Boris Evelson

@forrester just published a dozen 2026 budget planning guides for technology, #data, #analytics, #AI, security, #marketing leaders including forrester.com/report/budget-… by yours truly. Each guide has detailed "invest", "divest/reduce/pause", and "experiment" recommendations.

Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025 Research forrester.com/blogs/key-take… 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 linkedin.com/posts/bevelson… @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? linkedin.com/posts/bevelson… #businessintelligence

50% of organizations deploy 4 or more #businessintelligence platforms (that % has been gyrating between 50% and 60% over the last few years). How many does your organization deploy? forms.office.com/r/cLaYLs3ZGg @forrester

Everything is getting more expensive, and #businessintelligence #BI is no exception - #Microsoft raises #PowerBI prices forrester.com/blogs/everythi… @forrester #analytics

“To flagrantly bastardize a popular Zen koan: If a data point sits in a data center and never impacts a decision, does it have value? The answer is unambiguously “no.”” By @bcpurcell from @forrester forrester.com/report/connect… #businessintelligence #AI #analytics

Even #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #generativeAI #genAI has already been commoditized in #businessintelligence #BI functionality linkedin.com/posts/bevelson… @forrester AI Is Now A Core Capability Of BI Platforms (forrester.com)

#generativeAI #genAI is NOT disrupting enterprise #businessintelligence #analytics market, but rather adding incremental value, and not without cost and risk. @forrester

In '24 companies at the advanced #data #analytics #businessintelligence maturity levels are nearly 8 times as likely to report being ahead of the industry average instead of below while companies at the beginner level are only about 4 times as likely. @forrester

Still time to join forrester.com/webinar/Findin… starting in 30 mins #NLP #textmining #textanalytics #LLM #generativeAI @forrester

What are the dimensions of #datadriven data-driven decision making? Please consider taking a short Forrester survey forrester.com/blogs/master-t…

The explosion of #generativeAI #LLMs activity has brought w it a new vocabulary that's foreign to many tech & data leaders and their teams. To avoid talking past one another, teams must have a shared understanding of the new #genAI vocabulary. @forrester forrester.com/report/generat…

How do we bring #businessintelligence #analytics to the "other" 80% of business users? forrester.com/blogs/bring-da… @forrester

@forrester forrester.com/blogs/announci… by @mgualtieri and Rowan Curran. My key takeaway #generativeAI #genAI #businessintelligence #analytics #NLP #documentanalytics #textanalytics : know your #LLM strengths & weaknesses, insist on bring-any-LLM architecture from ur tech provider

Great to catch up with #businessintelligence #analytics #datamanagement industry veterans @shawnrog @jfhagerty at #QlikConnect

Looking for a platform to automate your #intelligentautomation #intelligentdocumentprocessing #IDP #RPA and other #NLP use cases? Look no further than @forrester forrester.com/report/the-for… Congrats to all of the participants!

Looking for a platform to automate your #CX #EX #contactcenter #conversationintelligence #marketresearch #competitiveintelligence and other #NLP use cases? Look no further than @forrester forrester.com/report/the-for… Congrats to all of the participants!

Obviously the only correct answer to my question is "it depends". Still, how does the following sound: u need 1 data/analytics pro to support ~10 "power" business users, then in turn each one of these is needed to support ~10 (+/- 20%) casual business users. Reactions? #analytics

@AjaRaden We, his colleagues, and definitely yours truly, will miss him dearly. Please accept my deepest condolences.

My dad died today.