measurement System Enables Continuous Improvement

    Performance Management: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    The seminal idea behind lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) was the need to calibrate marketing's activities (and budget) to the result of revenue generation. But effective performance management of...

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    Report:Paving The Way To Partner Loyalty Maturity

    Road Map: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook

    In this report, we present a compendious road map to guide you through the steps to build a partner loyalty program or to revamp an existing one. Follow this road map — and the companion...

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    Tool:An Interactive Tool For Evaluating Your Swag

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    Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

    Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers

    Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...

    • Downloads: 394
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    Report:The Marketing Case For A Branded Sales Channel

    Marketers Must Look Beyond Incremental Sales And Margins To Assess The Full Impact Of A Direct Sales Channel

    Every product category has a set of competitors that have a branded route to the customer — such as The Body Shop in cosmetics, Gap in apparel, and Apple in consumer electronics — while...

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    Report:I&O Leaders: Engage Employees For Successful Tablet And Mobile App Adoption In 2013

    Forrester data continues to show employee demand for business ready smartphones, tablets, and mobile applications. This presentation walks you through our data and provides insight into how your...

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    Report:Building A World-Class B2B eCommerce Business

    Executive Overview: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

    Although some eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are very mature in their understanding and execution of business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, most organizations are still in the early...

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    Report:Building A World-Class Mobile Banking Strategy

    Executive Overview: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    Mobile banking is the most important strategic change in retail banking in more than a decade. Yet too many banks have taken a haphazard approach to mobile strategy, rolling out apps and features...

    • Downloads: 424
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Five Ways To Mobilize Your Loyalty Program In 2013

    Mobile Channels Offer Rich Opportunities For Rewards And Engagement

    Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide better...

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    Report:Three Disruptive Payment Trends In 2013

    Greater Customer Value And Shifting Economics Will Shape The Future Of Payments In The US

    As we charge forward into 2013, the consumer payments industry will experience heightened competition and new challenges to the status quo. There are many forces reshaping the world of payments. This...

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    Report:Assess The Impact Of Touchpoints Along The Consumer Path-To-Purchase

    How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending

    Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

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    Report:Defining New Metrics For The Agile Business

    Benchmarks: The eBusiness Digital Transformation Playbook

    Agile commerce has broken traditional metrics. Key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the success of a single touchpoint fail to inform eBusiness executives of the impact of consumer...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Forrsights: Winning Software Strategies

    Unveiling The Software Strategies Of Top-Performing Companies

    During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 2,438 software decision-makers across Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US to determine their spending priorities around software. To...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Using ACTIVE Strategies To Optimize Execution

    Continuous Improvement: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

    B2B eCommerce organizations too often fixate on the vision and objectives associated with a plan to the exclusion of thinking through the critical details of the execution. In fact, most B2B...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Mobile App Discovery: Best Practices To Promote Your App

    Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there's a great risk that your app...

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