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Quick Starts for Credit Score and Balance Trend Intelligence With Own & Data 360

August 14, 2024

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An Easy Path to Personalized Banking

In today’s banking tech landscape, it’s easy to over-engineer the path to personalization or risk control. But for institutions using Salesforce and its ecosystem, the pieces are already there — the challenge is connecting them in a way that delivers results fast.

A quick way to unlock real-time intelligence from your systems is to tap into the Own Backup & Recovery solutions and Salesforce Data 360 (Formerly Data Cloud).

These solutions aren’t speculative. They’re purpose-built to help teams:

  • Unify credit score trends to reduce NPL and power smarter lending decisions

  • Activate balance behavior insights to personalize offers and grow wallet share

If your institution uses Salesforce — and has credit or balance data spread across platforms — these are quick wins worth paying attention to.

Credit Score Trend Activation

Most institutions already collect credit scores — but they’re often siloed, timestamped, or too static to act on. This Quick Start connects 3-, 6-, and 12-month credit trends across internal and third-party systems.

It feeds this unified data into Salesforce Data Cloud, where teams can:

Why it matters:

  • For customers: Lending offers feel accurate and timely, not misaligned with their real risk profile

  • For operations: Teams move faster with fewer escalations and more data-backed decisions

Balance Behavior Trend Activation

Balances shift in ways that reveal opportunity — or risk. This solution pulls balance trend data (deposits, withdrawals, utilization) into Salesforce Data Cloud to surface behavioral patterns that your teams can act on, in real time.

With this Quick Start, institutions can:

Why it matters:

  • For customers: Product and service engagement matches their behavior and needs

  • For operations: Cross-functional teams can align on when and how to intervene — or upsell

These are not platform overhauls. Both Quick Starts are scoped for fast deployment and fit within existing Salesforce infrastructure. If you’re already using Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, or CRM Analytics, you likely have most of what you need already.

How Data Cloud and Own Work Together

Data Recovery + Real-Time Activation = Real Results

Own (Backup & Recovery)

Our strategic partnership with Own ensures institutions can retrieve the data they already paid for — even if it’s stuck in an old platform, was partially deleted, or needs to be repurposed.

Think of Own as the data unlock step.

Salesforce Data Cloud (Unified & Actionable)

Once that data is recovered or extracted, Salesforce Data Cloud serves as the activation layer — unifying it across systems and teams.

Think of Data Cloud as the engine that connects data, people, and processes.

Related: View Process Demo 

Together, Own + Salesforce Data Cloud help banks and credit unions unlock siloed data, unify it in real time, and act on it across teams. Whether it’s turning credit trends into smarter lending or using balance behavior to personalize offers, these solutions align marketing, lending, and service around one shared view. Fortimize brings it all together with a single project plan and a clear path to value.

Both Quick Starts are scoped for fast, low-risk deployment. Quick starts and accelerators are often live in less than six weeks, cost under $100K, and have nearly 100% adoption within 90 days. 

There’s no need to rebuild platforms or restructure teams — just connect what you already have and start making smarter decisions, faster.

Unlock endless possibilities

Thought Leadership Paper

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