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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  • Customer Experience Management
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    Report:Planning A Co-Creation Workshop? Sweat The Details

    Best Practices For Including Customers, Employees, And Partners In Customer Experience Design

    Co-creation — the practice of involving people from across the customer experience ecosystem in the experience design process — is a valuable and versatile methodology, but it usually...

    • Downloads: 180
    • Comments: 2
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

    • Downloads: 37
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Don't Fix Customer Experience Problems, Prevent Them

    Vision: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

    In a recent survey of customer experience professionals, 86% said that their executives hope to differentiate in the marketplace on the basis of their customer experience. Unfortunately, most...

    • Downloads: 475
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:How CX Professionals Can Use VoC To Surface Pricing Issues

    Inject Customer Experience Insights Into Pricing Decisions

    Pricing can make or break the customer experience (CX). However, most voice of the customer (VoC) programs don't deliver comprehensive data on customers' perception of pricing. This report will show...

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    Report:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

    Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

    Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

    • Downloads: 461
    • Comments: 4
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    Report:End-Of-Life: The Forrester Wave™ EFM Satisfaction And Loyalty Solutions

    After evaluating two categories of enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors in Q3 2011, Forrester will no longer cover the vendor market landscape in the same way. This report explains why the...

    • Downloads: 75
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:The Unified Customer Experience Imperative

    Delivering Experience Excellence Across A Fractured Network Of Digital Touchpoints

    Today's digital landscape is distributed across an array of touchpoints and devices. With customers able to interact through multiple channels at any given moment, firms need to ensure that they...

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    Report:Digital Customer Experience Trends To Watch, 2013

    Landscape: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

    Digital touchpoints support an increasingly large percentage of the overall customer experience. 2012 saw the emergence of several important digital customer experience trends that will gain momentum...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

    Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

    • Downloads: 255
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Mobile Solution Architecture: User Authentication Is The Foundation Of Mobile Trust

    Start Small And Keep An Eye On The Breadth Of Your Future Mobile Scenarios

    User authentication is a key foundation of security for mobile apps — as it is for application security in general. Determining which authentication approach to use for your mobile solution...

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    Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Online social media users, user penetration, and social media advertising spending for 17 Western European countries. Includes historical data back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2012 US Bank Secure Website Rankings

    Citi Moves To The Top With Added Functionality And A New Look

    Digital banking teams want to know where they stack up against competitors when it comes to their secure websites and other digital features — everything from mobile functionality to customer...

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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:The New Physics Of Lead-To-Revenue Management

    Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

    The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

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    Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

    Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

    • Downloads: 63
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Rethink Marketing In The Buyer's Context

    How B2B Marketers Need To Recast Their Approach

    Business-to-business (B2B) marketers must face a new reality: Empowered customers are educating themselves through professional and peer-created content that is available online. Many claim to...

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    Report:Executive Q&A: Forrester's Customer Experience Index

    To help customer experience professionals get the most from Forrester's Customer Experience Index (CXi) research, we've summarized answers to the 10 most frequently asked questions we get from...

    • Downloads: 335
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2013 Mobile Wealth Management Functionality Benchmark

    E-Trade And Fidelity Lead The Pack

    With investor expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital wealth management teams know they need to improve their portfolios of mobile sites and apps. Forrester evaluated the...

    • Downloads: 305
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Winning The Customer Experience Game

    Best Practices For CIOs

    Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...

    • Downloads: 147
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact

    Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

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    Report:Align Your Global Marketing Organization To Deliver On 21st Century Brand Building

    Consumers have higher expectations of 21st century brands, requiring marketers to rethink how they navigate the brand, from reestablishing the brand's North Star to creating a consistent set of brand...

    • Downloads: 88
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Capitalize On The Digital Experience Imperative With Better Governance

    Processes: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

    Organizations still struggle to get the right content to the right consumers at the right time. Outdated technologies, policies, and procedures mean that IT can't keep pace with the business' demands...

    • Downloads: 226
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Mobile Mind Shift Index

    Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations

    Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    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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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

    Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

    How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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    • Comments: 7
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Contextual Delivery And Cross-Channel Analytics Revolutionize Digital Experiences

    Landscape: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

    AD&D pros have had an uphill journey to support digitally enabled customer experiences as they navigate the coordination of existing investments and management of a complicated technology ecosystem....

    • Downloads: 202
 
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