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Salesforce Insurance Industry Innovations for 2022
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The insurance industry is dealing with a major talent gap. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 400,000 employees are expected to retire from the insurance industry workforce within the next few years. Yet, those people that were supposed to follow in retirees’ footsteps are choosing a different path. 44% of millennials say...
Financial Services
How to Build a Better Contact Center with FSC and Salesforce Industries
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Although customers are increasingly moving to digital channels, traditional contact center support will continue to remain an important service channel. At many contact centers, the ability to serve customers is negatively impacted by agent’s need to access multiple legacy applications — frequently with a need to re-key and search for information separately in each, made...
Financial Services
Silverline Named a 2022 ‘Leader’ for Salesforce Services in Insurance by Everest Group
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Silverline, a digital transformation consultancy and Salesforce partner headquartered in New York City, announced today that it has been named a Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for Salesforce Services in Insurance Service Provider 2022. The PEAK Matrix provides an objective, data-driven assessment of service and technology providers based on their overall capability and...
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Nicole McGuire Expands Role, Leads Insurance Services at Silverline
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Silverline, a Salesforce consulting firm headquartered in New York City, announced today that Nicole McGuire will take on an expanded role as Senior Director, Insurance Services Lead. Nicole will be responsible for the overall insurance project portfolio health, delivery capabilities, resource development, staffing, scaling, and overall client satisfaction. Nicole will also continue in her role...
Financial Services
Rob Petitgout Joins Silverline as Senior Director, Insurance Go-To-Market Lead
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Silverline, a Salesforce consulting firm headquartered in New York City, today announced that Rob Petitgout has joined the Financial Services practice as Senior Director, Insurance Go-To-Market Lead. In this new role, Rob will partner with insurance companies to help them identify new ways to leverage technology solutions that drive transformation, growth, and measurable ROI. To...
Financial Services
Why Connected Car Insurance is the Future
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The world of auto insurance is changing fast, with customer expectations shifting rapidly toward auto policies that leverage usage-based pricing models, something traditional insurance IT systems can’t typically support. Even before COVID-19 changed driving habits, consumers already started to demand behavior-driven pricing. In April 2020, Americans drove 64% fewer miles, and KPMG predicts as much...
Financial Services
How Legal & General America Built a Foundation for Digital Experiences at Scale
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Legal & General is one of the world’s leading multinational financial services companies — and has been since 1836. Headquartered in London, the firm is the ninth-largest global insurer, with more than $1.5 trillion in total assets under management. Legal & General America (LGA), their U.S. division, has provided life insurance and other financial services...
Financial Services
5 Pressures Facing Auto Insurance Companies (+ How to Deal with Them)
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The cost of claims across insurance sectors have been dropping over the past few years, with automation and technology reducing the cost of claims as much as 30%. At the same time though, there’s a host of pressures on auto insurance companies to change their premium pricing model to stay competitive with the market. What’s...
Financial Services
How to Improve the Claims Management Process
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What does your claims process look like? Most insurance carriers typically have confusing multi-tiered processes that the average customer struggles to figure out and ignores the emotional journey the claimant is most likely going through. Customers expect digital self-service experiences in everything from food delivery, same-day shipping, to breaking news on social media; they’re going...
Financial Services
Achieve an Improved Underwriting Process with Salesforce
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Changes in the insurance industry have recently resulted in increased efforts to ensure new data points and pricing logic can be leveraged to maximize outcomes. This means that insurance underwriting processes need to catch up. By combining both engagement and transactional capabilities within a single platform, insurers can improve time to value and increase tactical...