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Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Banking Whitepaper
1. Independent analysis shows that Microsoft Dynamics
CRM drives tangible performance benefits for banks
According to First Research, ―The profitability of individual banks depends on
marketing skills, efficient operations, and good risk management.‖
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Achieving that is
difficult enough in a normal economy. So how are bankers supposed to optimize
these competency areas in a recession?
The answer: by being agile and adapting quickly to changes in the business
environment and consumer behavior.
Rather than relying on the acquisition of new, hard-to-find customers, astute
executives are refocusing on existing clients. That means finding ways to optimize the
profitability of every customer relationship. And it means providing high levels of
service to retain those customers.
A recession also demands improvements in efficiency. Banks that streamline processes
to maximize income and minimize expenses will emerge as winners. A necessary
precursor to achieving this end is having a deep understanding of customers’ needs,
wants, and demands. That level of visibility is essential to making every marketing,
sales, and service dollar count.
SOLUTION TO THESE CHALLENGES
From Global 500 banks to local credit unions, banking executives are choosing
Microsoft Dynamics® CRM business software to maximize the profitability of existing
customer relationships while driving efficiency improvements and cost savings. The
flexible software solution delivers synergistic value by integrating with legacy systems
and other products in the Microsoft® product portfolio. It extends easily to other
branches, and it economically supports the acquisition of other banks.
To better understand how banks are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft turned
to The Optera Group, LLC (Optera) for an independent assessment. Optera interviewed
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First Research, ―Banks and Credit Unions,‖ quarterly update, October, 20 2008, p.1.
Banks Use CRM to Drive Profitability,
Cut Costs, and Reduce Risk
Independent analysis by The
Optera Group shows that
banks that utilize Microsoft
Dynamics CRM markedly
enhance their marketing,
operations, and risk
management results.
2. a variety of banks to document the measurable benefits they have achieved using
Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The customer profiles presented below illustrate how
executives are taking advantage of Microsoft Dynamics CRM to survive in a down
economy.
REAL-TIME ADAPTATION TO VOLATILE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
Managers who rely on customer data derived from manual tools and processes are at
a disadvantage. Using spreadsheets, paper files, and e-mail communications to gather
data is slower and less accurate than using electronic systems. Consequently,
managers base decisions on stale information rife with errors.
To adapt to the current economy, bankers need real-time visibility into customer
information. With this information, they can make more-informed choices when
managing cash positions and evaluating the risk associated with those positions.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM was developed to optimize the use of customer data. The
software captures data to provide bank employees with a comprehensive view of each
customer’s ―life‖ with the bank. It includes robust reporting tools that enable detailed,
accurate analysis of marketing, sales, and service activities. Such data also contributes
to meeting stringent regulatory requirements.
Deployments by Sterling Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBIB) and Sasfin Bank, Ltd (JSE:
SFIHF.PK) show how executives use Microsoft Dynamics CRM business software to be
more agile.
Greater Loan Pipeline Accuracy Improves Loan Production and Funds Acquisition
Operations
Sterling Bank has assets of U.S.$5.1 billion and operates 59 banking offices throughout
Texas. The use of existing tools and systems failed to generate sufficiently accurate
loan pipeline reports. This made it difficult for managers to manage the bank’s cash
position and funds acquisition process.
To overcome this challenge the bank’s CEO decided to implement Microsoft Dynamics
CRM. Managers replaced manual tools with a sales-force automation system so that,
today, employees use a standardized sales process that better forecasts a loan’s
potential to close.
As a result, the accuracy of the bank’s pipeline increased by 71 percent (from 35
percent to 60 percent). This improved the predictability of the loan pipeline and
allowed managers to better administer loan production and funds acquisition
operations.
―Microsoft Dynamics
CRM is a vital tool to
help us manage and
grow our banking
business. It gives us the
visibility we need into
our banking operations
so that we can make
better decisions.‖
DAVID THROGMORTON
Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer, Sterling Bank
3. 360-DEGREE VIEW AIDS ACCURATE RISK ASSESSMENTS
Sasfin Bank is a South African bank that provides financial services to entrepreneurs.
Disparate systems, data silos, and manual collation processes made it difficult to
quickly analyze risk and comply with regulatory reporting requirements. To overcome
these challenges, managers implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The benefits
include:
Improved view of risk-based decisions. With a comprehensive view of customer
information, underwriters can weigh risk more accurately. Microsoft Dynamics CRM
replaced the manual collation of data to provide risk exposure data to users
overnight—versus the three days it took using legacy solutions. Additionally, the data
collation error rate fell by 80 percent.
Dramatic improvement in regulatory reporting performance. Microsoft Dynamics CRM
collates customer data for export to the bank’s data warehouse. Together, the cost to
produce regulatory compliance reports was cut by 20 percent.
