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Vikram leads the forecast team, which is responsible for producing all forecasts within M&S research. He is focused on the consumer commerce areas including retail, travel, and financial services. He is keenly involved in understanding the evolution of consumers' online behavior and technology adoption.
Vikram came to Forrester Research through its acquisition of Jupiter Research, where he started in July 2000. Prior to Jupiter, Vikram worked at IRI, a leading market research company, where he worked closely with some of the leading CPG companies.
Vikram often appears on TV, radio, and comments in the press on the US online retail and travel industry. He has been quoted in The L.A. Times, Business Week, The New York Times, CNN Money, and American Banker. He has also appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Radio, NPR, Fox Business News, and ABC.
Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.
Wells Fargo's Second Attempt At Online Chat Finds Incremental Success
Wells Fargo was a pioneer in the use of online chat in 2002. While that initial move into live help met with mixed results, the desire on the team's part to inject human assistance into the process...
This document offers a brief overview of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in Asia for vendor strategists. Key conclusions regarding SaaS in 2009, along with predictions for SaaS in 2010, are offered.
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
Four Crucial Steps To Succeed With Asset-Based IT Services Offerings
Forrrester has previously described why the move to software asset-based offerings has been slow to date and what steps service vendors are increasingly taking in order to successfully grow their...

This document provides a comprehensive background of public sector dynamics in the Philippines in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully. Particular...
Functional and industry-specific on-premises packaged apps aligned with organizational silos have worked well for well-defined, highly structured processes where volume, scale, and straight-through...

This document provides early and accurate market size estimates for 2010 in China, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is based...
Using Digital Touchpoints To Enhance Advisor-Client Relationships
In the past, financial advisors and agents typically didn't involve clients in the advice generation process. They worked their magic behind the scenes and then presented clients with the final...
This document provides an overview of IT services within the ASEAN countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam for vendor strategists. The report discusses market...
Develop Your Priorities Before Making An IVR Vendor Selection
Infrastructure decision-makers who plan to upgrade their interactive voice response (IVR) system should consider changes in customers' expectations, technology improvements, and cost models before...
Q1 2011 Global Message Archiving Online Survey
A combination of eDiscovery needs, IT objectives, and regulatory requirements continues to drive strong message archiving adoption. The mature message archiving market, however, is in a clear...
This documents provides vendor strategists with an analysis of facts and fiction of cloud computing and IT business partners. It highlights data on adoption, areas of implementation, and main...
These are the data tables for the report "Public Sector IT Opportunity: Philippines." The report provides a comprehensive background of public sector dynamics in the Philippines in order to enable...
US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace
This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...
An Empowered Report: Part 2
A customer relationship management (CRM) highly empowered and resourceful operative (HERO) is anyone who takes the initiative to apply technologies creatively within business processes to make the...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Turkey. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market opportunities in Turkey more...

Are You Making The Most Of The Benefits On Offer?
Whether acquired via the Microsoft Select Plus agreement or Enterprise Agreement (EA), many organizations have signed up to the Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) program, but time and again we find...
Why The Validation Process Is Critical To Product Strategy Success
"Ideate" is the first stage in the product development cycle; it's a time when product strategists gather ideas for new and innovative products and services. Before moving on to subsequent phases,...

This document provides market size estimates for 2010 in Australia and New Zealand, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is based...
Single-Source Your Storage Vendor And Explore NFS As The Storage Protocol To Support Growing Virtual Server Environments
Virtual server technology is a unifying technology in IT infrastructure around the world. As maturity increases, more critical production applications are being deployed virtually, raising the stakes...

Human resource management (HRM) processes and applications remain vital for organizations to enhance talent retention and workforce productivity; yet, Forrester survey data indicates the level of IT...
It's hard to believe, but some enterprises still use custom-coded Web content management (WCM) solutions. However, consumer demands have forced firms to shift from just managing and publishing Web...
Smart City Governance Brings New Opportunities For Tech Providers
Interest in smart cities has taken off like wildfire. Cities of all sizes navigate the challenge — growing demand for new constituent services within increasingly constrained budgets —...

Adoption Is Low But Market Impact Is High As Buyers Consider Alternatives
At home and at work, people overwhelmingly use Microsoft Office. Yet content and collaboration (C&C) pros continue to ask Forrester questions about office alternatives. So we recently surveyed 150 IT...
Embrace IT Process Automation Technology As Your Foundation To Industrial IT
The tasks of the IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professional have become increasingly complex and susceptible to human error. This is a direct consequence of the sheer volume and diversity of...