The Silverline Blog
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
Financial Services
Why Digital Marketing Can Be a Powerful Tool for Investment Banks
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Many of the firms we work with saw 2020 as a year of reckoning for their marketing strategies. Disruption from COVID forced M&A and corporate access professionals to rethink their approach. What are the risks, and where are the major opportunities to holding events online and launching digital marketing strategies? Can information be securely shared...
Financial Services
Tableau CRM vs. Tableau vs. Einstein
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The foundation of any great customer experience? Data. Salesforce has always been a best-in-class CRM, with industry-specific solutions like Health Cloud and Financial Services Cloud. But one of their biggest value propositions is bringing more data to more people in an organization. As Salesforce continues to expand, it can be challenging to keep up with...
Financial Services
Updates to Financial Services Cloud: What You Need to Know
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Exciting news: Salesforce just announced new updates to Financial Services Cloud. Our industry leads spent a great (virtual) day at the Salesforce Industries Summit working with leaders revolutionizing their companies in an all-digital, work-from-anywhere world. I caught up with our industry leads from investment banking, insurance, banking and lending, and wealth management to understand what Salesforce’s...
Financial Services
5 Trends Shaping the Future of Investment Banking Today
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What made the difference between success and failure in the last year? 2020 changed everything. Finance was no different. Dealmaking in 2020 split into two parts: the first half cratered at $971bn, with a 6.6% year-on-year decline by value while deal count was down 15.5%. Contrast that with the second half of the year, with...
Financial Services
Transforming the Lending Experience with Salesforce
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Historically, loan origination workflow was paper focused and labor intensive. Measuring the efficiency and quality of work was difficult to achieve. The height of piles or folders on desks helped you know whether or not your employees were overwhelmed or had capacity. It was seemingly impossible to understand where bottlenecks existed in the system and...
Silverline News
Announcing the Next Wave of CalendarAnything
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Silverline, creator of the #1 Salesforce calendar app, CalendarAnything, today announced a launch of CalendarAnything 3.0 for Salesforce on the AppExchange, bringing the app into the Lightning era as a Lightning Web Component. This updated, modern experience empowers teams from around the globe to collaborate more efficiently and easily. View your business at a high...
Healthcare
What is Vaccine Cloud and Why Do You Need It?
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We are undergoing the most extensive and complex distribution campaigns in modern history: the COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Something so complicated will undoubtedly bring challenges. With timing and accuracy of the utmost importance, an efficient vaccine management solution is required. That solution? Vaccine Cloud from Salesforce. What is Vaccine Cloud? Introduced in early 2021, this global...
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...
Healthcare
3 Key CRM Capabilities for Payers
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Payers fight a never-ending battle to effectively manage relationships with the provider, group, and member communities — in addition to traditional operational challenges like claims processing times and aging technology. But now, they must also face new demands such as the never-ending stream of government regulations and demands to lower costs in the healthcare delivery...
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...