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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.
The 12 Market Leaders That Deserve To Be On Most Shortlists
In the past few years, the business intelligence (BI) services market has evolved significantly: advisory and management consulting firms have beefed up their implementation capabilities, while...

These data charts present the findings of the Q2 2012 Global BI Maturity Online Survey.
Use Forrester's Approach To Help You Get More For Your Money
Many business intelligence (BI) vendors do not publish list prices. Some do not even provide list prices under NDA to their customers and prospects. Plus, BI pricing and licensing models differ...
These data charts are based on the June 2011 Global Big Data Online Survey.
This set of data charts presents the findings from Forrester's Q4 2010 Global BI Maturity Online Survey. The data charts also highlight the differences and trends from our Q4 2009 survey.
This set of data charts highlights BI-related findings from Forrester's recent Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2009.

Sourcing Professionals Sift Through Choices With Multiple Dimensions
Forrester sees strong interest from technology buyers in business intelligence (BI), including the significant expansion of existing BI initiatives as well as new projects. Key areas of investment...
This set of data charts present the findings from Forrester's Q4 2009 Global BI Maturity Online Survey.
This set of data charts examines BI adoption trends from Forrester's recent Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008.
The Forrester Perspective On SharePoint And Microsoft BI Survey Responses
By nature, business intelligence (BI) transforms raw, meaningless data into meaningful, tangible, and actionable information. But successful BI requires multiple components and steps that must be...
Practical Advice Applicable To Any Economic Condition
As an economic downturn becomes a sobering reality, enterprises look for various ways to increase revenues and reduce costs. While overall IT budgets become targets for cost cutting, business...
Our latest data shows that enterprises are slowly but surely beginning to adopt the newest BI features like open source, end-user self-service, and search-BI convergence.
Current State Of BI Adoption In Enterprises: Plenty Of Room For Growth And Improvement
Microsoft's DATAllegro Acquisition Is The Tipping Point
Many information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals consider the data warehouse (DW) appliance niche as distinct from — and a bit less mature than — the market for...
Move Changes Competitive and Partnering Dynamics
IBM's planned acquisition of Cognos comes as little surprise following SAP's announcement to acquire Business Objects and Oracle's recent acquisition of Hyperion. IBM's move is cleaner in terms of...
ERP Leader Accelerates Growth Strategy With Business Objects Acquisition
SAP, in a complete turnaround from its prior organic growth and "tuck-in" acquisitions strategy, announced its intention to acquire Business Objects on October 7, 2007. This move parallels similar...
Business Objects announced its intent to acquire Inxight Software this week — officially validating the convergence of business intelligence applications that rely on both structured and...
With the announcement of the Hyperion acquisition, Oracle did, again, what it does best — made a bold play to absorb a key competitor's technology and customer base. While this acquisition...