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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.
Professional measurement is an integral part of fully professional AR; it is not optional. But AR managers get confused about who the measurements are for, as well as what measurements to take, how...

AR managers struggle to build value-driven AR plans, let alone to articulate any resultant business value in crisp statements that convince executives of AR's worth. But the plan and the value...

Communications (comms) AR — characterized by programs of outreach to analysts with no clearer view of value beyond this — is weak. It's bad for your company, and, if you aspire to a top...


AR's Measurement And Achievement Of Sales Contribution Is Improving
Myriad options puzzle industry analyst relations (AR) professionals as they try to measure the value they bring to high-tech vendors and to deliver consistently against related targets. A Forrester...
Assessment: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers get very little time to assess their AR programs because they're so busy executing on the next apparent priority. To help, Forrester has distilled AR best practices...
This self-assessment tool helps you review your current industry analyst relations (AR) program, analyze its weaknesses, and identify what you need to change if your program is to join the best. The...

Business Impact: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
It's understandable that AR newcomers think — or maybe just hope — that there's a one-size-fits-all AR program that they can apply to their companies. After all, they're short on money,...
Supporting Sales Is The Hardest Challenge For AR
A bewildering array of options besets industry analyst relations (AR) as it tries to identify the value it can bring to a high-tech supplier. A recent Forrester survey shows that AR reports fair...
Influence: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Most valuable AR programs rely, sometimes exclusively, on analysts enhancing the commercial fortunes of the vendors by influencing marketplace players like buyers, partners, journalists, and...

Analyst relations (AR) people are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy and begin with technology-driven...

Executive Overview: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Industry analyst relations (AR) is a profession. Done well, it delivers high business value through unique resources — industry analysts. But vendors understand its value poorly and resource it...

Analyst relations (AR) professionals are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy. They often begin with...

Analyst relations (AR) people are fretting about the opportunities and threats posed by social media, their worries fed by uncertainty about which aspects of social media will be important and how....
Strategic Plan: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers constantly ask us how to prove the value of their AR programs. Worryingly, so do some of their bosses. Unfortunately, many struggle because they didn't build plans to...

Landscape: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
The industry analyst relations (AR) tradition of supporting marketing and sales all too easily limits AR when the parent vendor faces greater business challenges elsewhere. Furthermore, whether AR is...

Vision: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
What are the attributes of a first-class AR professional running a first-class AR program? In this report, we visualize the peak of your profession by showing how different it is from commonplace AR....
