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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.
Organization: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the organizational component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business application strategy. Every firm faces a...

A growing number of organizations delivering project-based services to customers seek business apps that more fully reflect that project focus and apply it to business-processes-powering project...
At its recent Sapphire Now user conference, SAP confidently extolled the virtues of in-memory computing, mobility, and on-demand applications as key innovation pillars, with social collaboration as...

Hi, and thanks for stopping by. I joined Forrester just over a month ago and I plan to post here regularly with some thoughts on the ERP apps arena. I’m hoping this blog will serve as a place...
Slow Adoption Of Newer Product Means Changes Likely In Oracle's Strategy
This report, originally written for CIOs, includes content relevant to application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. With Oracle's strong footprint in the enterprise business apps...

Business process professionals are starting to see more choices in how they and their organizations can investigate and buy enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps, add-ons, and complementary...
The Midmarket SaaS ERP App Suite Is Well Positioned For A Variety Of Use Cases
It's been four years since SAP first unveiled Business ByDesign (ByD), its software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite aimed at medium-size companies. Forrester...

It's Early Days For Adoption, But Use Cases Are Starting To Take Shape
Application development and delivery professionals will benefit from new technologies that will both help them engage at a deeper level with their peers as well as enable them to access a wider set...
Business Process Pros Now Have An Additional BPM Tool At Their Disposal
Business process professionals often struggle with how to bridge the gap between the functionality of the inflexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications they're using to run their...
Everywhere you turn in ERP-land these days, up pops another app marketplace. The roster of ERP players large and small with online showcases includes Lawson, Microsoft, NetSuite, Openbravo, SAP (with...
Now is the perfect time for business process professionals to revisit their current enterprise resource planning (ERP) application commitments and future ERP plans. As the global economy gradually...

I had the pleasure earlier this week of attending Lawson Software’s conference and user exchange, aka CUE, in Boston. The midmarket ERP apps vendor had the singular misfortune to throw its...
Microsoft Dynamics AX Leads Microsoft's App Innovation Agenda
The 2011 Convergence event demonstrated that Microsoft continues to advance its ERP products and offer additional deployment options — specifically, software-as-a-service (SaaS). The event...

Users Are Set To Benefit As Business Process Flexibility Improves In Applications
Today's ERP applications are still too complex and inflexible. Organizations continue to be plagued with customization and upgrade headaches as a direct result of the software's rigidity and poor...
It’s the time of year when business apps observers adopt a Janus stance toward market trends. Like the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions, analysts look back at the recent past...
From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps power companywide financial, human resources, and manufacturing business processes at medium-size and enterprise companies. Embarking on a new ERP...
In the Business Apps Casino, change is afoot. For a long time, one table – software-as-a-service ERP – attracted a limited number of players and fans. However, over the past 12 months, an...
Oracle Customers Face A Choice: Stay With Apps They Have And Miss Out On Innovation Or Make The Painful Switch To Fusion
Oracle faces a strategic dilemma, and how it responds to this dilemma will present the CIOs at its clients with some tough choices. Oracle Fusion Applications — Oracle's new generation of...

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2010; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe,...
Growing up in the UK, one of the TV shows I remember watching featured Australian artist and musician Rolf Harris. As each show drew to a close, Rolf would quickly set to work filling a large...
Business Case: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the business case component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. If you're debating...

Processes: The Business Applications Playbook
Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals have a poor reputation among their line-of-business colleagues of being able to deliver timely, high-impact solutions. This research shows...
Three key forces are reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market: the growing demands of global businesses; the increasing need for industry-specific functionality; and the expanding use...
