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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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Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases
Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...
Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros
Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Uganda, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT...

This document offers a brief overview of enterprise networking in Asia for vendor strategists. Market outlooks are provided on the overall Asia Pacific market, vertical industries, and the countries...
We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years
US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...
Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years
This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...
Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

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...
This document identifies the infrastructure (server, client, storage, OS) profile of end user organizations in Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. The report focuses on IT...
Tech vendors are likely underperforming in international markets because their central marketing teams do not successfully integrate inputs from their field marketing colleagues about local market...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the dynamics of the IT market in the UAE, the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides systematic analysis of the key...
A Snapshot Of Adoption From The InformationWeek 500
Smart Computing, the latest cycle of tech innovation and growth based on new technologies of awareness, analysis, and alternatives, began in 2008. Since then, a growing number of companies have...
This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Kenya, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT...
