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Boris Evelson

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

Boris holds a degree in music education from Moscow Gnessin School Of Music, Russia.

Research Coverage:

Analytics Applications, Business Intelligence, CRM Applications, Center of Expertise, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Architecture Domains, Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Process, Enterprise Collaboration, IT Organization, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Packaged Applications

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    Report:Quantify The Tangible Business Value Of BI

    Business Case: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris Evelson, Martha BennettMay 14, 2013

    As the demand for pervasive and comprehensive business intelligence (BI) applications increases, so do the complexity and cost of large enterprise BI implementations. Organizations must demonstrate...

    • Downloads: 2062

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

    Six Leaders And Six Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The End User BI Market

    Boris EvelsonJune 12, 2012

    In Forrester's 31-criteria evaluation of self-service business intelligence (BI) vendors, we found that IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy led the pack due to the breadth of...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Future Of BI

    Vision: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris Evelson, Anjali YakkundiJanuary 10, 2012

    Demands by users of business intelligence (BI) applications to "just get it done" are turning typical BI relationships, such as business/IT alignment and the roles that traditional and...

    • Downloads: 1668

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

    Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market

    Boris Evelson, Noel YuhannaJuly 17, 2012

    Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In...

    • Downloads: 1179
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    Report:Build An Agile BI Organization

    Organization: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris EvelsonJanuary 25, 2013

    Earlier-generation business intelligence (BI) support centers — organized along the same lines as support centers for all other enterprise software — fall short when it comes to taking...

    • Downloads: 1257

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

    Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris Evelson, Noel YuhannaNovember 01, 2012

    In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

    • Downloads: 1155
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Drive Business Insight With Effective BI Strategy

    Executive Overview: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris Evelson, Anjali YakkundiMay 14, 2013

    How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

    • Downloads: 1093

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Updated 2012: BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool

    Boris Evelson, Liz HerbertJanuary 10, 2012

    Create a shortlist using our tool to find the right set of providers based on your technology requirements, industry, project size, and geographic scope.Eliminate or add partners based on factors...

    • Downloads: 136

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Decide When To Buy, Build, Or Outsource BI

    Tools And Technology: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris Evelson, Anjali YakkundiAugust 23, 2012

    Building custom business intelligence (BI) solutions is time-consuming and inflexible; therefore, application development and delivery (AD&D) pros heading BI projects should move away from a...

    • Downloads: 622

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Update 2011: Forrester's BI Maturity Assessment Tool

    Anjali Yakkundi, Boris EvelsonDecember 21, 2011

    Forrester recommends using this business intelligence (BI) maturity assessment tool at the beginning of any new strategic BI initiative to help you better understand your current state and strategic...

    • Downloads: 174

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:BI Maturity In The Enterprise: 2012 Update

    Boris EvelsonAugust 07, 2012

    These data charts present the findings of the Q2 2012 Global BI Maturity Online Survey.

    • Downloads: 174

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    Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

    Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris EvelsonJanuary 04, 2013

    Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

    • Downloads: 260

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:BI On BI: How To Manage The Performance Of BI Initiatives

    Performance Management: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    Boris EvelsonMay 02, 2013

    Business intelligence (BI) is often defined as processes and technologies to manage business performance, with the ultimate goal of making more informed decisions based on real data, not hunches. But...

    • Downloads: 153
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