
If you’ve been around more than one CTI rollout, you already know the pattern: the phones “work,” but reporting is unreliable, routing rules live in a vendor UI, and no one is quite sure where recordings and call data actually live. When you strip away branding, most of those problems are not feature issues. They’re architectural. Specifically: is Salesforce the system of record for telephony, or just a place where a CTI connector drops some activity logs? That is the real difference between native and non-native CTI. 1. How to spot a non-native Salesforce CTI Often before definitions, it helps to look at the symptoms. These are the red flags I see when CTI lives “next to” Salesforce instead of in it: If two or three of those are true in your org, you are operating on a non-native CTI architecture, even if the product markets itself as “for Salesforce.” 2. Two very different CTI architectures At a high level, there are only two real CTI models in Salesforce 2.1 Non-native (integrated) Salesforce CTI Salesforce is a consumer of CTI data, not the place where telephony logic lives. 2.2 Native CTI inside Salesforce: one console, consistent UX Here, Salesforce is











