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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.
How The Top 10 Vendors Stack Up For Next-Generation BPM Suites
In Forrester's 59-criteria evaluation of business process management (BPM) suite vendors, we identified the 10 most significant software providers in the category — Appian, Bizagi, Cordys,...

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...
Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
If you think capture and imaging is old technology, you're correct; it has been around for more than twenty years. But there are still a lot of paper-based processes out there, and Forrester clients...
Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
While many offices look modern, unplanned and unmanaged use of printers, fax machines, copiers, and scanners leads to significant waste. Managed print services (MPS) are designed to help a business...

The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
There is a plethora of vendors in the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market that, like many EA practices themselves, excel at only a portion of a comprehensive EA practice. It is not...

EMC, IBM, OpenText, And Oracle Lead, With Microsoft Close Behind
In Forrester's 66-criteria evaluation of enterprise content management (ECM) vendors, we found that EMC, IBM, OpenText, and Oracle lead the pack because of their abilities to address all four...

Pegasystems, Appian, IBM, and Software AG Lead The Pack
Forrester evaluated 11 leading business process management (BPM) suite vendors against 148 criteria reflecting the requirements of business process professionals running large-scale BPM programs. We...
Stevens Institute of Technology, BPMInstitute.org, and BPTrends Associates Lead, Queensland University of Technology Close Behind
Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. And when business process professionals turn to the...
