Salesforce supports many Auth Provider out of the box, which can be used as Identity provider. Some of the examples – Facebook, Google, Github, Salesforce, OpenId Connect , Linked In and Janrain.
If you are in need to use Wechat , Yahoo or some other social account like Microsoft, don’t get disappointed. Even if they are not available out of the box as Auth Provider in Salesforce , Salesforce has provided magical box Janrain. Janrain supports vast list of social platform which can be used as Identity provider for your Salesforce instance.
How Janrain is different compared to other SSO solutions for Salesforce
If we configure Identity provider for Salesforce using Single Sign On or Auth Provider, those options will appear on Login Salesforce page as a button (shown in below image).