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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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Mobile Technologies That Drive Sales

    Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013

    Layer 7 And WSO2 Lead This Emerging Field

    In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by Intel,...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

    Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

    • Downloads: 353
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    Report:The Future Of Mobile Application Development

    Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

    • Downloads: 1496
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:KonyOne Offers A Flexible, Low-Code Platform

    Going Hands On With KonyOne Shows How Middleware Is Evolving

    In the latest installment in our "hands-on mobile" series, we rebuild and deploy the simple mobile application we built last fall with the KonyOne mobile middleware platform. The KonyOne platform...

    • Downloads: 206
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Build Great Mobile Apps That Drive Engagement

    Executive Overview: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    The mobile shift is driving your business peers and customers to expect (and demand) support across a wide variety of smartphones and tablets. But building mobile apps is different from building...

    • Downloads: 1040
    • Comments: 2
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Build Five-Star Mobile Apps

    Processes: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps out there, and they're all competing for the same mobile users. If you want to reach your customers with a custom mobile app, then you want to make sure...

    • Downloads: 846
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks

    The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework

    One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

    • Downloads: 689
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Security & Risk Professionals

    Report:API Management For Security Pros

    Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...

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