In Forrester's 49-criteria evaluation of social relationship platform (SRP) vendors, we identified the eight most significant vendors — Adobe, Hearsay Social, salesforce.com's Buddy Media, Shoutlet, Socialware, Spredfast, Sprinklr, and Syncapse — in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other; it is designed to help interactive marketing professionals select the right partner to manage their activities on public social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.