Boris Evelson Boris Evelson
Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Information & Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Financial Services, Professional Services

Research Focus

Boris serves Information & Knowledge Management professionals. 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, as well as identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences.

Boris' current research focuses on some of the latest trends in BI, such as convergence of multiple, formerly separate disciplines of structured and unstructured data, process and data intelligence, real-time BI, and many others into overall enterprise effectiveness and optimization.

Previous Work Experience

Boris has more than 25 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 co-founded Textra after spending several years as a VP and a strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, where he led many successful internal BI initiatives, as well as 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 business management from Moscow Teacher's College, Russia.

Latest Research

Planned Research

Business Intelligence Solutions Center October 2008
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Market Overview: Business Intelligence (BI) Market Size, Growth, Segments, And Leaders October 2008
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Next Generation BI January 2009
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The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence, Q1 2009 February 2009
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Findings From The 2008 BI User Survey November 2008
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Did You Know?

Boris is a masterful violinist and enjoys motorcycling in his spare time.


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Recent Media Citations
IDG News Service, "Business Objects Bets on Convergence in IT Tools," August 12, 2008
Computerworld, "Good Data Remains Key To Success," August 11, 2008
Intelligent Enterprise, "Of BI And Baseball," August 11, 2008
InformationWeek, "And Then There Were Four," April 14, 2008
eWeek, "On-Demand BI Has Merit," April 9, 2008
CIO, "Nine Business Intelligence Vendors to Watch," March 25, 2008