EXTENDED OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY ACROSS THE ENTERPRISE
While mergers and acquisitions are a boon to business, they pose significant
challenges for IT departments. Microsoft Dynamics CRM can help ease these hurdles.
The software was designed to rapidly and economically extend to new branches so
that banks realize time-to-value much faster than using alternative solutions.
MidAtlantic Farm Credit is one of the largest agricultural lenders on the east coast of
the United States. It boasts over U.S.$2 billion in outstanding loans and serves more
than 10,500 members. The day after a merger with another member group, the bank
implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM. By embedding the member group’s best
practices into the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system and merging them with
MidAtlantic’s core banking processes, the member group’s best practices were
maintained.
ENHANCED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
The banks interviewed for this study have taken measures to ensure a superior
customer experience. Executives cited the need to retain good customers and expand
relationships with them to increase revenues.
This strategy has merit. One recent study showed that ―loyalist‖ customers bring 24
percent more deposits and 14 percent more consumer loan balances than the national
average.
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Paul McAdam and B. Joseph Pine II, Banking Strategies, BAI, Customer Experience Rule,
November/December 2006.
―[Microsoft
Dynamics] CRM
has improved our
reputational
standing with our
central bank. All
required data is
now available for
reporting. The
access to key data
also increased the
efficiency of our
risk management
operations.‖
LIZANDE VERMELEN
Manager of Basel II
Implementation, Sasfin Bank
4. To improve the customer experience, executives at MidAtlantic Farm Credit and Banca
Transilvania implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
High Service Ratings Maintained While Doubling in Size
When east-coast farmers need to finance large livestock purchases, buy a new farm
machine or agricultural real estate, many turn to MidAtlantic Farm Credit. The banking
co-op’s customers fit within a wide array of niche segments.
The bank used low-tech tools and systems to track leads, marketing campaigns, and
customers. This led to silos of ―tribal knowledge‖ in which valuable customer histories
resided with individual employees. Although account representatives provided stellar
customer service, other employees lacked the visibility into customer data that would
allow them to match that service.
The bank’s deployment of Microsoft Dynamics CRM overcame these shortcomings.
Customer data is now a corporate asset and resides in a centralized location for
current and future employees to use. As a result, bank deposits grew by 100 percent
over eight years while customer satisfaction and employee headcounts remained
constant.
Faced with growing competition in its market, Romania’s Banca Transilvania launched
an initiative to improve the retention rate among 1.25 million customers. It converted
a call center into a multi-channel contact center to handle the 360,000 customer
inquiries received annually. Managers then replaced the existing telephone-based
customer information system with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Now, more than 500 branches and about 900 employees use Microsoft Dynamics CRM
to process multi-channel customer contacts. Using the software has delivered a
number of benefits, including:
A 20 percent increase in the resolution rate at branch locations (1,500 contacts per
month). A comprehensive customer view allows branch employees to improve their
first-call resolution rates while reducing their per-instance time-to-resolution. This has
improved customer experience and strengthened customer relationships with branch
staffers.
Contact center productivity increased by 30 percent. The use of automated workflows
and tasks, along with built-in forms and reports, in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
dramatically improved service representative output. As a result, customers were
answered sooner and the time to resolve issues was reduced.
OPTIMIZED PROCESS EFFECIENCY
The current recession has delivered a blow to banks. Shrinking loan pipelines and
service-fee income have driven down revenues. Simultaneously, many major financial
institutions have announced large-scale layoffs. In response, executives are revisiting
―[Microsoft
Dynamics] CRM
facilitated our
ability to grow
while keeping the
same high level of
satisfaction among
our customers.‖
SANDY WIEBER
Director of Marketing,
MidAtlantic Farm Credit
5. their processes to discover ways to boost efficiency and maximize the return they get
on their budget investments.
Because Microsoft Dynamics CRM is configurable, easy to customize, and quick to
deploy and integrate with existing solutions, banks can bring finely tailored solutions
to market that significantly improve their ability to manage marketing, sales, and
service operations. The following banks illustrate this point:
Reduced regulatory reporting staff by 75 percent to save U.S.$625,000 over five years.
Sasfin Bank managers markedly improved operational efficiency by integrating
Microsoft Dynamics CRM with existing systems and automating their regulatory
reporting process.
Established best-in-class telesales conversion-to-revenue rate of 6 percent. Banca
Transilvania deployed Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a marketing and telesales tool.
After standardizing and automating processes, telesales productivity improved by 25
percent.
Increased marketing campaign management efficiency by 20 percent. By reusing
marketing campaigns that included contacts, activity lists, and notes, MidAtlantic Farm
Credit cut wasteful labor hours that were devoted to recreating campaigns.
