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Suresh serves Customer Intelligence Professionals. His research agenda focuses on enterprise marketing technologies, database marketing strategies, customer analytics, and technologies that make customer insight operational. Suresh helps marketing clients navigate the ever-changing marketing technology landscape and develop data-driven marketing strategies.
In the past, Suresh has written about contact optimization, inbound marketing, marketing optimization, and the changing enterprise marketing software landscape.
Prior to joining Forrester in 2006, Suresh spent seven years as a consultant with SPSS. At SPSS, he focused on enabling marketing technologies at client companies. Suresh has successfully led the implementation of web analytics, data mining, real-time marketing, campaign optimization, and enterprise predictive applications in financial services, travel, and pharmaceutical verticals. Prior to SPSS, Suresh worked at NetGenesis, a leading web analytics provider, where he delivered web analytics and measurement services to clients.
Suresh has an M.B.A. from Greenwich College, The University of Hull in the UK, and an M.S. in computer information systems from Bentley College.

Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...
Maximize Display Effectiveness By Optimizing Your Approach
New upstarts like Dotomi and FetchBack have recently invigorated interest in the value of remarketing, but it's a tried-and-true display tactic that's been around for years. Marketers can...

Although social media gives interactive marketers the opportunity to gather more data than ever about customers, few marketers use this data to improve the performance of their email marketing...
As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

Integrating Customer Data Is Vital, But It's Not The End Goal
We recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals about their use of analytical applications and priorities. Users are investing in solutions that transform insight into action, but a...
Processes: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Loyalty programs promise to increase retention and satisfaction, but they often fall short of delivering results because they lack an innovative strategy to set them apart from the competition. This...

This report provides a case study supporting Forrester's best practices for customer intelligence professionals working to drive customer loyalty. Forrester identifies four crucial best practices for...
In our recent study of database marketing service providers (MSPs), we found that MSPs exist in a diverse vendor ecosystem but enjoy significant customer loyalty. While most firms prioritize deep...
Road Map: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media and...
US health insurance companies are in the midst of a systemwide transition to meet the requirements of congressionally mandated healthcare reform awaiting them in 2014. While insurers have made great...
Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations
The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...
With the increase in high-profile data breaches and the recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlements that hold Facebook, Google, and Twitter accountable to strict privacy audit guidelines,...

Customer Intelligence Professionals Need Mobile Analytic Tactics
Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...
Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...
We believe we can increase sales with our call centers in our direct marketing organization if we can figure out how to transform our phone interactions into selling activities instead of...
Use Technology To Move From Experimentation To Driving Results
In 2012, CMOs will need to embrace technology to help them handle big issues like: 1) addressing the maturation of social media from cool tool to critical connector with customers; 2) determining how...
