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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  • Application Development
  • Forrsights For Business Technology
  • Past 18 months
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Sizing The Cloud Markets In Asia Pacific

    Understanding Cloud Growth Dynamics Across The Region

    Exploiting cloud computing growth opportunities in Asia Pacific requires insights into future cloud market size, growth dynamics, adoption trends, and demand drivers, all of which vary widely across...

    • Downloads: 1217
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

    From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes

    Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

    • Downloads: 779
    • Comments: 3
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  • For Security & Risk Professionals

    Report:Build A Corporate App Store Into Your Corporate Mobility Strategy

    Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store

    Today, many employees use their personally owned smartphones and tablets for work to access a variety of mobile applications. Some companies are also proactively deploying mobile applications to...

    • Downloads: 308
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  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    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...

    • Downloads: 236
    • Comments: 2
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Mobile's Ascendance Will Accelerate IT Services Restructuring

    The IT Services Opportunity In Systems Of Engagement

    Mobile is more than just a pretty face. New platforms will usher in a whole new class of systems focused on engaging customers, employees, and business partners. The move to systems of engagement and...

    • Downloads: 282
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Trends In ETL Adoption

    This data chart examines ETL adoption trends based on a survey of 173 professionals who have purchased ETL software at their organizations.

    • Downloads: 29
  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Build A Corporate App Store Into Your Workforce Computing Strategy

    I&O Should Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store

    Today, employees are using personally owned smartphones and tablets at work, and firms are leveraging an array of mobile applications to interact with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers....

    • Downloads: 346
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

    CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

    As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

    • Downloads: 200
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:PaaS Market Dynamics in China, 2012 To 2017

    Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is garnering attention and focus from multiple corners of the Chinese market as traditional IT vendors, independent software vendors (ISVs), telcos, and Internet...

    • Downloads: 91
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?

    • Downloads: 31
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

    Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

    • Downloads: 242
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  • For Sales Enablement Professionals

    Report:Opportunities In The SMB Cloud Services Market

    SMBs' strong adoption of cloud computing is well known. What is less well understood is how SMBs are adopting cloud for various technology categories relative to one another.

    • Downloads: 196
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

    Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism

    What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

    • Downloads: 308
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks

    The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework

    One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

    • Downloads: 679
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Elevate The ALM Discussion To The Business Plane

    Making A Compelling Argument For ALM Investment

    Implementing a more effective application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy will depend on making a compelling business case for investing in changes. Buying new ALM tools, hiring new staff, and...

    • Downloads: 146
  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Telcos Dive Headlong Into Asia's Cloud

    Differentiation And Precise Market Segmentation Will Determine Success

    As the Asia Pacific cloud market develops, it is becoming extremely crowded with competitors looking to position — or reposition — for future success. Many traditional telecommunications...

    • Downloads: 416
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Multiple PaaS Flavors Hit The Enterprise

    Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market

    Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...

    • Downloads: 677
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Navigate The Future Of CRM In 2013

    Vision: The CRM Playbook

    The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as...

    • Downloads: 1982
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Mobile Feast Or Beggar's Banquet?

    Landscape: The Mobile App Development Playbook

    Enterprises are facing challenges with mobile enablement that are similar in many ways to technology challenges we've seen in the past — yet these challenges are coming with ferocity unlike...

    • Downloads: 398
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Next-Generation Portfolio Management: Strategic, Lean, And Delivery-Enabled

    Vision: The Portfolio Management And PMO Playbook

    Before IT can transition to business technology (BT) and become an effective partner with the business, the two groups of leaders must completely rethink the way they plan and execute — and...

    • Downloads: 168
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    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...

    • Downloads: 702
    • Comments: 1
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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

    Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

    The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

    • Downloads: 887
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  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:The State Of Application Rationalization

    Landscape: The Application Rationalization Playbook

    Many enterprise architects (EAs) have been rationalizing application and technology portfolios for some time, and the experience shows. It is a stable, relatively successful initiative that engages...

    • Downloads: 308
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  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Mobility Adoption Is Poised For Strong Growth In India

    An Improving Mobility Infrastructure And Ecosystem, Combined With Business And Workforce Demand, Is Fueling Growth

    The enterprise mobility market presents a huge opportunity for tech vendors in India, especially for telcos and systems integrators (SIs). Mobility is among the top priorities for business...

    • Downloads: 356
    • Comments: 2
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Increase Agile Efficacy To Improve Customer Value

    Future Look: The Agile And Lean Playbook

    This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs discover Agile and...

    • Downloads: 1177
 
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