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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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Includes audience, buyers, and revenues for online content, including news, video, games, and music for the EU-7. Regional data and individual data for France, Germany, Italy, the...
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Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...
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Total mobile subscribers, total handsets, and mobile Internet users. Includes installed base of mobile handsets by technology (2.5G, 3G, and 4G/LTE) and phone type (smartphone, quick messaging, and...
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Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display and search. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size. Includes data dating back to 2005...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
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Dedicated eReader device unit sales, users by demography, and installed base, with eBook and physical book spending. Includes historical data going back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.
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Spending by companies on mobile and tablet marketing segmented by display, search, and social. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size as well as mobile video...
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Details the market size and analyzes the key drivers behind the growth in digital games, music, and video spend on mobile and tablet devices. The forecast breaks down consumer behavior of mobile...
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Global sales and installed base for tablet devices in 53 countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...
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Includes mobile commerce buyers and revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, daily deals, and gaming app downloads. Country level detail for France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,...
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Adoption, ownership, and life cycle for Blu-ray Disc players, console game devices, and HDTVs. Contains data for each device on connectable and connected households. Includes historical data going...
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TV households by subscription service and digital TV households with DVR households by service. Includes historical data going back to 2000 plus a five-year forecast.
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Total and online travel spending for unmanaged business and leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, rail, hotel, and car hire. Includes regional and individual country data for...
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Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending for 16 Western European countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country...
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Total mobile subscribers and subscriptions including prepaid subscriptions. Installed base and sales of mobile handsets segmented by speed (2.5G, 3G, and 4G/LTE) and feature set (basic devices,...
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Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total retail sales. Also includes online buyers, online...
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Global sales and installed base of eReader devices in 53 countries. Also includes total book (physical and digital) and eBook spending for each country. Includes historical data back to 2010 plus a...