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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.
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,...


Personal Identity Management
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals face increasing pressure to give consumers greater control over the data that organizations collect about them. Forrester has published a report predicting...
How To Protect Your Email Data
In facing security woes such as the Epsilon breach, email marketing professionals have received a wake-up call: Security failures can cost a lot — not just a lot of money but also goodwill with...
Mobile Transforms How Companies Interact With Customers
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...

Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services
CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

In addition to the variety of media options that the digital age has brought forth, TV is the next medium to get a digital makeover. New access points to the living-room screen and the invasion of...
Preparing For A World Of Consumer-Managed Data
Consumers are leaving an exponentially growing digital footprint across channels and media, and they are awakening to the fact that marketers use this data for financial gain. This, combined with...
Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers
In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...
Display media, email, and search are still the most well-adopted interactive tactics. But this year's interactive marketing channel adoption study finds interactive marketers more willing than last...
Build Trust And Advocacy With Targeted Content And Engagement Strategies
It was easy to grow a brand's social media marketing program over the past few years; a flood of new consumers entering social networks and other social venues provided a burgeoning audience. But as...
Move From On/Off Compliance Approaches To Custom Privacy Management
Governments are placing pressure on interactive marketers, in most cases by mandating clear rules around how customer data is obtained, used, and stored for marketing. While interactive marketers...
Data security isn't necessarily a sexy topic, but the impact of a recent data breach raised awareness within the email marketing industry, among consumers and Congress. To maintain consumer trust and...
Digital Publishers Must Adapt To New Digital Media Economics
The online media buying revolution is in full swing — audience targeting, real-time bidding, and attribution are changing the way interactive marketers buy — putting digital publishers at...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...