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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.
Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't keep up...

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...
Performance Management: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Social media — with its seemingly nebulous returns, such as "engagement" and "advocacy" — often baffles customer intelligence (CI) professionals trying to measure and optimize their...


What CI Professionals Need To Know When Evaluating Their Needs And Vendors
Disruption is coming — is your company ready? Organizations need to realize that their customers want things faster, better, cheaper, and with a higher degree of service, and technology makes...
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...

Consolidation And Growth Drive A Dynamic Software Marketplace
Marketing today is impossible without significant investments in technology. When Forrester first charted the landscape of marketing technologies in 2007, we found that marketers were investing in...

Customer Intelligence professionals know the power of deriving marketing insight from social media data. But knowing is only half the battle. Not all Customer Intelligence teams come equipped with...
Leverage Social Data To Elevate Customer Intelligence
Social media's prevalence across the Web gives consumers and brands a new way to connect online. But while most businesses know the importance of social media, most are missing opportunities by not...
Tools And Technology: The Social Intelligence Playbook
With the incessant growth of social networks, more and more businesses turn to listening platforms — technology and services vendors that help companies manage, learn from, and measure social...

Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

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...
During our recent customer engagement agency (CEA) Forrester Wave™, we surveyed more than 100 CEA clients to understand their choice of vendors and the quality of the relationships. We found...
An Empowered Report: How Data-Driven Strategies Strengthen Empowered Organizations
An empowered organization gives its employees the resources they need to build relationships with their constantly evolving customers. But many companies still struggle to adapt their 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...

Marketers Must Exchange Value For Customers' Social Data
Through social interactions on channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, consumers are creating a massive amount of data. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals want this data and are now...
Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

Direct Integration With Social Channels Creates The Richest Engagement And Data Opportunities
Across the globe, more and more consumers are interacting socially than ever before. When it comes to loyalty, social channels provide an opportunity for brands to engage with members beyond the...
Processes: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Social media provides customer intelligence (CI) professionals with a wealth of customer data. But every piece of valuable insight is surrounded by noise. Cutting through that noise and getting to...
Business Case: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Listening platforms are hot and marketers are keen to use consumer conversations to inform marketing and business strategy. But as more businesses adopt listening platforms, the question that comes...
Converseon, Nielsen, And Radian6 Lead A Fragmented Market
During the past year, listening platforms continued their evolution beyond basic brand monitoring tools into integral technologies that inform a variety of marketing and business functions like...

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...

Insights And Lessons Learned From Forrester's Social Media Behavioral Tracking Study
When it comes to gaining quantitative consumer intelligence, market insights professionals can use a wide array of methodologies — including behavioral. Many market insights professionals...

What CI Professionals Need To Know When Evaluating Their Needs And Vendors
As Customer Intelligence (CI) becomes the nerve center of the organization, the number of vendors touting CI services as part of their offerings is growing. Vendors, from database marketing service...
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...