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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.
The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...
This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...
The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...


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This document provides an overview of cloud computing in India for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
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...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012
The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms
Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at four large PC laptop manufacturers: Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba. The results: Apple came out ahead, but the...
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...
DLR IT Refines Its Service Management Framework
IT plays a critical role in the development programs of DLR (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft-und Raumfahrt), the German aerospace center. DLR relies heavily on its IT organization to provide its...
Canada Is Like The US In Growth, But Different In Mix Of Purchases
Canada is like the US, only different. This bit of doggerel applies as much to the Canadian information and communications technology (ICT) market as it does to Canada's economy or culture. Because...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Israel for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges, market awareness and...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Australia and New Zealand for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges,...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) for vendor strategists. The report will allow vendor strategists to understand cloud-related market trends...
Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012
The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...
How A Manufacturer Defined Its UC Strategy With A Business And End User Focus
Companies with widely distributed international operations often struggle to create a road map for a best practice unified communications (UC) strategy. This report summarizes some of the major...
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...
Spending On Enterprise Carbon And Energy Management Solutions Will Approach $1 Billion By 2013
A new market of dedicated solutions that allow companies to manage their sustainability strategy is ripe to be tackled by software vendors and service providers. Forrester segments this emerging...

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...
This report provides an overview of the virtualization adoption trends in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data reflects over 450 interviews with CIOs, IT managers,...