How to Boost Conversion Through Data Silos Collaboration

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In an increasingly regulated environment and with an unstoppable growth of data volume, organizations face a major dilemma: how can they extract more value from their data without compromising security or violating regulations like GDPR or HIPAA?

One of the keys to improving conversion rates—whether in marketing campaigns, product personalization, or recommendations—lies in breaking down data silos. However, this raises significant legal, technical, and competitive challenges. This is where our platform comes into play.

The Problem with Data Silos: Fragmented Data, Incomplete Vision

Each business unit, subsidiary, partner, or even company within the same sector manages its own data in isolation. This fragmentation prevents companies from gaining a holistic view of customer behavior or the performance of their commercial actions.

For example, in banking, credit card, investment, and insurance data are often managed separately. In retail, online and in-store channels frequently do not share real-time information. In healthcare, each hospital or medical center holds patient records that cannot be freely shared.

This lack of integration limits the predictive power of AI models and, consequently, reduces the ability to personalize user experiences, anticipate needs, and ultimately increase conversion.

How to Break Data Silos?

Federated Learning is an artificial intelligence technology that allows collaborative model training without needing to move the data from its original location. Instead of centralizing information, the model is trained locally in each node (organization, department, country…), and only model updates (weights) are shared—not the data itself.

This enables multiple silos to collaborate on training a shared model that leverages everyone’s insights, without exposing sensitive data or compromising privacy.

Learn more about how Federated learning works here

Use cases where conversion is improved

1. Personalized Marketing Across Business Units

Different brands within the same corporate group can collaborate to build more effective recommendation systems. For example, a cosmetics brand, a fashion brand, and a nutrition brand can identify shared behavioral patterns without directly exchanging data. This enables cross-brand hyper-personalized campaigns with higher conversion rates.

2. Healthcare: Treatment Adherence and Personalization

Hospitals, insurers, and primary care centers can collaborate using federated models that predict treatment abandonment or risk of readmission—without sharing clinical records. This enables the delivery of reminders, extra support, or treatment adjustments tailored to each patient, improving clinical outcomes and adherence.

3. Retail & FMCG: Assortment and Promotion Optimization

Chains or subsidiaries operating in different regions can train models together to analyze purchasing behavior based on geographic profile, seasonality, or customer segments. This enables smarter assortment decisions and more effective localized promotions, increasing average cart value and campaign conversions.

4. Finance & Insurance: Federated Scoring and Churn Reduction

Financial institutions or insurers that cannot share customer data can collaborate on models that detect risk or churn patterns. This helps identify profiles with high product adoption potential or those likely to leave, enabling proactive strategies to improve conversion and retention.

5. Mobility & Transportation: Route Optimization and Personalized Offers

Urban mobility providers, transport companies, and logistics services can use Federated Learning to share knowledge on usage patterns, demand, or congestion—without compromising user privacy. This allows real-time service adjustment, targeted promotions during off-peak times, and better conversion of new users.

6. Pharmaceutical Industry: Cross-Lab Collaboration

Different labs can jointly train models to analyze drug response, treatment adherence, or clinical outcomes—without revealing sensitive trial or patient data. This collaboration enables the design of more personalized treatment strategies and increases conversion rates for new therapies brought to market.

Direct Benefits for Conversion

  • More accurate models, trained with diverse and complementary data.

  • Finer segmentation, even when data is distributed among multiple stakeholders.

  • Frictionless personalization, tailored to each user based on federated patterns.

  • Lower customer acquisition cost (CAC), thanks to more targeted campaigns.

  • Regulatory compliance, since personal data is never moved or exposed.

Federated Learning opens a new era of secure collaboration between entities that previously could not share data. By breaking down data silos without breaking privacy, it enables the development of more powerful and effective AI models capable of significantly boosting conversion across multiple industries.

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