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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

5.6
Avg 7.8

Communication

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

7.6
Avg 8.0

File Sharing & Management

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

5.4
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 8.9.

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 - Business use evaluation

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 04, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
2 years of experience
Whole business used Microsoft Yammer to address the most effective way to manage communications in the business and to also act as a central data access point.
  • Great way to manage an internal contact directory.
  • Permissioned access to sensitive information/groups.
  • Great comms tool with discussions threads and social interaction interface which is user friendly.
  • Useful central storage solution for document sharing.
Cons
  • Mobile app not very user friendly.
See value use cases ["Pros"] in relation to centralised comms, restricted access and file sharing.

Yammer Makes the World Go Round

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 30, 2022
DG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
1 year of experience
Yammer has been at Manhattan Associates for over 2 years. It is used across the globe and across all departments so that we can work more effectively and efficiently. Key initiatve to break down silos, help departments work together, find answers when we don't always know who to ask.
  • Easy to set up, easy to work with, each to use. Not much of a learning curve, which makes it easy to get rolling in your organization.
  • Works with text, photos, videos, files.
  • In the cloud, and on mobile.
Cons
  • Would be helpful to edit a post once it's been published (correcting typos, adding a few more sentences rather than start another post)
  • Mobile app is good, but not as robust of an experience with critical needs such as "search" and accessing Yammer Notes
  • When files are uploaded, there is no way to organize/view them say by alphabetical title, author, etc.
Well suited to have one place for many people to collaborate and contribute. Project teams can use it as a online repository, hold discussions that people can get to on their time, reduce the need for distribution list email blasts, give public praise to team members.

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.

Yammer is the way to go!

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 19, 2015
VT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
1 year of experience
Yammer is being used throughout our entire company.

Yammer gives us the ability to break down communication silos throughout our organizations and allow everyone to have a 'voice' whether you are in upper management or on the production floor. Yammer also gives us the ability to collaborate anytime, anywhere through their easy to use mobile apps.
  • Yammer offers a mobile app. This gives our employees an opportunity to review documents and collaborate on those documents anywhere at anytime.
  • Yammer provides a user interface that is very easy to use. Not only is the interface easy to use, but it is very similar to Facebook. Therefore, there is very little training that needs to occur with the user population.
  • Yammer offers an excellent user community called the YCN (Yammer Community Network). Once you become a member of this network, you can ask any question and a response is delivered within minutes. This is especially valuable when you may not understand certain features/functionality that Microsoft has delivered. The community has experts that are extremely helpful.
Cons
  • An area of opportunity is within the Yammer analytics. Yammer does offer a dashboard type view for basic analytics, but this needs to be improved upon in order for companies to obtain better usage statistics.
  • Another opportunity for improvement is with the mobile apps. While Microsoft is continuing to make improvements within the mobile environment, certain functionality can only be performed within the browser.
I can't think of a specific scenario where Yammer would not be beneficial. In order to be successful in deploying Yammer, one recommendation would be to utilize Microsoft's CSM (Customer Service Managers). They were instrumental in their valuable advice/suggestions and rollout of Yammer on a global basis. The CSM's were willing to work with our core team on a bi-weekly basis and perform site visits on specific occasions in order to make sure our implementation was a success.

Yammer on Yammer

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 11, 2017
SB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Yammer
1 year of experience
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.
Cons
  • 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.
This is incredibly well suited if you are working on multiple projects with multiple triads or diads of people and have to have a conversation style record of what is happening. It would be less appropriate if you are not in a setting that requires and benefits from increased communication flow with colleagues.
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