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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.
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December 20, 2022
Yammer is great!
We struggle in a remote posture to get to know each other in a friendly and meaningful way. We use Yammer internally to get to know each other, and share funny pictures, recipes, and other light communications that don't require an email. It's a great way to get to know people in a nice and friendly way!
- Comments and reactions.
- Encourages participation.
- Light and easy to use.
- People can dread using it.
- Lack of comfort in sharing personal info.
- Can be burdensome.
December 08, 2022
Thank you!!!!
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Our organization uses Yammer for both impromptu meetings and scheduled conference calls. The ease and accountability with which every conversation can be documented and understood are immense. It is a great tool for sharing ideas and information within our organization. We will continue to utilize Yammer for the foreseeable future. Thank you.
- Clear documented conversations.
- Easy to connect with coworkers.
- Consistent platform performance.
- Not all external partners have this platform.
- Some users are turned off by the social-media-like interface.
September 08, 2022
Professional fun place
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Our company has been using this product as it encourages employees to not be distracted by other social networks. It keeps the work and social activities to be going in hand within the organization. It helps the employees to be in a better space. The employees are free to share either professional or personal posts over the network and it brings a more relaxing experience to the employees and team meats. it also helps to have better communication with other teams as well.
- Cross app communication
- dynamic communication
- Activity trackers
- Cross app communication UI
- Better time management using more detailed time stamps
- Work on UX
April 29, 2022
Yammer - Great if it's the only tool you use.
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
- 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
May 21, 2021
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Score 8 out of 10
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MS Yammer is currently utilized at my organization to ease interdepartmental communications between various users.
The ease of use affords users to keep their respective email inboxes a bit cleaner. Yammer has also been utilized as a social medium to keep users apprised of events and updates in other departments across the country.
The ease of use affords users to keep their respective email inboxes a bit cleaner. Yammer has also been utilized as a social medium to keep users apprised of events and updates in other departments across the country.
- User interface.
- Ease of use.
- Adaptability.
- Lack of integration with other MS Office.
October 10, 2019
Microsoft Yammer - Social Networking for the Enterprise
Yammer is our hub for social networking within the company, allowing for sharing of various internal news from sales team wins through to birthdays. We are broken up into various groups from "Product Q&A" to "Animals" ensuring there is an open forum for news and discussion across the company.
- 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
- User experience in Yammer, while improving on mobile, has been stagnant for years - it's the same product since 2014
- Integration with the other O365 features - such as O365 groups - is completely lacking
- It competes with other Microsoft products (Microsoft Teams, Kaizala) for collaboration tools
We used Yammer for departmental communication and collaboration. It helped us organize related project ideas and notify each other of changes. Now Microsoft Teams has mostly replaced the work we used to do in Yammer.
- Social tagging
- Organization of project ideas
- File sharing
- Seems less robust than Microsoft Teams
- One more communication tool to use
- Notifications don’t always work
October 09, 2019
Lots to Yammer on about
Yammer is used across the enterprise - Both Unum employees, Colonial Life's parent company, and Colonial Life employees use Yammer to engage with one another in a more casual setting. Rather than bombarding inboxes with emails, employees post on Yammer for company events, congratulations and relevant life updates. Groups are also formed for specific committees and resource groups. Yammer is used for a hub of updates and keeping people in the loop without having to read lengthy emails.
- Keeping employees connected across the enterprise
- The use of gifs and images
- Private message option
- I think the news feed should be updated chronologically, not by post "relevance" like many other social channels do now
October 04, 2019
Good collaboration/communication/social media tool for your enterprise if you're up to it.
We are in the very early stages of implementation and have yet to decide to do it. Until recently, data for Yammer was only stored in the USA which was a nogo for us as a European company. For the initial testing/proof of concept we are doing the collaboration and communication features are good but we haven't decided on it yet.
- Communication on Yammer is great.
- Being an enterprise social media tool, it is only valuable if you actually want that for your company.
- There is a learning curve for using Yammer. It is not as straight forward as I expected.
- I suspect when a lot of people use it, it can become hard to keep up on all of it.
September 23, 2019
It’s Yammer Time!
