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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.
Executive Overview: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
In today's world of 24x7x365 global operations and competition, downtime results not only in immediate lost revenue and productivity, but also in lasting damage to corporate reputation that erodes...

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Strategic Plan: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their business technology (BT) resiliency strategic plan. A well-documented strategic plan is...
Executive Overview: The S&R Practice Playbook
Today, business leaders expect the CISO to not only protect the organization from run-of-the-mill hackers but to also protect its brand and competitive advantage in the marketplace — all while...

In a recent Forrester/DRJ joint survey on BC preparedness, of organizations that have invoked a BC plan in the last five years, 37% said that their BC plans had not adequately addressed...
Assessment Framework: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report provides the maturity assessment of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives looking to build their mobile security and...

Vision: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives planning their organization's business technology (BT) resiliency strategy — the...

Guest Post From Researcher Chris Sherman Traditional antivirus techniques have been fighting a losing battle for years. Popular hacker exploit kits pounce on new vulnerabilities quickly...
Strategic Plan: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the strategic vision of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives leading the development of their firm's mobile...

Benchmark: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to benchmark the performance of their business continuity (BC) programs as part of their broader business...

Business Case: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's guidance for a business technology resiliency (BTR) business case. This is a critical step when securing funding because management is often reluctant to fund...

We would like to know, in the event of a disaster: 1) Whom should we call; 2) what format is best; 3) what kind of information/instructions should we provide on the call; and 4) what kind of...
Today's Live Stream 8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m. EST Day 1 Opening Remarks Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Research Director, Forrester 8:45 a.m.-9:30 a.m. EST Forrester Keynote: Maturing The...
There is truth to the meme, “data is the new oil.” Data is the lifeblood of today's digital businesses, and for economic and even political gain, highly skilled...
Today's Live Stream 8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m. EST Day 2 Opening Remarks Stephanie Balaouras, Principal Analyst, Research Director, Forrester 8:45 a.m.-9:30 a.m. EST Forrester Keynote: Moving To...
Although a business impact analysis (BIA) is a key part of putting together a disaster recovery plan, many companies neglect to conduct one. Forrester believes it's worthwhile to take a step back and...
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From frantic security operations problems to the changing threat landscape, CISOs, senior security leaders, and other IT risk management leaders consistently have trouble keeping up with key trends...

Among risk professionals who have successfully navigated their organization through a crisis, almost all will say that they had grossly underestimated the difficulty of communicating effectively...
The current state of business continuity management (BCM) standards? Abysmal. According to a joint Forrester/DRJ study, 69% of respondents said that British Standard (BS) 25999 did not influence or...
What are some of the options for backup encryption?