Private social network SaaS (for integration with Salesforce)

Question

I'm currently investigating SaaS solutions for implementing social network like activity on a client's site, such as activity feeds, message boards, leaderboards, add/delete friends/followers; things like that.

It would need to be able to integrate into the client's current CRM system (Salesforce) as well as their existing site; we don't want a separate site to send users to see their friends' activities and other things like that. Therefore, we need a solution with a robust API we can work with to integrate into our current site.

I've looked at Lithium and SocialEngine; but want to see if there are other options I might be missing.

Answer 1

A nice solution for social network for a private or corporate solution is BlaBlanet Social Network wherein:

• Ability to setup a private directory and satellite nodes for make independent of the rest of networks.

• You can ask or make one issue in the project in GitHub about how to or any feature you will like to have if is a private project they support

• Ability to utilize CalDAV and CardDAV and bridge with a CRM like SugarCRM

You can see a list of their applications here.