
Product Owner vs. Project Manager: What’s the Difference?
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At Silverline, we’re passionate about how technology can help solve business problems. But we’ll let you in on a little secret: technology is only as good as the team implementing it. We’ve done countless projects with hundreds of clients in financial services, healthcare, and media and entertainment, and the most successful implementations years later are...

3 Strategies for Successful Banking Mergers and Acquisitions
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After dipping in 2020, U.S. bank mergers and acquisitions are picking up steam. Companies announced more than 132 deals this year as of August 2021 — compared to 103 for all of 2020 — and total deal value grew by over $10 billion. But a deal announcement is far from the finish line. After months,...

Redefining Contact Center Operations for a Remote Workforce
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Remote work isn’t going away. According to Gallup, 51% of U.S. employees were working remotely as of May 2021, and 35% of them intended to stay remote in the future. Many contact centers had some type of work-from-home capability before the pandemic, but few had fully invested in a 100% remote environment. The rapid transition...

Extend nCino Capabilities to FSC and Use AI in Your Favor
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When we think about building a strong CRM strategy, it’s really about the entire customer lifecycle. How you market to leads, how you acquire and onboard new customers, how you manage regulatory rules, and how you provide customer service. With Salesforce, you can manage all of those aspects in one place by combining the power...

How to Prepare Your Bank to Cross $10 Billion in Assets
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As your bank grows, you need a team and technology that grows with you. Crossing the $10 billion threshold is a huge transition for a company — requiring investments in technology, skilled people, and new processes to accommodate changes in compliance, audit, and workflows. Salesforce is a key tool that can consolidate these workflows, give...

How Westfield Bank Aligns Sales and Marketing with Salesforce
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Westfield Bank provides relationship-based banking services for businesses and individuals across northeast Ohio and to independent insurance agencies across the country. Customers look to Westfield Bank for personal service, local decision-making, and the convenience of online banking anytime and anywhere. Since 2009, BauerFinancial has awarded Westfield Bank its 5-Star (Superior) rating, designating it as one...

The Top 5 Banking Skills of the Future
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Much has already been written on the ability of technology to transform the customer experience, introducing consumer lending portals and other tools for communication with lenders. But the truth is, consumer expectations are at an all-time high. You need to build a better lending experience or risk losing business. I’ve seen so many clients turn...

How 4 Banking and Lending Companies Use nCino with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
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Banking and lending is a complicated business. Teams have to juggle multiple systems to manage customer service, loan origination, email marketing, and more. nCino brings all of your legacy processes and procedures together and makes internal processes simpler, faster, and more transparent, while also providing associates with the tools necessary to do their job. This...

Accelerating Complaint Management with Salesforce
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No one wants to record complaints. In a perfect world, every customer is completely satisfied and every system works exactly the way it’s supposed to. But that’s not reality. You can’t fully prevent complaints from happening, but you can be prepared to respond to them in a way that stops them from growing into bigger...

Tableau CRM: What Is It Good For?
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Financial services firms today have access to mountains of data, from loan origination information to balances and market information — and it all can live in Salesforce. But access is only the first step to making use of that data, and empowering your teams to make active decisions on key accounts. That’s where Tableau CRM...