For teams to share successes and recognition, organize company events, and dialogue on best practices across the organization. From entry-level to the executive level, everyone goes to Yammer for help, to help others, and to get the latest company information. We also run remote groups and social events through Yammer.
- Easy to navigate
- Fun to comment/interact
- Focused on uniting individuals
- Reactions instead of just likes.
- Track sub-threads more clearly.
Yammer is used throughout many (not all) departments within my organization. Our company is considered a printing manufacturer, digital marketing agency, and marketing solutions partner. Yammer is primarily used within our corporate teams - and is primarily used for breaking down communication barriers between departments. My department most often uses Yammer in order to create collaborative content for other employees across different locations in the company. I am a corporate trainee in a rotational role - and I often use Yammer in order to keep myself updated with other members of my team. Yammer offers a way to collaborate within a tool that is modeled strongly after other social networking platforms. For a group of trainees that are in a younger demographic, Yammer works really well for quickly understanding the tool. I often use Yammer in order to message other trainees, respond to polls, and network across our company. I have really enjoyed Yammer and view it more as a communication tool for a smaller to mid-sized group of individuals.
- Yammer is modeled after the social-networking generation. The platform does a great job of being user-friendly with efficient communication.
- Yammer is extremely easy to use. End-user training should be relatively straight-forward.
- Very robust networking opportunities within an organization.
- As it is modeled after a social-networking tool, Yammer runs the risk of straying too far from a business productivity tool.
- Layout customization is rather limited. There are other tools that offer more company-customization more effectively.
- Sharing and editing documents have quite a few limitations. There are many other online editors that can do work more efficiently and effectively.
February 16, 2019
Yammer: far from a spammer
It is used company-wide for announcements and building smaller communities.
- User-friendly social media within the company
- Fosters the formation of communities across the company
- Easy to push out announcements without spamming inboxes
- Sometimes it is not easy to search for past posts
- Can be perceived as more for fun rather than corporate
October 12, 2018
Yet another "space" across the organization
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"
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
- UI is old
- UX is not perfect
- Mobile app is not user friendly
August 02, 2018
Yappin on Yammer
We used it as a tool to help our department keep up to date with ongoing daily operations. It replaced the daily stand up for us predominately, and also served as a great way to quickly get out information to a large group of people.
- Sharing Office365 content with others
- Communicating with others in our group
- Communicating with the entire organization
- More powerful search/filtering would be nice
July 19, 2018
Yammer - Easy collaboration for large and small
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
- 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)
June 11, 2018
Yammer - Great communication tool
We are using as a social media page for internal teammates. to help express themselves. Something similar like FB but only within the company. Helps build relationships and rapport within the company, from CEO to the front-line teammate, we can communicate.
- Great Social media front page
- Messaging tool is great
- Great update features and keeping everything up to speed
- Can be an overload of updates, everything does pop and can be somewhat distracting if you are working and trying to be productive
- Better interface, not bad but does have the opportunity
June 06, 2018
The best social network to share jobs in the company
The company uses Yammer as a social network only in some departments that are involved, to be able to share projects and among all the people involved to share the experience, solutions to problems if they arise or simply to give opinions about it.
- It works to find solutions quickly to problems that arise in a project or work that is performed
- The people involved can comment and give opinions to projects and shared documents
- All the work team that is involved can be kept informed
- As it is very similar to the social networks that are currently used, it is very easy to use for all users
- It helps you reduce time in those meetings later and are not boring as the conversations are more interactive through Yammer
- Without an internet connection, you can not have interaction with other co-workers
- Only used if you have Office 365
- Many companies install it and do not use it because it seems unhelpful
Our organization uses Yammer to broadcast team updates, news, and content over traditional email blasting. Occasionally, Yammer is often used for company announcements over posts on SharePoint and email.
- Very easy to use interface that allows nontechnical and technical users to communicate and collaborate.
- Breaks out team groups for sub threads very well.
- Allows for an effective interface to see recent updates from people you follow and or updates from groups you are in.
- It seems that Yammer and MS Teams could be integrated as both platforms overlap in many areas.
- Yammer seems to try to copy a lot of other social network platforms with buttons to like content. This seems irrelevant in the corporate world.
