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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.
Building An EA Program For "Dummies"
As businesses begin to look past the economic downturn, they are executing strategies that require a changed IT mission and plan. This in turn is changing the needs and expectations the EA function...
Business Services Unify Portfolios And Help Firms Manage Business Change
Business capability maps are an excellent conceptual tool for planning and assessment. But your business runs on the physical implementation of people, process, information, and technology, and while...

Last week I finally published the third document in the collection "EA Involvement In IT Governance": "Integrate EA With ITIL Service Portfolio Management." It follows the two previous documents...
Landscape: The EA Method Playbook
Digital is increasingly part of products and services offerings — provoking disruption to the old ways of doing things. Companies are facing uncertain market changes and economic conditions,...
What To Expect When Evaluating Offerings
Forrester's recent evaluation of the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market uncovered a wide variety of current vendor capabilities and future visions of the EAMS market. While each...
Business pressures have forced IT management to begin applying formal management disciplines to the delivery of IT services. In the past decade we have seen the rise of portfolio and project...
As Forrester’s EA tools analyst specialist, I am regularly receiving inquiries from EA teams that are encountering trouble choosing the "single repository of truth" for the entire enterprise....
The Foundation For Data Governance, Tooling, And More
Metadata management is the foundation for data governance, management, and use. But despite this, firms have a spotty record of collecting, harmonizing, and managing the metadata inherent in their...
An enterprise architecture (EA) tool can be a significant investment because of both the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is...

Most enterprise architects (EAs) instinctually recognize the value that clean and trustworthy metadata can provide in terms of delivering IT efficiency, business agility, and improved information...
IT has too many separate portfolios to manage, and that hinders its ability to help business change. We have project portfolios, application portfolios, technology portfolios, and IT service...
Agree On Agility Objectives With Business Units
Since Forrester published the original version of this report in 2007, few firms have adopted a strict definition of agility. Given the recent uncertainty, CEOs are talking even more about agility,...
An EA tool can be a significant investment both because of the cost of the purchase or subscription and the cost of implementation. The best approach to demonstrate value is to directly serve the...
We are putting together an initial concept request for implementing an EA management software suite. We would like to know a "rough order of magnitude" regarding costs to implement such a solution,...
EA teams like to know how mature their EA practice is. There are a lot of EA maturity models out there. You will find some of these assessments and maturity models discussed in a 2009...
There are interesting debates all around the globe about whether there is the need for a next gen EA framework. James Lapalme recently published an excellent article: Three Schools of...
Performance Management: The EA Method Playbook
A good enterprise architecture (EA) methodology focuses on business outcomes. Forrester's EA method addresses both business outcomes and business agility, starting with how the business plans to how...

Processes: The Data Management Playbook
Forrester clients describe their data governance work as long on effort, but limited in success. Clients describe an inability to sustain data governance beyond a project, feel it is too...

Mega International, Troux Technologies, Software AG, And Alfabet Lead This Upcoming Category
Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet...
A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award
Forrester teamed up with InfoWorld to identify five leading EA organizations using practices that yield measurable business value. In large organizations such as Barclays Bank, which spans 50...
Governance: The EA Method Playbook
In an era of rapid business change, IT governance is often seen as a barrier. Governance too frequently means delay, overhead, and inflexible standards and strategies leading to missed opportunities...

A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award
EA organizations often toil out of the limelight, working with their firms to improve business-IT alignment, rationalize the application portfolio, and guide technology use. Forrester teamed up with...