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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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Forrsights For Business Technology
Advanced Analytics And Cloud Drive Future Growth
2011 and beyond will be the era of business intelligence (BI) innovation and growth. No other software segment enjoys the same positive market dynamics of advancing technologies, business innovation,...
Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing
Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...
Cloud Computing Shifts From Cost To Innovation
Cloud computing continues to grow at a tremendous speed. But as the market and the understanding of cloud computing grows, the drivers and deployment scenarios that framed the initial cloud agenda...

There Are Huge Opportunities For Vendor Strategists — If You Know The Landscape
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) today represents one of the most dynamic growth segments of the global tech sector. The markets across Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) in this context are exposing...
New Flexible Business Models Cannibalize Traditional Software Markets
Software is the biggest and fastest growing of all tech industry segments. However, its growth is fueled by disruption — new technologies and changing market demand are cannibalizing...
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Forrsights For Business Technology
This document provides an analysis of key drivers and trends for software-as-a-service (SaaS) across Western Europe. By extracting and analyzing an extensive data set of three recent Forrester...

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SAP Has Managed A Turnaround After Léo Apotheker’s Departure In February 2010, after Léo Apotheker resigned as CEO of SAP, I wrote a blog post with 10 predictions for the...
Technology innovation and business disruption are changing the software market today. Cloud computing is blurring the line between applications and services, and smart solutions are combining...
Yesterday SAP announced its Q4 and full year 2010 revenue results. It's nice to see that SAP has managed the turnaround to leave the recession behind and pick up growth again. The company...
Shifting Buying Preferences Lead To New Software Priorities
As the global information and communications technology market recovers from recession, the software market — the largest IT subsegment — is fueling the growth. More importantly, for the...
Last week, I attended the ONS (Offshore North Sea) 2010 conference, one of the world’s largest energy conferences, with more than 49,000 participants, in Stavanger, Norway. The conference theme...
Two months ago, we announced our upcoming Forrester Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010. Now the data is back from more than 2,400 respondents in North America and Europe and provides us with deep...
Unveiling The Software Strategies Of Top-Performing Companies
During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 2,438 software decision-makers across Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US to determine their spending priorities around software. To...
Cloud computing continues to be hyped. By now, almost every ICT hardware, software, and services company has some form of cloud strategy — even if it’s just a cloud label on a traditional...