Kognitio’s sales productivity increases by 1000% within first month of using Salesforce
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“It’s about making sales and marketing people accountable. It gives the business complete transparency – you know what’s going on. Salesforce has made the company more effective and more efficient.”
Sean Jackson
Marketing Director
Challenge
- Kognitio was looking for a robust and reliable CRM solution to replace an ad hoc system of spreadsheets and databases.
- Sales people had their own systems for lead tracking and the company wanted a more unified, consistent approach.
- Kognitio had lots of data, but it was scattered around the company and thus difficult to harness effectively.
Solution
- Implementation took only five days, dramatically reducing the time taken to get the system up and running, and users online.
- In this time, the system was configured to suit Kognitio's needs; all relevant data was loaded and all marketing, sales and support staff were trained.
- The roll-out was fast, involving just one day’s training, followed by some one-to-one support.
- Employees found Salesforce very easy to use and soon became enthusiastic users.
Results
- Kognitio’s sales productivity increased by 1000% within the first month of using Saleforce.
- By using Salesforce, the company’s ability to analyse the effectiveness of its marketing campaigns increased by seven-fold.
- The company’s CRM user adoption rate has gone from 20% to 100%, with everyone now using Salesforce.
- Salesforce has automated the closed-loop processes between marketing campaigns, leads, opportunities, forecasts and customers, greatly increasing efficiency.
- Kognitio is now rolling out a self-service portal for its customers

