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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.
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Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
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Spending On Enterprise Carbon And Energy Management Solutions Will Approach $1 Billion By 2013
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During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...
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This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data was gathered from over 470 interviews with CIOs, IT managers, and top...
This document provides a comprehensive background of ASEAN countries' (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) data center market dynamics from the end...
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We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years
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Solutions To Support Key Customer-Facing Business Processes
Forrester reviewed 24 CRM suite solutions to understand their strengths and weaknesses to support eight key cross-functional processes in the utilities and telecommunications industries: 1) customer...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in South Africa for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and...
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Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud
Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...
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