Today’s acquisition by Salesforce of Radian6 for an estimated $326 million is a strong statement to the power of social intelligence.

Congrats to the Radian6 team.

Converseon is now the only remaining independent leader in Forrester Wave’s Q3 2010 Listening Platforms report. We continue to believe we remain at the front end of what we expect to be profound growth for the social intelligence space moving forward.  The intersection of “big data,” sentiment analysis and analytics is powerful and is not only becoming the impetus for business redesign, but also a plethora of new products, services and applications. We’re just scraping the surface.

While social CRM is one important use case, our focus will remain on unifying real time monitoring with the deepest level of intelligence together with robust consulting and service offerings to make social data intelligent and actionable across multiple use cases. These investments help drive even more attention and interest to the category. As we say, a rising tide raises all boats.

We’re proud of our industry leadership and of our industry. Congrats again to all involved.