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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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    Report:Automate Your Performance Management Activities

    Performance Management: The Services Sourcing Playbook

    William MartorelliJune 27, 2012

    Performance management is one of the most essential aspects of services governance, yet also one of the most challenging. It consists essentially of tracking vendor performance against established...

    • Downloads: 471
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    Report:Cloud Sourcing Models Dictate Sourcing Strategy

    The Diversity Of Solutions Poses New Challenges For SVM Professionals

    William MartorelliFebruary 14, 2013

    Anxious to take advantage of the rapid growth rates associated with cloud services, technology services vendors have developed a host of new solutions. These include pure infrastructure-as-a-service...

    • Downloads: 262
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    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: 24
    • Comments: 1

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    Report:The Applications Outsourcing Market Hits The Crossroads

    The New Foundations For Innovation In A Maturing Industry

    William MartorelliJanuary 17, 2013

    As more IT organizations operate under the dueling mandates of delivering cost savings and innovation, suppliers of applications outsourcing services are getting ready for the next phase of their...

    • Downloads: 298

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    Report:Demand Innovation From Your Workplace Services Supplier

    Invest In Innovation Governance To Overcome Suppliers' Hesitancy

    William MartorelliMay 02, 2013

    Forrester interviewed 40 customer references across 14 suppliers as part of the 2013 Forrester Wave™ evaluations of workplace services providers. Customers had nearly uniform praise for the...

    • Downloads: 55

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Global Workplace Services, Q1 2013

    Evaluating Leading Providers Amidst A Category Redefinition

    William Martorelli, Wolfgang BenkelMarch 25, 2013

    Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

    • Downloads: 221
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    Report:Addressing Key Obstacles In Setting Cloud Deals

    Avoid Frustration By Changing Your Expectations For Cloud Providers

    William MartorelliJuly 13, 2012

    Forrester clients are often anxious to access the rapid provisioning and flexibility promised by providers of cloud technologies, but they too often languish in lengthy legal- and...

    • Downloads: 263
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    Report:Managed Hosting: Still Relevant Despite Cloud's Rise

    Managed Hosting Remains A Viable Alternative Or Complement To The Cloud

    William MartorelliNovember 09, 2012

    If you've been reading the press, you could be forgiven for assuming that enterprise-class managed hosting would have transitioned entirely to the cloud by now. Yet the pace of managed hosting's...

    • Downloads: 317
    • Comments: 1
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    Report:Linking IT Services Activities To Business Value

    Business Impact: The Services Sourcing Playbook

    William MartorelliNovember 15, 2012

    Linking IT services engagements, including outsourcing relationships, directly to any type of business value other than cost savings remains a challenge. However, it is a challenge sourcing and...

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: North American Workplace Services, Q2 2013

    Evaluating Leading Providers Amidst A Category Redefinition

    William Martorelli, Wolfgang BenkelApril 30, 2013

    Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

    • Downloads: 123

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: EMEA Workplace Services, Q2 2013

    Providers Driving Workplace Services In EMEA

    Wolfgang Benkel, William MartorelliMay 14, 2013

    Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

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