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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 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...

Local Vendors Continue To Innovate
Wake up, marketing automation vendors: The European market is getting hot! Forrester's Q4 2012 US And Europe B2B Marketing Tactics And Benchmarks Online Survey shows us that the rate of investment is...


How M&A Activity Brings Pain And Opportunity To CI Professionals
In recent months, Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals witnessed a spate of acquisitions that have forever altered the landscape of marketing technology suites and analysis tools. Such...
Tech Marketers Have A New Buyer And Channel To Consider
Businesses engaged in digital marketing will seek a new generation of service provider — one that combines technology competence with marketing strategy and digital creativity. These providers...
Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...
How CXM Will Help eBusiness Leaders Drive Interactions Across Touchpoints
A new type of solution is emerging on the commerce technology landscape that promises to help eBusiness leaders drive customer targeting, content relevancy, and personalization on their sites and...
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...

With Proliferating Tactics And Constrained Budgets, Targeting And Focus Are A Mandate
Tech marketers typically use last year's plan as a starting point for next year's marketing planning process, making changes to accommodate new goals and current-year budget realities. As a result,...

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...

The Emergence Of Customer Experience Management Solutions
Business process pros can play a pivotal role in helping their organizations define a multichannel customer experience strategy, align processes, and select the right technologies to deliver results....
Spending Optimism Must Be Balanced With Performance Improvement
Tech marketers continue to place demand management as their primary objective with lead origination high on their spending plans for 2011. Yet they face a perfect storm as recessionary business...
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...
A Guide To Search Marketing Technology And Services Providers
Companies have a wide array of partners to choose from when managing their search marketing programs. This report provides an overview of many of the vendors currently serving this space, including...
Strategic Plan: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report helps interactive marketers craft a strategic plan for their mobile marketing. Mobile is hot. As with most hot topics in technology, marketers may be tempted to adopt strategies that are...
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...

CI Professionals Are Fighting Wars On Multiple Fronts In Order To Evolve
As Customer Intelligence (CI) matures, CI professionals must adapt how they capture, integrate and manage, analyze, and apply knowledge about their customers. As we look ahead to 2011, we expect CI...
Assess Your Current State To Inform The Online Marketing Suite Road Map
The online marketing suite is a well-regarded framework for coordinating interactive marketing, but it consistently proves difficult to implement. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals struggle to...
Publishers Must Expand Ad Products To Address Advertiser DMP Adoption
Advertisers are adopting data management platforms (DMPs) and planning for more sophisticated audience targeting tactics, including the use of first-party advertiser data. These tactics will put...
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...
This model allows you to assess your IT/marketing partnership readiness along the three critical dimensions of people, process, and technology. Use this model to identify strengths and weaknesses of...
