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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:Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

    Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

    Noel Yuhanna, Gene Leganza, Rob Karel, Boris Evelson, James Kobielus G., Leslie OwensFebruary 02, 2011

    The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

    • Downloads: 2793

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    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:Implementing Your Business Intelligence Solutions Center

    Mitigate Common Pitfalls To Optimize The Return On Your BI Investment

    Boris Evelson, James Kobielus G.November 04, 2008

    The increasing pervasiveness, complexity, and criticality of today's business intelligence (BI) applications have led enterprises to recognize the need for something more formal than a traditional IT...

    • Downloads: 1724

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    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:Enterprise BI Survey Q&A: BI Professionals Recognize The Need To Focus Beyond Tools

    Forrester's Perspective On BI Survey Client Responses

    Boris Evelson, Rob KarelMarch 17, 2009

    Business intelligence (BI) remains a top priority for many enterprises, but delivering successful BI capabilities goes far beyond just the tools and enabling technologies. Historically, foundational...

    • Downloads: 976

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes

    HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning

    Claire Schooley, Boris EvelsonNovember 07, 2011

    Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...

    • Downloads: 899

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Trends In Business Intelligence Organizational Structures

    Boris Evelson, Rob KarelJune 07, 2011

    This set of data charts presents the results of the May 2011 Global Business Intelligence Organization Online Survey.

    • Downloads: 54

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Make Customer-Facing BI Agile

    Agile Methods Improve Customer Intelligence

    Boris EvelsonJune 24, 2011

    Customer Intelligence (CI) is a subset of business intelligence (BI); CI and BI professionals share similar struggles, particularly when it comes to implementing applications that produce valuable,...

    • Downloads: 475

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    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
 
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