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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Interact Software

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Interact's employee experience platform consolidates fragmented workplace communications into a centralized system with the goal of increasing engagement across global enterprises. The platform delivers targeted content across mobile, email, and digital signage. Key features include AI-powered personalization, built-in analytics tracking engagement metrics, and community-building tools. Unlike general intranet solutions, Interact specializes exclusively in employee experience optimized for…N/A

    Microsoft Viva Engage

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Viva Engage, formerly Yammer, is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups.

    $24

    per year per user

    Workplace from Meta (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AWorkplace was a business communication tool from Meta with features like Live Video and Groups, that connected employees. Its discontinuation began in August of 2025, and by June 2026 a full shutdown is anticipated.N/A
    Pricing
    Interact SoftwareMicrosoft Viva EngageWorkplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities
    $24
    per year per user
    Microsoft Viva Suite
    $144
    per year per user
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Interact SoftwareMicrosoft Viva EngageWorkplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMicrosoft Viva Engage is also available in some Microsoft 365 packages.
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    Community Pulse
    Interact SoftwareMicrosoft Viva EngageWorkplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Interact Software
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Viva Engage
    Yammer's biggest competition is definitely Workplace by Facebook. Both provide a "post, like, share" social network experience adapted to an enterprise paradigm. Both provide real-time chat on top of that to drive collaboration. Both have lightweight content management to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Viva Engage
    Microsoft Yammer was chosen my our management team over Workplace by Facebook due to its integration with Microsoft Office and Outlook which are also coming from Microsoft. Yammer integrates smoothly with all Microsoft softwares, including skype making creating meetings, meets …
    Incentivized
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Workplace from Meta just had better features and better support. Their features were released much earlier than Yammer - making innovation top of mind for the company.
    Incentivized
    Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    I think that Workplace facebook is more intuitive for users than Slack or Yammer, it allows you to create groups and send information to everyone in a cleaner and more accessible way, as well as having more functionalities. In the case of Telegram, the functionality is more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    The adoption is over 300% for Workplace by Facebook.
    Incentivized
    Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Facebook is a familiar product, and Yammer wasn't able to match up in the potential uses, such as live video and showcasing albums, etc.
    Incentivized
    Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Several software solutions were explored and tested before Workplace. While Slack, Yammer, and Skype offered the ability to collaborate on a project and have in-the-moment conversations, there was a realization that much more was needed to create a truly collaborative culture. …
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Interact SoftwareMicrosoft Viva EngageWorkplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Interact Software and Microsoft Viva Engage and Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Feature
    Interact Software
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    8.7
    46 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Task Management00 Ratings9.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.623 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.843 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.343 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Interact Software and Microsoft Viva Engage and Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Feature
    Interact Software
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    8.6
    49 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Chat00 Ratings9.444 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.349 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.748 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings9.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings9.338 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings7.314 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings6.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Interact Software and Microsoft Viva Engage and Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Feature
    Interact Software
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    9.1
    42 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings9.728 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings9.436 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings9.135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings9.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.433 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.528 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Interact SoftwareMicrosoft Viva EngageWorkplace from Meta (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (59 ratings)
    7.8
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.4
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Interact Software
    Great for social media quizzes, shopping guides, lead qualification, progressive profiling, and any application where asking a series of questions can be used to gain a better understanding of customers and contacts.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Yammer is great when you have a company culture that encourages friendly collaboration and communication. It can be a great supplement (but certainly not a substitute) for bonding and sharing ideas and thoughts. Certain channels can be really successful, too, like a channel where people can post dog pictures or something fun like that!
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Well suited: - leadership communication. When our CEO posts a video to all company - it always gets the highest engagement - recognition/achievements posts - live streams for education, knowledge sharing - we are a company of 12000 associates and there is no other corporate channel for us to gather more than 500 people in one place. Less appropriate: - sharing some very targetted messages - it's impossible to do at Workplace without creating a group. So we use email channel for such targetted communications - instant communication like in a chat (probably it's less appropriate in our specific case because we use MS Teams for such quick communication instead of WP chats)
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Interact Software
    • The system was particularly useful during the coronavirus pandemic as it helped foster communication between colleagues and allowed us to create various fun and interactive morale-boosting activities.
    • The service desk is responsive and Interact is quick to point out any service issues.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Providing a platform for social news in the company where "bottom up" topics can percolate freely across department
    • Social networking across the company where folks can divide their work into topics instead of teams
