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Drive Growth By Reinventing Agent-Carrier Workflow Using Salesforce
Editor's Notes
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More merger/acquisition activity is happening than ever before within the distributor/agency space. As these relationships change and power is consolidated it is more important than ever before that carriers remain nimble and flexible while getting the most out of these critical relationships.
Carriers are looking for a balanced approach that reduces the length of applications and complements the intake process by incorporating third party data and master data management into the submission and underwriting processes. The result simplifies the user experience and results in more automation and better risk assessment for the carrier.
More and more employees are demanding that their work tools bring the same type of sophistication and experience that those applications in their personal lines deliver. Carriers are responding with investment in UI/UX.
The focus on the customer hasn’t stopped, but the investment in middle office and back office solutions is the new rage with carriers realizing that process automation and transparency are the keys to creating more loyal agents and customers while reducing expense ratios and increasing conversion rates.
Notes:
With the acquisition of Vlocity, we are now significantly expanding our footprint into insurance with end-to-end policy transaction support in the middle and back office that will complement Salesforce’s strength in front-office CRM applications, specifically with our FinServ industry product Financial Services Cloud. Last year, we announced the we were expanded the functionality of Financial Services Cloud into the insurance industry with support for insurers, agents, customer service reps and policyholders. Now with the addition of Vlocity’s Digital Insurance Platform, we will be able to offer support throughout the end-to-end customer lifecycle.
Our customers and prospects will now be able to see key benefits including seamless customer experience with omnichannel customer journeys, speed-to-market through digital channels, operational efficiency with straight through processing, business innovation and core processes in the cloud.
Vlocity’s Digital Insurance Platform, built 100% on the Salesforce Customer 360, offers core insurance processes designed for property and casualty, life and employee benefits, that span the entire policy lifecycle including quote, rate and apply, policy administration,claims management and omnichannel service. With Salesforce and Vlocity, we are offering a competitive advantage for insurers who want the ability to run their business throughout the customer lifecycle.
Comments from Review:
differentiated value prop on the sub-head
front end-to-multiple back-ends
left as here’s the main value - one slide
specific products as a separate slide in a typical money slide
customer logo customer box - infusing that
Sample Customers
P&C: Ascot, Azur, Insr, Atlas, RSA, Liberty Mutual
Life: Seguros Monterrey New York Life, Pacific Life, Crédit Agricole Japan
Key Message:
Leverage an out-of-the-box CRM built for insurance that delivers fast time to value, built directly on the Salesforce platform. Financial Services Cloud:
Financial Services Cloud is BUILT on the Salesforce Platform
It Extends the capabilities of Sales & Service Cloud, and is able to leverage all of the innovation that they deliver 3x/year
Financial Services Cloud has purpose-built capabilities that service financial services firms and insurance companies -- and with Vlocity + Financial Services Cloud, insurance customers now have an end-to-end customer engagement platform that supports the processes at each step of the customer lifecycle so every touch becomes an opportunity to know the customer better, to guide that customer, and to build loyalty. Vlocity + FSC provides industry-specific capabilities so that insurers, agents and customer service reps have the single pane of glass view of the policyholder, along with oversight into all business processes.
Other products in the Salesforce portfolio are verticalizing to deliver more innovation for financial services and insurance firms. With Einstein Analytics for Insurance you can leverage contextualized analytics, and with Community Cloud for Financial Services, you can bring the FSC data model, components, and flows to policyholders, brokers and agents in order to provide both your partners and customers with an engaging digital experience.
Additional Talk Track:
Customer 360 + Platform
We built the Salesforce Customer 360 to help companies transform their businesses to deliver the personalized experiences that customers expect. The Salesforce Customer 360 is an integrated CRM platform that unites marketing, sales, commerce, service, and IT departments. It gives these teams a shared view of their customers so they can work together to build lasting, trusted relationships and deliver the continuous experiences their customers expect.
And our platform allows your company, no matter what size, to build amazing experiences for your customers. Technologies like mobile, AI, and security are available to you as you grow. Our trusted, intelligent, integrated and sustainable platform provides the tools that our customers need for success. At Salesforce, we believe that anyone who wants to change the world should have the tools and technology to do so.
Salesforce Success Cloud Solutions include:
CSG (Customer Success Group) - Salesforce experts - world’s #1 architects, success managers, and more
Salesforce Approach and Insights (methodologies) offer 18 years of industry leading best practices, including Compass and exclusive customer data insights powered by Einstein, which creates proactive recommendations to customers to help drive adoption and find business value
Success Cloud Products and Services: Accelerators, Expeditions, Success Plans
DIY/Always on resources - Trailhead, communities, webinars and event
Marketing Cloud:
Converting to Salesforce FSC from the manual spreadsheet environment was a bit of a culture shock for the team
Our growing team in the field needed a more fluid way to connect and review agency performance metrics
Key and expected results in all areas
- FOCUS on the Sales rep metrics, tracking & Exec. Management Reporting
Agent 360 view drives engagement for the sales rep with each agency. The high-level consolidated view of the relationship provides a clear vision for planning.
- Assembling a performance-based view for our sales reps to manage the agency at a glance along with one click access to pipeline view or activity/task tracking
- Success story from the team: showing this view on screen during a zoom call with the agent has opened the conversation up to more cross selling as we reviewed the new to renewal line submission trend. Ability to drill down into the data from this 360 view allowed for more honest dialogue with the agent about competitive markets.
Customer 360 view gives out sales reps the typical CRM benefits, however for NBIS, having a quick view of the profitability at a customer level changes the conversation.
- Leveraging submission details on renewal and new business lines enables the cross-selling dialogue. Something spreadsheets cannot do – no matter how hard we tried.
Planning activities and lead generation are the key features for NBIS’ selection on this app.
Implemented in September 2020, has already added value for trip planning in the western region with wildfires and smoke layers impacting travel.