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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.
Mobile banking is on a steep rise in the US. Almost one-third of online bankers currently conduct banking activities through their mobile handsets, and this population is poised to more than double...
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Mobile payments data by payment type. Includes mobile remittances segmented by domestic and cross-border, proximity payments, and remote commerce as well as bill pay users. Includes data back to 2010...
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Global installed base and subscribers for smartphones in 54 countries. Also includes global and regional data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only). Breaks out age and income...
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Adoption of mobile banking by individual mobile users. The forecast segments the addressable market and reports for mobile bankers by generation (age), phone type, access type (SMS, mobile site,...
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Smartphone installed base and subscriber data in the United States. Includes data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only) as well as age and income ownership demographics. Includes...
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Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...
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Adoption of mobile banking by individual mobile users in the EU-7 countries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and UK. The forecast segments the addressable market and...
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Adoption of online banking by individual US adults. The forecast reports the addressable market and online bankers by generation and income. Historical data dating back to 2008 plus a...
By Susan Huynh, Forecast Analyst Recently I published a forecast about mobile subscriptions and mobile subscribers (people) by region, worldwide. In 2012, more than half of the world’s...
With just over a billion people around the world having a smartphone in 2012, and the next billion smartphone adopters joining in within the next five years, smartphones have reached a tipping point....
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Adoption of online banking by individual adults in the EU-7 countries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and UK. The forecast reports the addressable market and...
The rapid adoption of smartphones and mobile Internet usage is changing the way US consumers shop. Although still nascent, mobile commerce is poised for exponential growth. Mobile retail and travel...
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Smartphone installed base and subscriber data for 16 countries in Western Europe. Includes age and income ownership demographics by country as well as subscribers by operating system for selected...
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Includes mobile buyers as well as revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, and daily deals, with average spend per mobile buyer. Includes data from 2010 plus a five-year forecast.
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Includes mobile subscriptions and mobile subscribers (people) by region and country. Also includes mobile Internet users by country and region. Includes historical data going back to 2008 plus a...