Vikram Sehgal

VP, Research Director - Data serving Customer Insights PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

Vikram earned an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech and a B.Com from N.M College in Mumbai, India.

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    Report:Software Asset Inventory, H2 2012

    In July 2012, Forrester Research analyzed the software asset portfolios of 16 large global providers of IT services. During this process, Forrester received a total of 545 artifacts and...

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    Report:Critical Sourcing Decisions Depend On Your Application Portfolio Analysis

    In the realm of IT services sourcing, the strategic decisions and vendor selection process for your company's applications and infrastructures are perhaps the most important. Your service...

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    Client Inquiry:What Are The Licensing Options For Integration Products?

    One of our middleware suppliers has offered us a choice of licensing its product by "messages" or "business transactions" as opposed to the more traditional "per CPU" method. What are the pros and...

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      Report:Software Asset Inventory, H2 2012

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      Report:Navigating The Microsoft Services Landscape

      Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players

      Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...

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      Report:Application Portfolio Analysis Tool

      In IT services sourcing, the strategic decisions and vendor selection process for your company’s applications and infrastructures (A&I) are critical. Your service requirements and ability...

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      Report:ASEAN Datacenter Study: Cloud Computing

      This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the ASEAN Datacenter market dynamics based on 112 interviews with ASEAN CXOs and top IT executives of...

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      Report:India IT Services Report: 2010

      This document provides an early and accurate market size estimates for 2010 in India, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is...

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      Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 '13

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      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013

      Analysis Of 13 Global Leaders' Capabilities And How They Stack Up

      Enterprise mobility is booming; organizations must connect with employees, customers, and partners in new ways and across new devices and applications. But many organizations don't know how to move...

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      Report:How The Adoption Of Several Important Emerging Technologies Affects Sourcing

      Many sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals who Forrester speaks with know that they need to play a proactive role in sourcing emerging technologies but have difficulty identifying which...

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      Report:What Is Testing-As-A-Service Anyway?

      Testing-As-A-Service Doesn't Necessarily Mean The Cloud — At Least Not Yet

      Sourcing professionals are moving away from their historic emphasis on staff augmentation in testing engagements toward increasing focus on more predictable outcomes and consumption-based pricing....

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      Report:Five Reasons Why The Domestic Outsourcing Trend Continues To Accelerate

      The movement to domestic outsourcing models continues to accelerate for a number of reasons. First, clients, who today depend on software to differentiate and grow their businesses, require...

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      Report:APeJ IT Services Report: 2010

      This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...

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      Tool:Key Technologies Have Varying Levels Of Adoption Across Geographies

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      Report:AppLabs Finds A Home At CSC

      Addition Of Strong Testing Capability A Boon For CSC Clients

      After months of speculation about who would or could acquire independent testing vendor AppLabs, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has stepped up and made the company an offer it can't refuse....

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      Report:2011 ASEAN IT Services Report

      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...

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      Report:Asset-Based IT Services Shift Service Vendors' Operating Models

      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...

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