Revenue intelligence

A revenue intelligence platform is software that captures and analyzes calls, emails and CRM activity to inspect deals, coach reps and forecast.

DefinitionA revenue intelligence platform is software that captures and analyzes calls, emails and CRM activity to inspect deals, coach reps and forecast.

Revenue intelligence is the use of recorded sales conversations and CRM activity to judge deals and forecast, and a revenue intelligence platform is the software that does it. It runs on conversations attached to opportunities. It suits long, stakeholder-heavy deal cycles and has little to read in transactional or account-managed businesses where revenue arrives as orders, not deals. See sales analytics versus sales intelligence versus revenue intelligence.

How it is used

Software that records calls, emails and meetings, attaches them to opportunities, and analyzes them for deal inspection, coaching and forecasting. It depends on revenue arriving as deals with conversations.

Example

A manager sees that a deal forecast as committed has had no contact with anyone above manager level in six weeks.

Where it goes wrong

Bought for a business where revenue arrives as repeat orders. There are no deals for it to read.

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