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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.
Landscape: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes the software pricing and licensing landscape and explains why it makes it so important for sourcing and vendor management executives to implement Forrester's strategic software...
Repackaging And The Move From Per-Processor To Per-Core Licensing Will Affect The Way Your Organization Uses SQL Server
Microsoft's recent announcements will affect the way your organization licenses its SQL Server product and what you have to pay to use it. To prepare for these changes, sourcing and vendor management...
Use Experts' Tools, Processes, And People To Replace Failing SAM
If you've recently had a bad software audit experience, are worried about license compliance, or want to cut wasteful software expenditure, you may need to replace traditional, but obsolete, software...

Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes Forrester's vision of strategic software sourcing for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives. It is more difficult than ever for software sourcing professionals to meet...
Executive Overview: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report outlines how sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives can implement Forrester's strategic software sourcing model. Our research has shown us that transactional procurement is...

'Ariba, An SAP Company' Faces Many Challenges But Will Do Better Than SAP's Previous ePurchasing Acquisition
SAP's proposed $4.3 billion acquisition of Ariba has shaken the ePurchasing market. Customers of both companies want to know if their products face an uncertain future, since it's unlikely that SAP...

Metrics: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes the metrics that form part of Forrester's solution for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives who are moving to strategic software sourcing. Too many sourcing...