Where to start with Salesforce CTI implementations?
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Where to start with Salesforce CTI implementations?

Companies regularly ask how they may integrate incoming calls with Salesforce.  They don’t always look for a complete omnichannel approach yet. But they search for a solution to get customers connected with the right agent and ensuring that the agent has the correct information displayed. So these are talks about how starting off with such…

Using External Routing solution with Salesforce

Using External Routing solution with Salesforce

External routing allows you to use your existing communication platform with Salesforce Omni-channel.  In a ‘pure’ implementation, Salesforce decides which agent should answer an incoming work item.  When you prefer using the decision engine of your existing unified communication platform, External Routing allows you to do so. Why External Routing? Salesforce Omnichannel routing allows to…

Let the Skills be with you

Let the Skills be with you

The goal of Skills-based routing is to get the best available agent answering the incoming question.  The concepts are the same when making a local implementation, but the complexity may rise when implementing skills-based routing over multiple channels, countries and languages. We already described the basic setup in the article: Configuring Skills-based routing in Salesforce. …

Configuring Skills-based routing in Salesforce

Configuring Skills-based routing in Salesforce

As mentioned in our previous article, Salesforce Skills-based routing may get used to route incoming – non-voice – questions to the best-skilled agent.  Based on the data available with the incoming question, a match may get made with the skills of the available agents.  And so, Salesforce will push the question to the agent that…

Why Skills-based routing
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Why Skills-based routing

Skills-based routing is available now for some time in Salesforce.  But, why would you want to make use of it? As a starter, the Salesforce Skills-based routing rules may get used for non-voice channels.  Next to Custom Objects, the following out-of-the-box objects may get used: Cases Leads Orders Messages Chats Incoming or outgoing telephone calls…