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	Boris Evelson Vice President, Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Analytic Applications, Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, CRM Consulting & Professional Services, CRM Strategy & Deployment, Centers of Expertise, Customer Analytics, Customer Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management Applications, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Domains, Enterprise CRM, Enterprise Collaboration, Executive Dashboards, Financial Services, IT Consulting, IT Management, IT Organization, IT Services, Information & Knowledge Management, Information Architecture, Information Governance, Knowledge Management, Metadata Management, OLAP, Packaged Applications, Professional Services, Query & Reporting Tools, Technology Consulting

Research Focus

Boris serves Business Process Professionals. 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 25 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 business management from Moscow Teacher's College, Russia.

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Did You Know?

Boris is a masterful violinist and enjoys motorcycling in his spare time.