Biswajeet Mahapatra

In a climate of economic and political uncertainty, tech budgets are under pressure. According to Forrester’s Industry- And Customer-Supporting Software Survey, 2025, 23% of organizations cite budget as their number one software challenge.

NASSCOM recently hosted its flagship event, the Technology Leadership Forum (NTLF) 2025, with noticeably stronger attendance than in recent years. Returning to its familiar venue — the Grand Hyatt Mumbai — proved valuable. The compact setting was ideal for high-impact interactions, enabling us to engage in over 50 client meetings across a wide range of […]

2024 has been a year of profound transformation. Major elections, political unrest, wars, civil uprisings, and ongoing supply chain disruptions have created global turbulence. Despite these challenges, a silent technological revolution is driving fundamental shifts in human behavior, community interactions, societal structures, and government services. This revolution carries the potential to redefine economies and reshape […]

According to Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey, 77% of US technology decision-makers report moderate to extensive levels of technology sprawl. Find out what the impacts of tech sprawl can be and how to get it under control in this preview of a new report.

The longer tech debt remains unresolved, the more resources are required to fix it. Learn how it can impact the delivery of new projects and weaken operational resilience in this preview of a new report.

Akamai’s latest cloud offerings are designed to be platform-agnostic, cost-efficient, low-latency, and user-friendly. But to truly meet these demands, Akamai needs to build partnerships with firms that complement its tech. Find out why.

In 2024, generative AI will find its way into many initiatives across companies in India. Read our top five India technology predictions for 2024 here.

Competition, economic conditions, and globalization are pushing companies to investigate ways and means to maximize their revenue and profitability. They are trying to achieve these objectives by reducing costs and increasing profits through revenue growth. Revenue growth is complex, as companies need to understand and balance multiple parameters to make it work. These parameters include […]

Current economic conditions are forcing many IT leaders to take stock of their existing inventory of software and find ways to optimize its usage. Optimization of software assets may be part of larger technical debt reduction or application rationalization programs, which help reduce costs, drive utilization of resources, and the freeing up of investments for […]

The Indian Parliament passed the much-awaited Digital Personal Data Protection, or DPDP, bill on August 10, 2023. This comes six years after the Supreme Court of India declared the right to privacy as a fundamental right. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) introduced the first draft of the bill in 2022 but later […]

Government, healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing and financial services will see an explosion in cloud adoption in India. We expect the Indian cloud market to see unprecedented growth of 24% in the coming year. Indian enterprises adopting public cloud have spent an average of ₹3.7 billion on it in the past 12 months. […]

In India, competitive pressures and customer expectations are driving firms to provide personalized information, products, and services to customers and employees. Improving employee and user experiences are among the top software initiatives of Indian companies for the next 12 months. Insights-driven companies stand a better chance to compete. Why? Because they have a better understanding […]

A thriving data center and cloud services market in India is spoiling CIOs with choices. Along with the established providers, there is a huge influx of local vendors. AI-enabled solutions, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and identity as a service are a few of the many recent offerings by these vendors. And […]

All major economies have been under distress due to the Ukraine war, stress in supply chains, post-COVID pressures, and banking crises in the US and Europe. Notwithstanding these challenges, the Indian economy will grow between 6.5–7.0% in the next 12 months. This means that India will retain its tag of the fastest-growing large economy in […]

Indian enterprises have had software as a service (SaaS) on their radar for the last seven-plus years, if not more. SaaS uptake in India was slow, and cost used to be the only major driver toward SaaS adoption. Indian enterprises were in dilemma when major software vendors shelved their on-premises solutions in favor of SaaS-only […]

Only 7% of Indian firms qualify as future fit. Learn five critical aspects Indian CIOs should review to ensure a successful digital transformation.

Forrester is a trusted go-to partner for many CIOs across the globe. CIOs have been working with Forrester on various initiatives to build a customer-obsessed organization of the future. I am excited and thrilled to be joining Forrester as a CIO analyst to carry forward this great legacy. Never before have CIOs dealt with both […]