The data displays the most popular tools used to supplement customer relationship management (CRM) systems by business-to-business (B2B) software sales professionals worldwide, according to a survey conducted in June and July 2017. As of that time, 33.6% of enterprise software salespeople supplemented their CRM system with sales forecasting tools such as lead scoring and pipeline analytics. Around 20% utilized sales automation, including task automation and chat bots.
Sales forecasting (lead scoring, pipeline analytics) | 33.6 |
Sales enablement (predictive dialers, personalized content) | 22.4 |
Sales automation (task automation, chat bots) | 19.8 |
Sales performance (sales attribution, call anaytics) | 13.8 |
Other | 10.5 |