Beyond Sales Quota: What Keeps Decision Makers Up at Night?

Beyond Sales quota blog post
[ 2-3 min read ] Did you know that, “Only 17% of sales professionals working at companies with more than 250 reps are satisfied with their visibility on their sales pipeline.” It is no secret that B2B sales leaders spend their days and nights thinking of ways to help their teams make their numbers. However, […]

3 Sales Performance Traps to Avoid

While selling has never been easy, it hasn’t become harder either. Selling has become a more refined process where efficiency is key. Increasing sales performance requires operational awareness of the quality of leads generated from marketing as well as the performance of individual salespeople. With artificial intelligence (AI), your business can understand the deeper dynamics […]

Cien Chosen for Open Challenge at Mobile World Congress 2019

AI company showcases new guided selling capability Dallas and Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 25, 2019 Cien Inc., the leading provider of AI-powered sales productivity solutions, today announced its participation in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Open Innovation Challenge and the unveiling of its new AI-powered “Cien Mentor” feature. MWC is the largest mobile technology event in […]

Cien to Present at BCG’s PopTech Experience

Cien will be one of several innovative companies in the tech industry represented at Boston Consulting Groupś POPTECH Experience in Berlin on September 19th.

Cien Opens Center of Excellence for Data Science and AI

The purpose of the Center is to understand B2B buyer and seller behavior by analyzing CRM data. DALLAS and MIAMI, Dec. 19, 2018 Cien Inc., a leading provider of AI-powered sales productivity solutions, today announced it closed a seed equity round and obtained financing, via Spain’s Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI). The proceeds totaling over $1.8M USD will, among […]

Salesforce Names Cien Customer Hero

Cien launches study on artificial intelligence and the future of sales. Cien, the artificial intelligence company that helps companies predict and improve their sales productivity, has been named “Customer Hero” by Salesforce.com. Every year Salesforce.com recognizes customers whose innovative technology and implementations have made them heroes to the people with whom they work. Cien was […]

How AI Will Change Enterprise Sales

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 […]

Cien Wins Innovation Award for CRM Software

Winners from other categories include Salesforce, Adobe, MailChimp, Marketo and Hubspot. Cien, the AI-powered app that helps teams improve their sales performance, today announced it has won MarTech Breakthrough’s Innovation Award for CRM Software. MarTech Breakthrough is an independent organization that recognizes the world’s leading sales and marketing technologies. The program received more than 2,000 nominations […]

Align Your Sales and Marketing Using AI

There’s an old saying in geometry circles: every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square. It’s true; all squares have the basic elements of a rectangle: four sides, four right angles. To be a square, though, all four sides must be of equal length; a rectangle only cares about equal length […]

Use this App and it’s AI to Improve your Sales

“The app, which is currently available for Salesforce.com customers, takes into account human and behavioral elements to detect problems and predict outcomes for sales leaders.” – Dallas Business Journal Cien was recently featured on the front page of the Dallas Business Journal. Co-founders Margot Carter and Rob Käll joined Cien COO Lisa Cook to discuss […]