Microsoft Teams vs. Microsoft Yammer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Teams
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$5
per month
Microsoft Yammer
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Yammer is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making it an example of enterprise social software. It originally launched as an enterprise microblogging service and now has applications on several different operating systems and devices. The company was acquired by Microsoft in 2012.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Yammer
Editions & Modules
Free
$0.00
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$5.00
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$12.50
per user/per month
Office 365 E3
$20.00
per user/per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Yammer
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for non profit organizations.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Yammer
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Teams
Chose Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is definitely a strong contender to Slack. For small organizations with small teams, Slack has a clear advantage in term of setup and ease of use. However, for large organizations with dedicated and specialized IT Administrators the task of setting up Microsoft …
Chose Microsoft Teams
I've used both Slack and Teams but think Teams will prevail for companies who embrace Office 365. With Microsoft adding new app integrations and external connections exponentially, it's never been an easier time to transition into a digital workplace. Microsoft introduced a free…
Chose Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams provide a good feature set that matches the commonly used enterprise collaboration tools from multiple vendors. What the Teams product lacks in VoIP support, it makes for in its web conferencing capabilities. Yammer only has a small set of collaboration …
Chose Microsoft Teams
Prefer JIRA Software, easy to document requirements, dev notes, QA notes and share this with anyone who cares about the work. You can also easily plug this into Confluence and create dashboards if you like. JIRA has a great UI and drag and drop functionality is easy for anyone …
Chose Microsoft Teams
Personally, I have used a number of applications similar to Teams for a variety of functions. However, with regard to my current organizational use, I would say my experience with Teams provides a much more well-rounded user experience than Skype for Business. Teams performs …
Chose Microsoft Teams
Prior to adopting Teams, our organization used Slack. I think Teams has made big gains in recent years and now offers essentially the same functionality and services has Slack does. While I enjoyed using Slack, I have not seen a drop off in functionality or usability since …
Microsoft Yammer
Chose Microsoft Yammer
We now use Microsoft Teams for chatting and project communication and it is more effective than Yammer. I do not find a use for Yammer any longer.
Chose Microsoft Yammer
I like how Yammer has functions that are fun and interactive, which can give you much more to do than using Teams or even Microsoft Forms. Yammer helps people feel included and gives people a better sense of how their friends and co-workers are feeling on certain issues. Yammer …
Chose Microsoft Yammer
Yammer is very rudimentary as a broadcast tool and team notification. I has been surpassed in functionality and usefulness by all the other apps listed.
Chose Microsoft Yammer
Yammer is better-suited than MS Teams for quick, informal texts with my colleagues.
Chose Microsoft Yammer
There are few good alternatives to Microsoft Yammer that serve up the same functionality and allow for networking to the same extent. Prior to Yammer, we used an internal tool which was clunky and did not meet our companies needs. Yammer has proven to be much more successful …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Yammer
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Teams
7.2
183 Ratings
9% below category average
Microsoft Yammer
7.8
40 Ratings
1% below category average
Task Management7.5138 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Gantt Charts6.270 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Scheduling7.9154 Ratings8.218 Ratings
Workflow Automation6.795 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Mobile Access8.0175 Ratings7.238 Ratings
Search7.4161 Ratings7.338 Ratings
Visual planning tools6.6112 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Teams
7.7
192 Ratings
4% below category average
Microsoft Yammer
7.8
43 Ratings
3% below category average
Chat8.8191 Ratings8.539 Ratings
Notifications8.0190 Ratings8.343 Ratings
Discussions8.5178 Ratings9.042 Ratings
Surveys7.2105 Ratings7.033 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase7.1118 Ratings7.632 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting7.147 Ratings7.414 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts6.243 Ratings6.613 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook8.8157 Ratings8.332 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Teams
7.4
178 Ratings
9% below category average
Microsoft Yammer
8.4
36 Ratings
3% above category average
Versioning7.1122 Ratings7.025 Ratings
Video files7.5151 Ratings8.631 Ratings
Audio files7.6153 Ratings9.029 Ratings
Document collaboration8.1165 Ratings8.730 Ratings
Access control7.5149 Ratings8.030 Ratings
Advanced security features7.0111 Ratings8.627 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive6.353 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Device sync8.0124 Ratings9.023 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Yammer
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(270 ratings)
7.8
(53 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.0
(9 ratings)
6.9
(10 ratings)
Usability
7.2
(52 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(113 ratings)
7.0
(12 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.2
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
6.9
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Yammer
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Positive: The virtual workspace created for a work team within the same company, for the resemblance of information and communications in one place.Negative: The access for members of a non-profit organization who have external emails from the host but need the same access as an internal person since their volunteer work is part of the very core of the federation.
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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!
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Virtual meetings - ease of set up and execution
  • File sharing! We build channels for projects, and being able to invite only project members is huge!
  • Peer-to-peer communications - being able to "ping" one of my colleagues, either text, video or call-only, on-demand, is what runs our business.
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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
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The feature of notifications in the mobile application could be improved. Sometimes notifications of different teams are not visible and are only visible when the application is opened.
  • It uses lots of computational resources while running and thus, slows down the system sometimes.
  • It allows a few channels per team. The number of channels could be increased for better productivity.
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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.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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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.
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Usability
Microsoft
User experience has been much better than the previous Skype for Business app. It has an easy-to-use interface with persistent chats. The search feature is very fast and useful. MS Teams has mostly focused on Collaboration and team building features which are very useful for organizational communications. Since Teams is accessible from multiple platforms like Laptop, Desktop, Mobile phones, etc it has been very convenient from a Mobility perspective.
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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.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
Rare, but outages do happen
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Microsoft
Very available
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Performance
Microsoft
Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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Microsoft
It's a simple product but it does provide value.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Using Microsoft Teams has resulted in much faster business communications with both co-workers and consultants. There has been little need for support with this software as the interface is very intuitive and the product is overall very well designed. We did encounter an issue with the built-in phone service, however, this was quickly resolved by the support team.
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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.
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Online Training
Microsoft
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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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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Microsoft
We organically implemented the product
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Our company and IT department previously used Skype for our communication needs. Skype was not dependable in my opinion, because it seems each time I used it during a call and/or a meeting, I and several other team members would get disconnected more than once. This caused a great interruption of our meeting, caused team members to have to ask others to repeat themselves and caused a general lack of interest in employee attendance during meetings.
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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.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Microsoft
It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Microsoft
I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • I'm not sure I can point to a specific ROI, but it has improved our ability to communicate and work more effectively together.
  • It's also nice to have records of every interaction, photo, and document that has been shared. Less chance of something completely disappearing.
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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.
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