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Boris Evelson

Boris Evelson

Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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.

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.

Boris Evelson

Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Read Boris's blog posts

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.

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: Stay On Top Of New BI Technologies To Lead Your Enterprise Into The Not-Too-Distant Future

    Continuous Improvement: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    October 13, 2017Boris Evelson

    Many business intelligence (BI) environments built on earlier-generation platforms fail to deliver fast, agile, and actionable business insights. As market dynamics change quickly in the age of the customer, so do the data and analytics technologies that have recently become available to BI developers and users. This report gives application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals a glimpse into the emerging BI technologies available today that will transform their existing data and analytics investments into systems of insight.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: Next-Generation Business Intelligence Is Here — More Automated, Pervasive, And Actionable

    Vision: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    September 15, 2017Boris Evelson

    Older-generation business intelligence (BI) applications cost too much and take too long to develop and deploy. In the next two to five years, only the insights-driven enterprises — those that can react swiftly to new and constantly changing customer and regulatory requirements — will succeed and survive. In this report, we reveal how application development and delivery (AD&D) pros can transform their existing data and analytics investments into systems of insight with fully automated, pervasive, and actionable BI. This is an update of a previously published report; Forresterreviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms With Majority Cloud Deployments, Q3 2017

    Ten Solutions Offer Choice In An Environment Characterized By Innovation

    September 11, 2017 Martha Bennett, Boris Evelson

    In our 22-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms with majority cloud-deployment providers (some of whom also offer complete or partial on-premises options), we identified the 10 most significant ones — 1010data, Altair, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Birst, Domo, GoodData, InsightSquared, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report, along with the companion Forrester Wave™ evaluation of enterprise BI platforms with majority on-premises deployments, Q3 2017, will help application development and delivery (AD&D) pros working on BI initiatives make the right choice of BI platforms.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms With Majority On-Premises Deployments, Q3 2017

    A Significant Reshuffling Of Vendor Positions In A Changing Landscape

    September 11, 2017Boris Evelson, Martha Bennett

    In our 22-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms with majority on-premises deployments providers (that also have cloud deployment options), we identified the 15 most significant ones — BOARD International, IBM, Information Builders, Looker, MicroStrategy, OpenText, Panorama, Pyramid Analytics, Qlik, SAP, SAS, Sisense, Tableau Software, TIBCO Software, and Yellowfin — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report, along with the companion Forrester Wave™ evaluation of enterprise BI platforms with majority cloud deployments, Q3 2017, will help AD&D pros working on BI initiatives make the right choice of BI platforms.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: Grow Your Business And Compete By Creating A Winning Business Intelligence Strategy

    Executive Overview: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    September 1, 2017Boris Evelson

    Enterprise business intelligence (BI) is chock-full of challenges. Only partially a science, it remains mostly art based on best practices and lessons learned. Rather than reinvent the wheel, application development and delivery (AD&D) pros working on BI initiatives should leverage Forrester's business intelligence playbook — a series of reports with practical and actionable advice on how to jumpstart any BI initiative or turn around a failed one. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: Topic Overview: Business Intelligence

    November 21, 2008Boris Evelson

    Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make informed business decisions with real-time data that can put a company ahead of its competitors. Traditionally, core features like reporting and analytics have been the focus of BI technology choices, but as those features get commoditized, a whole new set of possibilities has emerged. Forrester's BI research shows that the technology is evolving and that enterprises on the cutting edge of these new trends can gain competitive advantage in their industries.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008

    July 31, 2008Boris Evelson

    In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle and SAS Institute move into leadership positions in enterprise BI thanks to the richness of their functionality, ability to scale, and the completeness of their corporate and product vision and strategy. Actuate, Information Builders, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, SAP, and a new entrant, TIBCO Spotfire, came out as Strong Performers following very closely on the heels of the Leaders, offering very respectable alternatives and a multitude of choices for information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals. New entrants to this Forrester Wave™ evaluation of enterprise BI platforms (though not new to the market) are Panorama Software and QlikTech, who, while lacking the breadth of features to qualify them as single, large-enterprise BI solutions, are reputable Contenders. In some very specific BI use cases, they even outperform the Leaders.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

    IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, and Oracle Lead, With Information Builders, SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy Close Behind

    October 20, 2010Boris Evelson

    In Forrester's 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders , SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy led the pack because of the completeness of not just BI, but overall information management functionality. Actuate came out as a Strong Performer on the heels of the Leaders offering equal — or in some cases superior — BI functionality, but it mostly relies on partners for the rest of its information management capabilities. TIBCO Spotfire also came out as a Strong Performer offering top choices for analytics, even surpassing other Strong Performers in the overall information management arena based on its traditional strength in middleware and application integration. Last but not least, QlikTech and Panorama Software moved up from Contenders and into the Strong Performers category based on the continuous improvements in their analytical capabilities.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: Quantify The Tangible Business Value Of BI

    Business Case: The Business Intelligence Playbook

    March 1, 2016Boris Evelson, Martha Bennett

    The business case report of the business intelligence (BI) playbook guides application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on BI initiatives through the maze of BI business case categories and typical BI ROI components, and it identifies areas where quick wins are possible. Forrester reviews and updates the BI playbook reports periodically for continued relevance and accuracy; we revised this edition to factor in the latest findings from Forrester's Q4 2015 Global Business Intelligence Business Case Online Survey.

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    REPORT: Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

    Align Data Management Roles To Create Stronger Business Value

    February 2, 2011 Noel Yuhanna, Gene Leganza, Rob Karel, Boris Evelson, James G. Kobielus, Leslie Owens

    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 access are motivating enterprises to get more control of data management strategy and data architecture. More importantly, more and more businesses use insight derived from data as a key corporate asset for competitive differentiation. Enterprises need effective data management architecture to support their changing business requirements and ensure that they always use trusted and secure data for key processes. But myriad choices and new data requirements inundate data architects, enterprise architects, database administrators, and data quality specialists. Forrester's data management reference architecture provides a framework, including architectural patterns and building blocks, to guide these data management stakeholders in managing strategy and architecture.

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