April 26, 2018
Reduces email load
We use Microsoft Yammer as an informal social network in which we share all those news and industry developments that are "kind of relevant" but not super important and/or urgent. There is also a fun component in it. Microsoft Yammer is used across the entire organization but there is an insular component in a sense that different teams have their own channels and create rooms for their own communication needs
- Safe, secure, social network for employees to share relevant content
- Declutter email
- A dedicated avenue with well understood tools (likes, comments, etc)
- One more feed to consume
- Needs to reach critical mass to be useful
- Only as good as its content
March 28, 2018
Weird Name, Great Tool!
We use Yammer across the whole organization. It's a great tool used by a variety of teams, departments and niche interest groups to share information and build company culture. One of the great problems it solves for us is knowledge retention and sharing across the globe. If someone reads a great article or watches an impactful webinar, they are able to share it for all to see. When working on specific teams, Yammer is a great way to communicate with team members and collaborate on project work or overall team objectives.
- Content sharing (across all media types)
- User notifications and private messaging
- Group collaboration and social elements (likes, shares, conversation threads, etc.)
- Some of the GIF functionality is slow, but this is not a heavily used feature in our company.
- Discovering new groups or conversation threads can be a challenge unless you know exactly what you are looking for. "Browsing" can be difficult.
March 21, 2018
Review for Yammer
Yammer is used at organization level. We use this tool to socialize, collaborate, celebrate, share personal/company event with people in other offices. It's widely accepted and used within our organization that it almost feels like a Facebook page for Elekta. I always start my day with reading the Yammer page as people across company share lots of content around the globe.
- It provides the functionality of creating groups and accessing private or publicly
- It provides access to private content
- It allows posting of media and content. Whoever has access to the posted content can like, share and comment on the post.
- Yammer could have a more fancy UI.
March 16, 2018
Yammer is OK for after work get togethers
We use Yammer as a localized social network for outside of work activities: volunteering, buying/selling home items, hobbies, etc.
- Very useful for selling items. I've listed lots of home goods.
- I had difficulty deleting posts after a sale was completed. The original picture and description still showed up in my personal feed. not sure if it was removed from the world at large or not, but it was a minor hassle just to wonder that.
October 13, 2017
Great collaboration tool
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Yammer is used for the whole organisation as our enterprise social tool. It is used for collaboration among the teams, cross BUs, internal communication & collaboration with partners in external networks.
- Mobile app has great UX
- What's new feature is great to keep up
- Recommendations for relevant groups & call conversions
- Nothing I see as a problem
September 11, 2017
Yammer on Yammer
Microsoft Yammer is being used by a small startup company that I freelance for as a way for all of us to engage and communicate with an easy to follow user interface system that drastically reduces communication errors.
- The ability to more easily share and connect with colleagues.
- Being able to join select groups helps streamline communication.
- It was very user-friendly and felt like I could easily translate skills attained from Facebook to understand Yammer.
- Unfortunately, Yammer has been a bit of a distraction at work as it resembles the social media sites that have been blocked.
- My inbox gets clogged with notifications.
- Sometimes the group chats get off topic and it is hard to get back on track.
August 16, 2017
Interesting Platform for Project Sharing & Updating
In our organization, we use it mainly for project sharing and all project updates are shared on Yammer. Other members in the organization are also allowed to make comments, share ideas regarding that particular project or have access to the project they are following. It is like a real time social media site of the project where everything is updated at a fast pace. Yammer is like a social media platform but for working purposes.
- Project sharing and updates: status updates now can be shared easier and faster than ever. No more email writing and attachments with formal writings. It is now as easy as it is to update your Facebook status.
- Interactive platform: members across our organization can interact and share their updates regarding to a particular project or issue that has a high impact / effect on the organization.
- Alternative way to communicate: Our organization has an additional way to communicate in case email does not work as it should be. This will prevent any delay in communication.
- Looking for files that you have posted is harder and must be used with Microsoft Sharepoint.
- Mobile app is not friendly for new users; it has a complex interface that should not be there for a social app
- Email notifications from Yammer are annoying sometimes without clear instructions on how to turn that off