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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.
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Explosive 3G adoption in China over the past 24 months has made mobile Internet a much more competitive landscape, with new and unconventional market players entering the fray. Most of the activity...

The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...
This document provides vendor strategists with an evaluation of Cisco's corporate restructuring announcement. Cisco's vision is explained and its network-centric offerings are analyzed. Additionally,...
Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities strategy has moved beyond concept stage with real business opportunities now emerging in several key hypergrowth markets. As distinct from other vendor's attempts...
This document offers a brief overview of enterprise networking in Asia for vendor strategists. Market outlooks are provided on the overall Asia Pacific market, vertical industries, and the countries...
Differentiation And Precise Market Segmentation Will Determine Success
As the Asia Pacific cloud market develops, it is becoming extremely crowded with competitors looking to position — or reposition — for future success. Many traditional telecommunications...

Increasing smartphone penetration and a growing number of mobile workers are making mobility strategies an imperative for Asian enterprises. To capture growing corporate demand for enterprise...
The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012
The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

Securing The Right Partnership Model Will Be Critical To Success
China's public cloud market is expecting strong growth until 2020. However, the combination of opaque Chinese government policies, unique business culture, and rapidly evolving perceptions of cloud...

Regional Success Gives The Firm A Head Start, But The Global Enterprise Market Is A Whole New Ballgame
Huawei Technologies officially entered the global enterprise market in 2011, aiming to grow its market share by leveraging its experience in the carrier network equipment market and broadening its...