    • Basic collaboration within a group including document sharing with ability to pin documents to a team
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Bring groups of people together to share info, stories, updates, etc.
    • The chat app is pretty decent.
    • Workplace Live is a good large-group meeting broadcast platform.
    • It's pretty intuitive to use for anyone who's used Facebook.
    • It provides different levels of "security" for groups, allowing you to have open, closed, and "secret" groups.
    • It's easy to paste images into your posts and comments, without having to necessarily go through the process of saving an image as a file, etc.
    • It has search capabilities for finding old information.
    • It's available for both desktop/laptop and mobile devices.
    • It's secured to allow only those within the company to see company-related info (but it also has a few inter-company groups, which can be useful, too).
    • Workplace Chat has the ability to set it to Do Not Disturb.
    • You can set notifications, including email notifications, if you want to be alerted to new activity in your groups, etc.
    • You can use Markdown to format your text
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Interact Software
    • Payment steps
    • Pipedrive integration
    • Google tag manager integration
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Although the social enterprise network works very well, there is room for some slight improvement - such as the ability to attract users. By being part of the Microsoft Office Suite, it is offered as an "add-on" and many overlook it and see it as unnecessary at first. It would be smart for Microsoft to sell it as its own product so it could gather more popularity as a "social network".
    • Giving an option to filter results could be better as well as giving an option to turn off the "recent activity" bar on the home page.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • It would be helpful if a review confirmation checkbox was able to be placed by files that needed to be read or reviewed. Along the same line, approve, review again, etc. would be helpful checkboxes to add by files, proposals.
    • The layout is clean but suffers a bit from the center column width with two sidebars and a lot of empty space. It almost looks like a going out of business sale retail store where you notice the empty shelves. Workplace feels a bit bare at times. I think some good design modifications can help. Now on mobile, it is a great layout. I am addressing specifically the desktop browser login.
    • An admin control dashboard would be really effective and even more so with more users on the platform.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft is dedicated to continual improvement on Yammer. They realize the value that Yammer brings to the table with their clients. In the short time that we have had Yammer implemented, we are just now beginning to see the strong impact it has on becoming more effective and efficient around collaboration.
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
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    Usability
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Overall easy to use and intuitive, although limited in the possibility to personalize layout and look & feel of a site. Some functionalities are not easy to use, like document editing, but some others are quick and effective (posts and tagging above all). Performance and responsiveness of the Yammer site is typically acceptable, in my experience.
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
    Having to download multiple apps just to use the tool is very cumbersome. Facebook would have make this better by wrapping it in as a main feature within their app, but having to use multiple apps to see discussions and walls is so frustrating.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Very available
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    Discontinued Products
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    Performance
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It's a simple product but it does provide value.
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    We have never had to use the support for Yammer. The tool works well and we have not come across any bugs. User Interface is simple and easy to use, similar to other forum type products, thereby removing the need for any extensive training. Team members are invited in and immediately are able to start using the tool.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Workplace by Facebook is an excellent fit in respect of support and documentation. It has excellent tutorials and documentation, as well. The UI and UX are already great as it is developed and maintained by Facebook, so most of the times, there is no need for any support or documentation.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The training that Microsoft provides is very generic training for Yammer. I like the fact the training is short and easy to understand
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    Discontinued Products
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    Implementation Rating
    Interact Software
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    We organically implemented the product
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    Alternatives Considered
    Interact Software
    Interact is great for basic integrated quizzes and forms. The other tools are much more robust in terms of mobile friendliness, integrated payment steps, file upload, Google Tag Manager integration (track and segment via your favorite marketing automation platform), etc. Typeform is a much more robust platform.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Microsoft
    Our team briefly used Salesforce.com's Chatter product before switching over to Yammer in 2012. While Chatter is essentially the same product as Yammer, it left much to be desired. Chatter's design was (and remains) clunky and difficult to navigate. Yammer is a simple, easy-to-use product that offers similar functionality as Salesforce's Chatter.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
    Workplace by Facebook is so much more than just a project management tool like Basecamp or Slack. The ability to disseminate information to employees is easier and better with Workplace by Facebook. It can also be used for informal messaging and sharing of information. It combines the best features of both with the same look and feel as Facebook.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Interact Software
    • In my very particular opinion, we can say that this tool has not generated any negative aspect for us, so we are comfortable.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • My company is pleased with the positive impact Yammer has created departmentally and on an individual basis with work flow efficiency.
    • Adversely, most old and new employees are more familiar with SharePoint, causing the company to pay for training for all current and incoming employees.
    • As Yammer becomes more widely used, the need for training may diminish, which is where we will see our return on investment, as the product clearly provides a more effective form of file sharing and communication between employees and their department.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • We can meet the project times, that with the communication in real time.
    • We provide solutions to our suppliers in a reliable and efficient manner.
    • When a business can save time and at the same time respond to the demands of customers, this translates into greater market capture of action for the company.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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