Boris EvelsonPrincipal Analyst
Analytic Applications, Business Activity Monitoring , Business Intelligence, Business Performance Solutions, Business Process Management, Customer Analytics, Customer Relationship Management, Data Mining & Advanced Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Domains, Enterprise Collaboration, Financial Management, Financial Services, Information & Knowledge Management, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, OLAP, Packaged Applications, Predictive Analytics, Professional Services, Query & Reporting Tools
Boris serves Business Process & Applications 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.
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.
Boris holds a degree in business management from Moscow Teacher's College, Russia.
Forrester's BI Maturity Assessment Tool September 11, 2009
The Business Case for BI: Now More Critical Than Ever August 25, 2009 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
Latest BI Adoption Trends -- Still Ripe In Opportunities Across Regions, Company Sizes, And Industries August 06, 2009
Fit Your Data Architecture To Your Analytical Needs July 09, 2009 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
SharePoint And BI Survey Q&A: The Last Mile To Business Intelligence Users May 19, 2009 (Rating: 6) BookmarkPDF
Forrester TechRadar: Business Intelligence April 2010 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
The Forrester Wave: Open Source Business Intelligence, Q4 2009 January 2010 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
The ROI Of BI April 2010 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Market Overview: BI Systems Integrators January 2010 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Market Overview: Business Intelligence Pricing And Licensing January 2010 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Boris is a masterful violinist and enjoys motorcycling in his spare time.