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Media & Entertainment
Transforming a4’s Ad Sales Budgeting Process
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A4, a division of Altice News & Advertising, provides audience-based, multiscreen advertising solutions to local, regional, and national businesses and advertising clients. a4’s coverage offers over 80 million authenticated U.S. household IP addresses and 15 million households with viewership data collected across 210 Designated Market Areas (DMAs), including the Optimum markets that span nationwide. The...
Marketing Cloud
6 Tips to Survive Slowing Loan Growth with Marketing Cloud
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Look at how someone is caring for their house plants, and you’ll soon know if they’re a green thumb growing a blossoming lily or if that once leafy fern is in its dying days. Like a house plant, your banking and lending customers must be cultivated to flourish. Especially now with loan growth drooping as...
Media & Entertainment
How Salesforce Streamlines Production Operations
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M&M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES) That detail was part of the concert rider for Van Halen’s 1982 world tour. The request to remove all the brown M&Ms seems ridiculous and is just one more story about the legendary demands made by celebrities. But lead singer David Lee Roth later explained in an interview that...
Financial Services
Top Insurance Highlights from the Salesforce Spring ’23 Release
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The Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Spring ’23 release is coming out in a few weeks. We’re excited to see that many of the new capabilities offer solutions for the technology goals that insurance companies are looking to achieve, including: Digitizing the recruiting and interview process to create a unified experience that flows from the first...
Asset Management
How Digital Process Automation is Driving Asset Management Success
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The financial services industry has experienced some severe market volatility in the past few years, and this unpredictability and instability has severely disrupted all aspects of asset management, from private equity and venture capital to real estate and REITs. Asset management organizations are taking a digital-first approach to stay competitive in this challenging market. They...
Financial Services
Insurance Industry Trends 2023: Talent Shortages and Climate Change
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In the first part of our look at 2023 insurance trends, we covered how inflation and interest rates are impacting insurance. Now we turn to other trends we are seeing around talent shortages and climate change. We’ll also take a closer look at industry-specific issues, such as insurtech and producer consolidation, and share how Salesforce...
Media & Entertainment
Ensuring Greater Visibility for The MBS Group’s Stage and Studio Scheduling
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As the world’s largest studio advisory and production services company, The MBS Group services more than 500 sound stages across North America and Europe and supports more than 450 productions a year. The MBS Group provides studio management, studio design and development, and equipment inventories for lighting, grip, and expendables. The company has more than...
Financial Services
Insurance Industry Trends 2023: The Impact of Inflation and Interest Rates
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The insurance sector is not for the faint of heart. The massive insurance landscape is a fast-changing world of ebbs and flows, and the industry is continually influenced by trends that are beyond its control but that organizations need to overcome in order to succeed. Here we’ll dive into some of those insurance trends around...
Salesforce Platform
Why Salesforce Data Stewardship is a Team Effort
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“Our Salesforce has bad data, it’s unreliable.” That’s not something any leader wants to hear after a company invests into the platform, but it’s easy to get into a “this is just the way it is” mindset. Don’t let that happen. The data in Salesforce is a combination of many factors. In many orgs, users...
Media & Entertainment
How to Ensure a Seamless Migration to Salesforce Media Cloud
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No one likes moving houses. It’s a hassle to pack and unpack and set up all your new services like internet and electricity. But as much as it’s a pain to make the move, the outcome of a better living situation is usually worth it. Moving houses is similar to moving between Clouds. You know...