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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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  • Liz Herbert

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    Tool:SaaS Capabilities Assessment: Sourcing Maturity

    Liz HerbertJanuary 22, 2013

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    Report:Inquiry Spotlight: SaaS, H1 2010

    Clients Are Asking More Sophisticated Questions On SaaS

    Liz HerbertOctober 8, 2010

    Software-as-a-service (SaaS) buyers are no longer asking just: "What is SaaS?" "Who offers SaaS?" and "Is SaaS secure?" Inquiries to Forrester in the first half of 2010 show that SaaS buyers are now...

    • Downloads: 574

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    Client Inquiry:What Should Be Considered When Putting Together A SaaS Contract?

    Liz HerbertJanuary 23, 2012

    What should be considered when putting together a contract for a partnership with a SaaS supplier?

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      Tool:SaaS Capabilities Assessment: What It Means

      Liz HerbertJanuary 22, 2013

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      Client Inquiry:Standards For Uptime Agreements

      Liz HerbertAugust 5, 2011

      What are the standards for uptime agreements, particularly in on-demand or SaaS-type agreements?

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        Report:Inquiry Spotlight: SaaS Pricing And Contracting, Q3 2011

        Forrester Sees Spike In Inquiries On Pricing, SLAs, And Vendor Viability

        Liz HerbertSeptember 13, 2011

        Software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracting has become more important to organizations; firms are now scrutinizing deals before signing. Why the extra attention? SaaS agreements matter more than ever...

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        Client Inquiry:Typical Consulting Rates For IT And Business Change Consultancy Services

        Liz HerbertJuly 2, 2010

        What are the typical rates for IT and business change consultancy services currently negotiated with key partners (consultancy firms)?

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          Client Inquiry:Rates For SAP Resources

          Liz HerbertSeptember 8, 2011

          What are the rates for SAP resources?

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            Report:The Forrester Wave™: Salesforce.com Implementation, Q2 2011

            In A Rapidly Changing Market, Forrester Sees Increasing Vendor Differentiation

            Liz HerbertMay 13, 2011

            To help clients with complex, enterprisewide salesforce.com initiatives, Forrester recently evaluated the offerings of 11 leading service providers. In this 46-criteria evaluation of salesforce.com...

            • Downloads: 1565

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            Report:Insights Into Real-World SAP Projects

            Findings From Our Recent Study Of 186 SAP Clients Using Third-Party SIs

            Liz HerbertJanuary 14, 2011

            Forrester surveyed 186 SAP services client references and found that overall satisfaction and perception of pricing transparency rated high — but numerous gaps exist. Key areas that sourcing...

            • Downloads: 591

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            Client Inquiry:What Are The SLAs Around Tenure Of Resources And Skill Set/Named Resources?

            Liz HerbertFebruary 10, 2012

            Can Forrester provide some guidance and/or language to address both the turnover ratio during the duration of the project and skill set levels?

            • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

              Report:Services Contract Review Checklist

              Liz Herbert, William MartorelliMarch 22, 2013

              This contract review checklist is designed to be used by clients who are entering into new contracts or refining existing contracts. It covers 10 major categories of contract terms and provides...

              • Downloads: 26
              • Comments: 1

            • For CIO Professionals

              Report:Which Software Markets Will SaaS Disrupt?

              Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Products And Business Models Will Have Selective Impact

              Andrew Bartels, Liz HerbertJanuary 12, 2011

              Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is an important new set of capabilities and engagement models in the IT industry, particularly in the emerging world of cloud computing. We project that SaaS offerings...

              • Downloads: 2060

            • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

              Report:SaaS Vendor Management Tools Gain Relevance

              New Solutions Help Sourcing Professionals Understand The Full Value Of SaaS

              Liz HerbertOctober 19, 2011

              With software-as-a-service (SaaS) spend on the rise and firms expanding SaaS usage across broader populations of users, many Forrester clients say they are centralizing procurement and vendor...

              • Downloads: 417

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              Report:Navigate The SaaS Implementation Partner Landscape

              SI Overview For Salesforce.com, Workday, Google, And Other SaaS Integration Options

              Liz HerbertAugust 24, 2012

              Organizations use software-as-a-service (SaaS) across more and more areas of their enterprise applications landscape — from customer relationship management (CRM) to human capital management...

              • Downloads: 602

            • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

              Client Inquiry:Emerging SaaS Trends

              Liz HerbertSeptember 9, 2010

              Are there any studies that compare the trends of software-as-a-service (SaaS) versus traditional perpetual software licensing and/or the right to use licenses?

              • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                Report:Selecting A Services Provider For Your Oracle Fusion Applications Project

                Liz HerbertJune 8, 2012

                Oracle's long-awaited Fusion Applications are still very much in their infancy, which means that buyers have many questions about how they can take advantage of this emerging Oracle product line and...

                • Downloads: 257

              • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                Report:Sourcing Digital Disruption

                Liz HerbertMay 8, 2013

                Executives at leading-edge organizations drive growth, innovate, and disrupt industries with emerging technologies such as social, mobile, cloud, analytics, sensors, GIS, and others. Eighty-five...

                • Downloads: 144
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                Report:Best Practices: SaaS Systems Integration

                Findings From 42 Firms That Leveraged Third-Party Help In SaaS

                Liz HerbertNovember 22, 2010

                Forrester recently surveyed 42 clients that are using third-party systems integration support for rollout of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions such as salesforce.com, Workday, and Google Apps....

                • Downloads: 799

              • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                Blog:The Rise Of Cloud Sourcing

                Liz HerbertSeptember 19, 2010

                Enterprises are increasingly turning toward cloud deployment models (including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.), attracted by promises of fast deployment, lower upfront costs, and greater elasticity in...

                • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

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

                  Liz HerbertFebruary 15, 2013

                • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                  Blog:Clients Demand Business Innovation From Services Partners

                  Liz HerbertMay 13, 2012

                  Innovation is again the hot topic for clients, as it was before the economic downturn. Clients have a renewed interest in innovation and business growth, and they seek services partners who can help....

                  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                    Report:Key Considerations For Selecting An Oracle Services Provider

                    Insights From The 2010 Oracle SI Client Reference Survey

                    Liz HerbertMarch 17, 2011

                    Forrester surveyed 108 Oracle implementation client references at the end of 2010 and found that overall client satisfaction is high; satisfaction was higher than in our previous study conducted in...

                    • Downloads: 462

                  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                    Blog:Clients Say Big Data Is Now An Imperative (Not Just An Initiative) At IBM's Smarter Analytics Event

                    Liz HerbertMarch 22, 2012

                    At IBM's Smarter Analytics event this week, clients and partners presented success stories about how organizations are driving business value out of big data, analytics,...

                    • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

                      Report:Selecting The Right Sourcing Models For Large ERP Services Deals

                      Best Practices To Decide When And How To Use Multiple Providers

                      Liz HerbertJanuary 25, 2013

                      Single-source versus multisource in large enterprise resource planning (ERP) services deals? This is an ongoing, yet critical, question for ERP clients. The question has no single right answer but,...

                      • Downloads: 183
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