Salesforce CTI Integration

What is CTI ?

CTI is stand for Computer Telephony Integration. CTI is a type of technology that enables computer and telephone system to Interact together. CTI is most commonly used by call centers handling a large number of incoming calls. Call centers can implement CTI to use computers to manage all telephone calls.

Salesforce open CTI

Open CTI is a JavaScript API that lets you build and Integrate third party computers telephone integration (CTI) systems with Salesforce Call center. With CTI, We can make calls with a softphone directly inside Salesforce without installing specific CTI adapters.

Setup CTI in salesforce

Let see how we can setup the open CTI in Salesforce.

1. Install and Deploy a Manage Package?: Install a managed package from the AppExchange that integrates your third-party product with Salesforce. Contact Center Platform:- Nice-In-Contact, Twilio Flex, Amazon Connect CTI, Vonage Contact Center, Five9 Cloud Contact, Consilium UniAgent CTI and etc.
2. Create a Call Center Definition File?: Definition file is a XML file that specifies some setting that help define a call center in Salesforce for a particular third-party CTI system. A call center definition file specifies a set of fields and values that are used to define a call center in Salesforce for particular CTI System.
3. Add the Phone Utility to your Console?: Add the phone utility to the default Lightning Service console app. Softphone utilities let your lightning console users make call directly from Salesforce. Softphone layout helps what action need to taken when call will be received for any customer.
4. Add Selected User to You call center?: Add user to specific call center. Skill based routing can be done in contact center.

Benefits Of CTI

• With CTI, No phone are needed
• Call center agents can use advanced phone controls directly from there computes.
• Skill based routing: Technologies such as automatic call distributor and Interactive voice response can be utilized with CTI.
• As calls come in a pop-up is displayed on agents unified desktop, showing custom details.
• Call monitoring and recording function give management insight into how employees are performing and how customers are being helped.
• Agents can use method like power dialing, auto-dialing and click to call to make outgoing call with ease.

Call Center Terminology

Softphone :- An on-screen phone from which you can make and receive calls.

Call Center :- A Salesforce feature that integrates Salesforce with call systems built by developers or partners.

Open CTI :- A JavaScript API that lets developers or partners build cloud-based call systems for use with Salesforce’s Call Center. Since Open CTI is browser and platform agnostic, support agents can make calls on any browser and platform of their choice. Support agents can place a call with Microsoft? Internet Explorer?, Mozilla? Firefox?, Apple? Safari?, or Google Chrome? on Mac, Linux, or Windows. They can use the technologies?they?like. Awesome!