Boris Evelson
Principal analyst, Business Intelligence, Forrester Research
Boris Evelson is a principal analyst, at Forrester Research, in Cambridge, Mass. He has more than 25 years of experience with enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory skills. Boris is one of the driving forces behind Forrester Research'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' 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.