BI in Action

Boris Evelson - As a principal analyst, Boris leads Forrester's research into business intelligence (BI): how enterprises and vendors transform raw data into meaningful, useful, and action-oriented information. Boris delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define enterprise BI strategies, governance, and architectures, as well as identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences. In addition to popular topics like information governance and best practices, his current research focuses on some of the latest trends in BI, such as convergence of process and data intelligence, on-demand BI, convergence of structured and unstructured data intelligence, and implications of ever-growing data volumes on BI.

Boris comes to Forrester with more than 25 years of enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory experience. Most recently, Boris was a managing partner at Textra, a boutique strategic advisory firm serving all information technology constituents: users, vendors, and investors. Boris co-founded Textra after spending several years as a VP and strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, where he led many successful internal BI initiatives, as well as advising the bank's large enterprise software clients on enterprise adoption issues and product strategies. Prior to JPMorgan, Boris served as a senior manager of BI and CRM practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Boris started his career at Citibank, where, among many other successful projects, he implemented the bank's first global risk data warehouse.

Boris holds a degree in business management from Moscow Teacher's College, Russia.