Boris Evelson

Boris serves application development and delivery professionals. He is a leading expert in insights-driven business (IDB) capabilities. Boris delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define IDB strategies, governance, and architectu…res 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 IDB strategies and roadmaps, including a holistic look at people, process, data, and technology components. Boris also continues to explore emerging trends such as infusion of AI capabilities into IDB technologies and how advanced IDB capabilities are a key part of modern adaptive enterprises.

Latest from Boris Evelson

TIBCO’s acquisition of information builders signals more BI market consolidation

BI technology is very mature, to a point of being commoditized. As a result, independent vendors cannot withstand pricing pressure and need to find alternatives, such as being acquired.

October 27, 2020 by Boris Evelson in Big Data

BI is dead; long live BI

Enterprise business intelligence is thriving. Here are five trends that will shape its future.

September 24, 2020 by Boris Evelson in Big Data

Make BI applications more intuitive with search like GUI

Forrester breaks down the current landscape of business intelligence platforms.

January 23, 2018 by Boris Evelson in Digital Transformation

AWS QuickSight will disrupt business intelligence, analytics markets

Amazon announced its cloud BI platform at re:Invent. What does this mean to the crowded BI market?

October 7, 2015 by Boris Evelson in Cloud

Mark Twain, US Politics, and the state of enterprise BI

If you haven’t yet heard the latest news on the American political scene, let me fill you in: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and soliciting bribery. Among the alleged offenses is that the Governor planned to sell the Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder, or, if no offers met his expectations, to take the seat for himself for personal gain.

December 10, 2008 by Boris Evelson in Tech & Work

Revolution? Please, Not Again!

I am appalled at what has been happening in the economy lately. Seems like we are moving from one crisis management to another.

October 17, 2008 by Boris Evelson in Enterprise Software

BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think

Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills.

October 7, 2008 by Boris Evelson in Data Management