Boris Evelson
Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
#BusinessIntelligence #textanalytics #NLP #NLG #Analytics #BigData industry analyst at Forrester Research [email protected]
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1 month ago |
forrester.com | Fiona Mark |Boris Evelson |Matthew Selheimer
Many organizations, especially federal agencies, are facing unprecedented upheaval as they implement large-scale workforce reductions. For technology leaders, many navigating this process for the first time, layoffs represent a particularly challenging leadership test that cannot be executed without significant trade-offs.
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1 month ago |
forrester.com | Emily Pfeiffer |Nikhil Lai |Chuck Gahun |Boris Evelson
In conversations, retailers tell us they’re losing site traffic – anywhere from 15% to half in the past year. Reasons vary: one retailer asked us how to adapt to AI-integrated search, attributing their fall to conversational search features like Google’s AI Overviews displacing clicks that would, pre-ChatGPT, have landed on their site.
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1 month ago |
forrester.com | Boris Evelson |Alvin Nguyen |Kate Leggett
Forrester recently published our latest wave of BI research: The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025. There are two important takeaways from the research that are contrary to the media narrative on business intelligence:BI is Alive and Well. For the past 20 years, Forrester has consistently encountered predictions from other analysts and vendors claiming that “BI is dead.” These predictions have repeatedly been proven incorrect.
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Nov 12, 2024 |
forrester.com | Boris Evelson |George Lawrie |Dipanjan Chatterjee
When clients inquire about enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform pricing, I always advise them to simply divide the annual contract price by the number of expected users. If the resulting number is around $10 per user per month, I tell the client they are in a good spot. Why? For platforms with pricey develop/admin licenses, these expensive licenses are a tiny fraction of the overall user base and have little impact on total cost.
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Aug 14, 2024 |
forrester.com | William Dahlgren |Boris Evelson |Paul McKay
Every year, an ever-increasing number of geospatial professionals descend on San Diego for the Annual Esri User Conference. This year was no exception – over 20K professionals focused on various aspects of geographic information systems (GIS), which include location intelligence, came from all parts of the world to talk shop.
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Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025 Research https://t.co/e5e9nBSV2z via @Forrester #BusinessIntelligence #GenerativeAI
Interviewing users of leading #businessintelligence vendors/platforms about their use of conversational UI - natural language to query #NLQ . So far very few positive results. Some of the reasons https://t.co/Me4xGb0g2M @forrester
In the age of #generativeAI #genAI #NLQ is no longer just Natural Language to Query (eg, it could be natural language to #Python). Is NLQ now Natural Language data Questions? https://t.co/tJvmc69Erj #businessintelligence
