Microsoft Yammer vs. Starmind

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Yammer
Score 6.9 out of 10
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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
Starmind
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Starmind in Zurich offers their knowledge sharing platform, featuring augmented Intelligence allowing team members, or employees across departments and offices, to tap into the collective human intelligence in an organization, in real-time.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft YammerStarmind
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft YammerStarmind
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Microsoft YammerStarmind
Top Pros
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Features
Microsoft YammerStarmind
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Yammer
5.6
41 Ratings
32% below category average
Starmind
-
Ratings
Task Management6.225 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.113 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling3.419 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation2.521 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access7.939 Ratings00 Ratings
Search7.939 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools4.323 Ratings00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Yammer
7.6
44 Ratings
5% below category average
Starmind
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Chat8.140 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications7.244 Ratings00 Ratings
Discussions8.243 Ratings00 Ratings
Surveys6.134 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase8.933 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting7.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts6.713 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook8.632 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Yammer
5.4
37 Ratings
38% below category average
Starmind
-
Ratings
Versioning7.025 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files5.532 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files4.730 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration2.131 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control3.431 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced security features5.528 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync7.224 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft YammerStarmind
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(54 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.9
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft YammerStarmind
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Starmind
Shared knowledge is essential to widely distribute knowledge among the various sectors of the company. Knowledge is power and we have discovered this with Starmind, where we are all capable of solving different problems without the need to work in a certain sector or not.
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Pros
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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Starmind
  • Anonymous requests, with fast and totally efficient results, which is amazing, most of the time he finds the person trained to solve certain problems.
  • The search system has filters that help us prioritize what we are really looking for, in this way the search is much more efficient.
  • Collaborative tools undoubtedly help us to solve communication problems, streamline work processes and achieve work success in carrying out our projects.
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Cons
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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Starmind
  • Collaborative tools undoubtedly help us to solve communication problems, streamline work processes and achieve work success in carrying out our projects.
  • I'm still not familiar with its interface in a comfortable way. It seems to me that there are functions whose potential can be exploited more but they are not visual, instead there are many others that can get in the way a little in the daily use of the platform.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Starmind
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Usability
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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Starmind
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
Very available
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Starmind
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Performance
Microsoft
It's a simple product but it does provide value.
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Starmind
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Support Rating
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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Starmind
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Online Training
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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Starmind
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
We organically implemented the product
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Starmind
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Alternatives Considered
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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Starmind
Bloomfire is an excellent tool, it provides multiple similar features, these platforms being intelligent in the search for shared knowledge, however, Starmind seems to me to have better search options and interaction actions between users.
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Return on Investment
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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Starmind
  • The effective search for the right person to attend specific commercial projects has allowed us to hit the target, since we are exploiting the potential of each of the company's personnel regardless of the department to which they belong, we diversify, learn and adapt to changes, in favor of always achieving the proposed objectives and achieving better performance and work efficiency.
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