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Microsoft Yammer

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What is Microsoft Yammer?

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…

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What is Microsoft Yammer?

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…

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Product Demos

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

5.5
Avg 7.7

Communication

Features that allow team members to communicate about collaborative projects and keep each other informed of their opinions and progress.

8.1
Avg 8.0

File Sharing & Management

Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.

6.7
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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Reviewers rate Internal knowledgebase highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Microsoft Yammer are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Yammer - Easy collaboration for large and small

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 19, 2018
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
1 year of experience
I use Microsoft Yammer as part of a non-profit technical consortium that our organization is a member of. It is used to collaborate between various working groups for users in many different similar organizations. Users can post questions in a variety of groups organized by topic, track responses, and get alerts to topics or threads of interest.
  • Organizing users into groups and providing tools to those groups
  • Social networking with other users within the organization/network
  • Excellent notification options (e-mail, etc)
  • Clean, easy-to-understand user interface
Cons
  • Can be difficult to get phone support if there are questions
  • Some of the tools are not quite as feature-rich as competitor products
  • Integration with Office 365 suite can be a little confusing because there is feature overlap (for example, Yammer vs Teams, or Yammer vs Sharepoint)
Yammer is easy to use and set up because it comes as part of the Office 365 suite of tools from Microsoft. It's possible to enable and set up within a few hours. The hardest part is to figure out how to use it within an organization with access to all of the other Office 365 tools provided by Microsoft. Organizations will need to devise a clear strategy and communicate to users so they know when to use Yammer and when to use other MS collaboration tools like Teams, Groups, or SharePoint.

Yet another "space" across the organization

Rating: 3 out of 10
October 12, 2018
IP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
2 years of experience
As a part of Microsoft 365 subscription Yammer is using across the whole organization.
Marketing, HR and some other departments are not into another "team messagers", so through Yammer all departments can be notified with a important / interesting information. Yammer provides an effective way of communication in both small and large groups of people at one time. It's kinda like a company's "Facebook"
  • Office365 content is shared with others
  • Communication across the whole organization
  • Acccess to private content
  • Outlook integration
Cons
  • UI is old
  • UX is not perfect
  • Mobile app is not user friendly
It has no impact on staff performance and even evades our attention. Tech staff is using different apps, so this is yet another messager for them - almost total ignorance of using this solution.

Yammer - Great if it's the only tool you use.

Rating: 3 out of 10
April 29, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
10 years of experience
Yammer is implemented at our institution as another avenue for employees to connect and create engagement. This was implemented prior to the 2020 pandemic but has been accelerated in its use since.
  • It integrates into Office 365
  • It provides company-wide connection on one platform
  • It has mobile and desktop support
Cons
  • It competes with tools present in other Office 365 products
  • While integrated, it isn't intuitively accessible from multiple points in the ecosystem
  • Other products achieve Yammer's outcomes in better ways
If you are an organization that does not allow social integrations to your technology tools, Yammer provides a good option that allows for some engagement activities while limiting exposure to tools outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Great Communication Tool with Yammer.

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 04, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
3 years of experience
With the purchase of Office 365 Essentials, users can communicate using Yammer with other users for quick questions.
  • Integrates with other Office products
  • Small amount of computer resources
Cons
  • I enjoy using Yammer for work communications. I really don't have any improvements that I can think of.
Small company setting where people know each other. If it is a large corporation, it could get annoying with too many people sending messages to each other.

Microsoft Yammer spurs collaboration and networking across our organization

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 24, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
1 year of experience
My entire organization adopted Microsoft Yammer as a part of our shift to using the new suite of Office 365 applications exclusively. Microsoft Yammer has helped to streamline communication and collaboration across different organizations and serves as one of the primary ways that people connect on a range of projects, programs, and other initiatives. In addition, associates use the tool for discussion around general topics, shared interests, and to ask questions.
  • I enjoy being able to see an entire conversation thread between associates and that those comments and responses found a most useful filter to the top of a conversation.
  • I like the additional features and functionality you can leverage within Yammer such as "Announcements" and how well Yammer groups integrate with respective SharePoint sites it might be associated with.
  • Yammer is very easy to navigate and is user-friendly, making it easy to scale to new users who are not familiar with the platform.
Cons
  • While Yammer is easy to use overall, it does have some quirks and can be a little limiting in what you can do within the app itself.
Yammer helps spur collaboration and networking across our entire organization. We have associates that work at several locations across the globe so Yammer serves an important function in bridging the distance between people. Microsoft Yammer is thus well-suited to bring different groups of stakeholders across different organizations and locations together to collaborate around shared initiatives or interests.
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