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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.
The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
The Payment Methods That Appeal Most And Least To Leisure Travel Bookers
Since 2007, US travelers' usage and interest in alternative payment methods (APMs) for online travel purchases has been slowly, but steadily, increasing. Fifteen percent of US online leisure travel...

An In-Depth Look At Travel Social Fans, The Travelers Who Friend, Follow, Or Fan Travel Companies And Destinations On Social Media Sites
Travelers view social media as more than a way to stay in touch with people they know. Forrester data reveals that two in five US online leisure travelers have friended, followed, or become a fan of...
Forty-four million US online leisure travelers do not see a role for technology in their lives. These travel technology pessimists use technology, including the Web, because they have to, not...
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) revamped its email program during a customer relationship management (CRM) system upgrade. It unified its customer data into one database, consolidated email...
Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook
Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...
Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

Forrester estimates that, in 2011, hotels will produce $27 billion in online sales from US leisure and unmanaged business travelers. Not bad, but how much better could that be? To help travel firms...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

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,...
A Technographics® Global Overview: Online Retail 2009
The Internet has evolved into an important retail channel, with millions of online consumers across the globe turning to it to make their purchases. As with many other online activities, Asian...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August 2011 of 37,350 US and Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 37,350), there is...
Best Practices From 14 Web Site Brand Reviews Across Three Industries
In 2010, Forrester reviewed the Web site brand experience of sites in industries as diverse as automotive, hotels, and skin care. An analysis of the results across industries surfaced common...
We spoke with John Peebles, vice president of online marketing at Avis Budget Group, about a site redesign project he and his team undertook to improve the search engine optimization (SEO) results...
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...
Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Sales through online retail channels continue to grow, up almost $21 billion from last year alone. In order to fuel this projected growth, it is important to recognize where these growth...
Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...