What is CloudCTI?
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) software connects your business phone system and your contact database (CRM or ERP-applications). Thanks to this technology, you can set up a call from any application on your desktop with a single key press. In addition, contact info is presented on incoming calls and with one mouse click the related contact record pops up. CloudCTI only requires lightweight desktop software. It does not need special hardware or a locally installed server. Therefore, it can be set up in minutes and is easy to try.
Features
Many businesses are missing out on the features that Computer Telephony Integration can offer:
- Click-to-Dial. Dialing with a single key press is a very convenient feature, which saves time and prevents mistakes. This feature is familiar on mobile phones, but still lacks when we are working with our office desk phone.
- Caller Recognition and Contact Screen Pop. To recognize a calling contact and instantly show the most relevant info is an all-important feature. Even more so, the possibility to ‘pop’ the related contact screen within your own CRM application with one click, while the phone is still ringing.
Benefits
Over time, the effects of these features accumulate and bring significant benefits to your business such as:
- Efficiency. You can setup a call much faster if you just have to click the contact on your screen. Especially with longer numbers you look at the number, check the number your phone display shows and then look at the screen again. To concentrate on dialing the correct number takes time. Accidently dialing a wrong number takes even more. If you can click to dial, you will never make a mistake again. And the time that is saved, you will be glad to use differently.
- Customer friendliness. Customers will prefer a supplier that can help them quickly and efficiently. Asking for long customer-id code, typing it in, again making a human error every now and then is not optimal. It is even worse if you transfer the call to a colleague with another department and the customer has to repeat the process. With automatic customer recognition and screen-pop a customer with never have to endure this nonsense again.
- Business Process improvement. Making mistakes is only human. Dialing a wrong number is only a nuisance. The unnoticed misidentification of a caller, however, can be costly. If a package was sent to the wrong Johnson family – quickly looked up by hand – because there are actually two Johnson families living on Main Street. If a new contact’s phone number is entered into the CRM application with a typo making it impossible or time consuming to reach that person by phone. Preventing the cost of such mistakes can potentially make a huge difference over time.
- Employee satisfaction. People prefer purposeful activities that contribute to their goals. They enjoy making calls with a single key press and looking up contacts with a mouse click because less of their time is wasted on senseless number copying. Even if you only make one phone call per day, the knowledge that doing it has been made easy forever can be quite satisfactory.
It works with any CRM or ERP application, including yours
CloudCTI implements a large number of technologies that are used to connect with CRM and ERP applications. For a long list of standardly supported applications, our cleverly devised CTI Wizard automatically selects the appropriate technology and sets or detects most of the required settings. The wizard guides you through these steps of configuring the connection to your application and even enables users to connect to unusual, made-to-measure, bespoke, and branch specific applications. This makes the whole process quick and easy. Just try it yourself!