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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.
Small and medium-size business (SMB) marketers, much like their enterprise counterparts, find that challenges — like limited budgets, resources, and customer insight — interfere with...
While eCommerce continues to grow and take market share from the physical retail channel, retailers also look to experiment with new approaches to their web businesses such as social commerce and...

Mobile Transforms How Companies Interact With Customers
Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) trialed mobile search marketing after noticing an increase in quote requests from mobile visitors. What can you learn from its early initiative in this space?...
Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

As CIOs continue to evaluate business technology and plan for future investments, it is essential to accept the fact that the golden age of the Internet is ending. In the past decade, nearly all...
Use Scale And Audience Trust To Prioritize Interactive Marketing Channels
Building an effective brand ecosystem can be hard: Interactive marketers have dozens of social, mobile, and paid media channels to choose from and often limited resources to work with. To make the...
Mobile Channels Offer Rich Opportunities For Rewards And Engagement
Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide better...

Last year, B2B CMOs were challenged with increasing marketing's impact on revenue, adapting to rapidly changing buyer behaviors, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. In 2012, they will go...

The explosive growth of smartphones has created an opportunity for mobile display that marketers are beginning to realize. But confusion in the vendor landscape has led marketers to go straight to...
More people own smartphones than ever before and they’re using them more often too. This makes a mobile marketing strategy crucial for any interactive marketer. Yet today we find that although...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...
Four Technologies For Engaging Customers With Content
CMOs need to keep an eye on emerging technologies that have the potential to drive improvements in customer engagement. This second in a series of reports on emerging technologies explores tools and...
Location-Based Social Networking, Though Stagnant Now, Is Poised To Grow
Geosocial applications — also known as location-based social networks — hold potential for interactive marketers: They can help increase in-store visits, your brand's visibility, and...
With mobile banking gradually starting to displace online banking for the most frequent interactions like balance checks and simple transfers, the time is right for eBusiness executives to start...
Making Marketing Content Relevant To Where People Are
As marketers step up their mobile marketing efforts, Forrester clients are asking more and more questions about it, and one of the most important facets of the opportunity is location-based...

Why Marketers Must Use A Skillful Approach To Reach Millennials Effectively
As Millennials continue to flow into the workforce, marketers will naturally focus more of their efforts on this emerging adult generation with increasing purchasing power. However, Millennials are...
The increasing accessibility of the mobile Web and mobile apps makes connecting with traditional social networks like Facebook and Twitter more convenient than ever. Due to these technology and...
After several years of relative obscurity and false starts, the online marketing suite is poised to gain steam as marketers focus on resolving multichannel complexity and as vendors seek out new...
Organization: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile strategy has evolved since 2010. Then, a mobile strategy equated to a mobile services road map and technology platform choices. An individual or small team could both create a strategy and...
Landscape: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers describes the mobile marketing landscape. Interactive marketers are finally beginning to take mobile seriously — and discovering how different and more...