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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.
A Panel Discussion At The 2010 Customer Experience Forum
Highlights of the Trends In Customer Experience panel at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2010 included a debate about the need for a chief customer officer (CCO), a prediction that "Web sites...
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
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...

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing end user adoption trends in Japan for vendor strategists. The report is based on findings from a cloud computing survey targeting Japanese...
SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013
For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...
Forrester has partnered with Canada Post and Shop.ca to evaluate the changing trends in online retail in Canada. On paper, the Canadian online retail market has been going through a renaissance,...
A Framework For Managing Innovation Opportunities In eBusiness
From the sudden rise of Groupon to Google's opportunity to turn every Android phone into a wallet, rapid innovation is turning eBusiness on its head. When facing waves of disruption, how can...
How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market
The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...
In 2009, Maersk Line asked Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen, vice president of customer service, to take on the role of improving customer experience enterprisewide. Faced with increasing competition and...
Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook
How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in China for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
The cloud storage services market in China is in the early adopter stage and will undergo fast growth over the next five years, especially in the second half of that period. This report provides...
How US Online Retailers Can Extend Their Offerings To Consumers Abroad
Given that online retail growth rates remain higher outside the United States than within, eBusiness executives are increasingly looking to tap into online buyers in other markets. The lowest-cost...
How Online Retail In China Is Evolving Differently From Other Major Markets
China's eCommerce market is both one of the largest and one of the fastest growing in the world. While Forrester estimates the traditional B2C online retail markets to be larger in the US and Japan...
eCommerce Tops $200 Billion In 2011
eCommerce sales continue to grow rapidly, having topped $200 billion in 2011. Forrester expects that online sales will grow from 7% of overall retail sales to close to 9% by 2016. Key drivers of this...

European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality
European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...