Business intelligence optimizes marketing spending. MidAtlantic Farm Credit
managers used the business intelligence capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM to
trace $900,000 in loan closings to contacts made at a trade show that was slated for
cancellation. Consequently, MidAtlantic reversed the decision to cancel the lucrative
event. Today, marketers analyze the performance of all initiatives to ensure that
marketing spending supports high-value programs.
Development Tools Cost-Effectively Support Other Banking Operations
Microsoft Dynamics CRM uses industry-standard development tools and languages to
make it easy for banks to adapt the software to processes other than marketing, sales,
and service. This liberates executives to improve operations and customer experience
in ways not normally associated with CRM systems.
50 percent increase in Internet banking sales. Banca Transilvania integrated Microsoft
Dynamics CRM with the process the bank uses to issue log-on credentials to its online
banking Web site. Consequently, the time to issue credentials was cut by 75 percent.
Managers attribute this reduction to a 50 percent increase in sales by the Internet
banking solution.
Cost of Microsoft Dynamics CRM amortized over additional applications. Sterling Bank
managers used Microsoft Dynamics CRM to cost-effectively develop a ―lead referrals
module‖ that is now part of employee compensation plans.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Configured to Boost Efficiency of Collections Operations
―Users adopted
the system quickly
because of its look
and feel. The
Microsoft Dynamics
CRM solution
consolidates all our
operations and
information
through a single
user interface.
Many manual tasks
are now automated
and access to
information is
much faster.‖
IONELA ROŞ
Contact Centre Department
Manager, Banca Transilvania
6. South Carolina–based Southcoast Community Bank implemented Microsoft Dynamics
CRM to improve the accuracy of pipeline reports. However, as the recession
deepened, executives noted a rise in the number of non-performing loans. Collections
periods also were increasing. With only two agents working collections, the increasing
workload began to take its toll. After evaluating alternatives, managers decided that
the Microsoft Dynamics CRM software would be an ideal tool for developing a
―collections module.‖ This had a number of advantages including:
Shortened time-to-use. The cost to purchase banking-specific collections applications
was prohibitive. By utilizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM, managers capitalized on an
existing solution to implement a collections system sooner and more economically
than would have been possible with alternative options.
Increased collections productivity. With the collections module, the bank’s two agents
can administer many more collections cases without the need to add new personnel.
Better collections management. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM, executives have
detailed visibility into collections to help them manage for maximum profitability.
SUMMARY
With Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the six banks surveyed in this study have better tools
for weathering the recession. These banks use Microsoft Dynamics CRM to optimize
marketing initiatives so that budgets are applied only to high-value opportunities, and
they use the workflow engine in Microsoft Dynamics CRM to automate processes to
improve the efficiency of loan production, funds acquisition, and risk management
operations. Finally, these banks are using a 360-degree view of clients to improve
customer service. In so doing, they promote retention rates and identify opportunities
to maximize the value of existing customer relationships.
―What I really like
about [Microsoft
Dynamics] CRM is
that it’s infinitely
configurable. We can
do what we want with
it today, and it is
flexible enough as a
platform to use for
something else that
we haven’t even
thought of yet. In my
35 years in IT, this has
been the best
product I’ve seen in
terms of the flexibility
to adapt it to our
needs.‖
PAUL HOLLAND
Executive Vice President and Chief
Operations Officer, Southcoast
Community Bank
7. ABOUT THE OPTERA GROUP, LLC
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The Optera Group is a professional services company that specializes in helping clients
understand how they touch and impact their customers. We focus our services on
helping our clients:
Understand their customer experience model.
Explain their leadership and value propositions to their customers.
Define customer-focused marketing and sales strategies.
We specialize in applying these services in the business-to-business technology fields
and have extensive experience in IT best practices, business IT alignment issues, and
assessing the Definitive Economic Value of IT investments.
To learn more, please visit us at:
www.opteragroup.com
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions
that enables you and your people to make business decisions with greater confidence.
Microsoft Dynamics works like familiar Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Office,
which means less of a learning curve for your people, so they can get up and running
quickly and focus on what’s most important. And because it is from Microsoft, it easily
works with the systems that your company already has implemented. By automating
and streamlining financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes,
Microsoft Dynamics brings together people, processes, and technologies, increasing
the productivity and effectiveness of your business, and helping you drive business
success.
For more information about Microsoft Dynamics, go to:
www.microsoft.com/dynamics
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Information contained in this publication has been obtained from sources considered reliable,
but is not warranted by The Optera Group, LLC.
MORE INFORMATION
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Microsoft products and services,
call the Microsoft Sales
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Document published April 2009