Boris Evelson
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research Inc.

Boris is one of the driving forces behind Forrester's offerings for Information and Knowledge Management 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, as well as identify vendors and technologies that help them put information to use in business processes and end user experiences.

Boris's current research focuses on some of the latest trends in BI, such as convergence of multiple, formerly separate disciplines of structured and unstructured data, process and data intelligence, real-time BI, and many others into overall enterprise effectiveness and optimization.

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 information technology constituents: users, vendors, and investors. Boris co-founded Textra after spending several years as a VP and a strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, where he led many successful internal BI initiatives, as well as advising 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.