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May 2, 2024

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A Fortimize blog on industry tidbits, business challenges and technology innovations for your financial service firm.

Buy vs Build: Centralizing Brokerage Data Without Sacrificing Independence

“Brokers Love CRM. They Just Hate the Corporate Overlord.” It is one of the oldest tensions in brokerage. Brokers want control over their deals and relationships. Leadership needs a clear view of pipeline activity across the firm. Both

We’re Hiring: Technical Architect

Salesforce Technical Architect (Virtual) Fortimize is a team-owned Salesforce consulting firm specializing in the Financial Services industry. From banks and credit unions to real estate investment firms, we help institutions take control of their technology and customer relationships.

Navigator: A Modular Way to Expand Salesforce Usage Without Over-Committing

Navigator is a modular framework designed to help businesses implement and expand Salesforce without over-committing. It was created to close a recurring gap seen in the field. Working inside a large banking region alongside one of Salesforce’s premier

Fortimize Expands Salesforce Performance Suite With Data Utilization Assessment

Jackson, Wyoming — December 17, 2025 — Fortimize today announced the addition of a Data Utilization Assessment to its Salesforce Performance Suite, a trusted set of diagnostic assessments designed to help financial institutions and commercial businesses evaluate, optimize,

Salesforce Consumption: When More Data Erodes Confidence, Predictability Keeps Teams Moving

Salesforce’s broader shift to a usage-based model has many teams slowing down to re-learn labels, revisit product names, and rethink how Data 360 credits actually work. The anxiety is real. No one wants to burn through credits before

How to Design Salesforce Momentum That Outlasts Any One Partner

Salesforce product adoption rarely sinks because the work is complex. It slows when continuity breaks across teams, phases, and time. This pattern appears across nearly all traditional engagements, from first-time product implementations to large-scale expansions. Despite T&M failing

COO Spotlight: One Afternoon Changed How I See Salesforce Delivery Forever

Traditional T&M Salesforce Delivery is Broken Every time we explain our delivery model, it takes a minute to help people break free from the old assumptions.  Somehow, we’ve all been conditioned to believe you can predict exactly how

4 Ways IDP Delivers ROI in Banking — Including up to $1,500 Saved Per Loan

IDP Can Strengthen Banking Operations Banks and credit unions continue to wrestle with paper-heavy processes — statements, loan packets, ID forms, property details. Each manual step slows service, introduces risk, and frustrates customers. Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) flips

From Delivery to Preparation: MuleSoft and Data 360 in Banking Explained

MuleSoft and Data 360 (Formerly Data Cloud) are often compared — but they’re not competing products, and that’s where the confusion starts. Instead, consider them complementary.  MuleSoft Delivers Like a delivery service, it collects ingredients (data) from farms

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Digital Transformation in the Financial Services Industry During COVID by Jim Collins