[ 2 -3 min read ] Most sales organizations have a well defined sales cycle, from initial contact to the closing of a deal. However, if you’ve noticed your sales cycle getting longer and longer, it can be hard to understand what’s causing it. Are you not qualifying your leads well enough? Or are your […]

Company to accelerate its US market presence as spending on AI-powered sales solutions expected to grow 54% by 2022. Cien Inc., a leading provider of AI-powered sales productivity solutions, today announced the completion of a seed round totaling $3.5M, $1.2M million of which was provided by Global Venture Capital firm Elaia, with follow on from […]

Cien Featured on Emissary.io Cien was featured along with Salesforce and Conversica on Emissary, the world’s first sales intelligence network. Emissary mentions Cien’s Global Study on the Future of Sales. In this study, we found that 88% of sales professionals expect artificial intelligence (AI) to make their jobs easier in the next 10 years, not render […]

At Cien we speak to sales leaders every day, and most tell us how frustrated they are with the quality of their data in Salesforce. After all, decisions are only as good as the data on which they’re made. Sure, even when they think they do, no company I know has absolutely perfect CRM data. […]

The holy grail for a lot of sales and operations executives is to understand the semantic and contextual meaning of their CRM data. Cien’s Data Enhancement Services were recently featured in CRM Buyer. The service enhances and standardizes Salesforce data at a scale that was previously impossible. Cien’s Data Enhancement Services are for companies that aren’t ready […]

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how can sales and marketing teams benefit? Our CEO, Rob Käll sat down with Runaway BCN to discuss the concept of AI and where he believes it will make the greatest impact in the future. Rob explains how the use of machine learning and natural language processing create augmented intelligence […]

In B2B Sales, sales performance is fast becoming a key factor for success. While an increase in sales can be achieved at the expense of profitability, an increase in sales performance offers companies better capital efficiency, higher profitability and ultimately a sustainable competitive advantage. Historically, sales representatives were measured by the total volume of sales […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 14, 2017 Cien co-founder and business builder Margot Carter will present at EY’s annual Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, California on Friday, November 17, as part of a session entitled “What’s next for boards,” where she and other seasoned directors will cover the way corporate boards identify,  prioritize and address disruptive market forces. EY Strategic Growth Forum is […]

More than forecasting, automation, or performance, the big opportunity for AI in sales is in addressing productivity. In this session, learn how sales leaders can move beyond reliance on CRM data and KPI’s to measure sales progress. You’ll find out how other intangible factors that affect sales results such as team mood, product knowledge, work […]

Cien has recently been acknowledged by FinancesOnline.com, a B2B software directory, with two sales software awards for 2017: the 2017 Rising Star Award and the 2017 Great User Experience Award for top sales software. Cien – a sales productivity app for high performing sales teams – goes beyond automating the capture of activity data or […]