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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...
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...
Payer
Payer Provider Portals: What They Are and Why You Need One
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As a payer, you know that your contractual relationships with different providers can be complicated. (Understatement of the year, right?) You’re dealing with different lines of business, government regulations, tangled provider relationships, and payment schedules that can be wildly different. What you need is a health insurance provider portal powered by Salesforce to bring it...
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
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
A Champion’s Take on Marketing Cloud and Insurance
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Silverliner and Salesforce Insurance guru Danielle Laffey recently sat down with Anthony Lamot, the CEO of DESelect, for an episode of their Heroes of Marketing Cloud series. Check out their chat, where they cover all things Marketing Cloud and insurance. Want to work with our great team? We’re hiring!
Financial Services
Salesforce Winter ‘21 Insurance Release Overview
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Are you ready for 2021? Salesforce’s winter release comes out starting January 8. I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Tom Everard, Principal Solution Engineer at Salesforce, during my Salesforce for Insurance Trailblazer Community meeting. (That’s just one of the perks of being a Trailblazer Community leader and Salesforce MVP!) Tom distilled the...
Financial Services
3 Big Factors for Your P&C Insurance Digital Transformation
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In the span of just a few months, digital transformation went from important to essential. We’ve seen in the last five years how new technology-based players in the property and casualty (P&C) insurance space forced traditional insurers to play catchup. Earlier this year, we talked about how 2020 was the year to invest in digital...