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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.
Landscape: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
In order to establish the current state of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) practices among tech marketers, we recently analyzed 80 client inquiries on the topic that tech marketing professionals...

The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

Benchmarks: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the...


Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Once relegated to the province of direct mail teams and analysts, customer data and marketing technology are now essential to every marketing function, from strategy to creative development to...

Performance Management: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Every digital marketer knows that measurement is important, but levels of sophistication run the gamut from basic click-based measurement of one or two channels to seamless cross-channel measurement...

Technology plays an integral role in managing and executing a loyalty program. But buyers face an array of technology solutions that support their loyalty needs in different ways. This report is...
Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook
This report outlines how interactive marketers can choose the right tools and partners for their social marketing programs. As an interactive marketer, you need to use new social technologies —...

Tools And Technology: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The lead-to-revenue management (L2RM) process calibrates marketing and sales activities around a common success factor — revenue. An optimized process yields bigger pipelines, shorter sales...

Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...
Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing
Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

Strategic Plan: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
Moving to greater digital media buying maturity requires a plan that improves your practice across all four foundational pillars of maturity over the long term: organization, planning and execution,...

Assessment: The CRM Playbook
This report describes the best practices assessment that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer relationship...

Vision: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook
The need to calibrate marketing spend to revenue generation was the seminal driver of lead-to-revenue management (L2RM). But savvy B2B marketing leaders are going beyond revenue performance...

Forrester’s best practices framework for CRM defines the critical capabilities necessary for building high-quality customer relationships. The framework distills findings from our interviews...
New Technologies Push The Boundaries Of Customer Engagement
CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to improve customer engagement levels. This third report in our series on emerging technologies explores tools and...

Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...
Rio SEO Leads, With BrightEdge Following As A Strong Performer
Forrester's 21-criteria evaluation of SEO platforms evaluates the four largest providers of tools for organic search auditing, ranking support, measurement, and project management: BrightEdge,...

Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...
Tools And Technology: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
The linchpins of every effective media buyer's practice are the partner and vendor relationships that allow the buyer to create truly valuable customer experiences. The technology ecosystem for...
Tools And Technology: The B2B Online Community Playbook
Many IT managers tell us that marketers seem quick to jump to technology selection without first articulating the business reason for or the organizational impact of those choices. On the other hand,...