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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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Recent Reviews

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8 out of 10
December 08, 2022
Our organization uses Yammer for both impromptu meetings and scheduled conference calls. The ease and accountability with which every …
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Professional fun place

9 out of 10
September 08, 2022
Our company has been using this product as it encourages employees to not be distracted by other social networks. It keeps the work and …
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Yammer Review Recap

8 out of 10
May 21, 2021
MS Yammer is currently utilized at my organization to ease interdepartmental communications between various users.
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Popular Features

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  • Discussions (42)
    9.0
    90%
  • Chat (39)
    8.5
    85%
  • Notifications (43)
    8.3
    83%
  • Mobile Access (38)
    7.2
    72%
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Pricing

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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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  • No setup fee

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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

7.8
Avg 7.8

Communication

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

7.8
Avg 8.0

File Sharing & Management

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

8.4
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Microsoft Yammer?

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Microsoft Yammer Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

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.

Atlassian Confluence, Jive, and OpenText Vibe are common alternatives for Microsoft Yammer.

Reviewers rate Discussions and Audio files and Device sync highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Microsoft Yammer are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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FRANCO PIÑERO | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Yammer is used for the general direction of communication, dissemination and information of the company.

It is being used for the fulfillment of the following tasks: issuing of official communications to the staff, establishing communications between the executives of the company, organizing the logistics for the operation of business and personal events, publishing relevant and confidential information. Thanks to Yammer, the company has managed to strengthen the communication among the staff, obtaining favorable results through the optimization of the processes.
  • Transmit information in real time, and fluidly.
  • Encourages the collaboration and spontaneous participation from all, because all users are able to contribute ideas and knowledge.
  • Contributes to the cohesion of all personnel--personally I feel included in the decisions of the company, because my contributions are taken into account.
  • Promotes the initiation of productive communications, the possibility of sharing knowledge and experiences and of creating work teams to meet particular situations.
  • I do not like the communications interface, I think they should improve the image, they should carry out a usability study in order to adapt the programs to different clients.
  • It requires an excellent internet connection so that you can share documents, images or files with a lot of content, being in field work.
  • Must offer a more creative and innovative image with aims that boost the creative sense of the staff.
It adapts very well in companies that want to maintain a privileged and secure communication, which allows the transmission of confidential information. It adapts very well as a means of corporate communication because it provides ideal job options for the presentation of results or communications in a simple way. It adapts very well as a means of communication for the organization of major events, and to establish communication at a distance in a fluid way.

It is not well adapted for the exclusive use of an exclusively personal communication network, considering that it is a work tool.
Project Management (7)
74.28571428571429%
7.4
Task Management
80%
8.0
Gantt Charts
70%
7.0
Scheduling
70%
7.0
Workflow Automation
80%
8.0
Mobile Access
70%
7.0
Search
70%
7.0
Visual planning tools
80%
8.0
Communication (8)
77.5%
7.8
Chat
90%
9.0
Notifications
80%
8.0
Discussions
80%
8.0
Surveys
80%
8.0
Internal knowledgebase
70%
7.0
Integrates with GoToMeeting
70%
7.0
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
80%
8.0
Integrates with Outlook
70%
7.0
File Sharing & Management (8)
78.75%
7.9
Versioning
80%
8.0
Video files
80%
8.0
Audio files
70%
7.0
Document collaboration
80%
8.0
Access control
80%
8.0
Advanced security features
80%
8.0
Integrates with Google Drive
80%
8.0
Device sync
80%
8.0
  • The Microsoft Yammer application allowed us to significantly reduce the expenses allocated to the budget items of logistics, personnel mobilization and rental of premises, actions that have allowed the company to substantially improve its net income, and profits, being currently a more competitive company in the market. Now workers have greater benefits, a situation that motivates them to continue fulfilling and improving response times.
  • The optimization of communication processes has resulted in improvements in construction results, understanding that we have a greater capacity to correctly transmit instruction, avoid duplication of efforts and specify tasks as initially established.
  • The company has increased its performance and market value.
Yammer is a comprehensive program with enough tools to meet the responsibilities of the company, because it is easier to use and offers more creative and innovative work tools.

The company decided to select Yammer over other programs because Yammer is safer and more prestigious professional. Its tools are better elaborated and its design is ideal for the management of corporate character communications.

Yammer in comparison to other programs does not demand a connection to the internet of quality to work its applications, being very positive when we work in the field.
Yes
The company replaced hangouts because yammer is safer and more prestigious professional. its tools are better elaborated and its design is ideal for the management of corporate character communications.

Yammer in comparison to hangouts is a program that does not demand a connection to the internet of quality to work its applications, being very positive when we work in the field.

Offers many more creative and innovative tools that provide a more pleasant work options.
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
The most important favor in the selection corresponded to the program's characteristics, since it offers a support for the safeguarding of the most secure information, it contains more creative and innovative tools, it adjusts to the demands of a company of professional prestige, it provides a variety of largest of ideal tools for the accomplishment of tasks, and contains tools for planning and administration of tasks.
I select yammer again because it provides the tools that the company requires to securely communicate the instructions, it contains project planning and administration tools, it contains a chat that provides a pleasant image that allows a fluid communication with another person. in short, it is a program that has brought excellent economic benefits. since we have substantially improved the performance of the tasks and income of the organization, increasing its profitability and value.
Stefano Tempesta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Yammer for team collaboration and document sharing. Being an international company spread over 4 regions, communication in different time zones is always a challenge. Yammer helps us making teams be in contact, collaborate on writing and reviewing documents, inform team members about news and project progress. We use groups a lot, both public and private. Groups are typically project-based or product-based. Some groups live for the duration of the project and then are archived. Other product oriented groups are open all the time as the product develops. Very useful functionality is the possibility to notify people in other groups of changes to a project or product that may impact others.
  • Document reviewing: We use a lot the functionality of versioning documents and adding comments.
  • Notification: Notify only relevant people about news and project progress, this is critical to us and it reduces clutter in our own inbox but still keeps people informed.
  • Tagging: Files and posts can be tagged and categorized for a better searchability. Over time we have built a fully structure taxonomy of tags that allows us to find information very quickly in the system.
  • Document editing is still poor. The rich text editor is far from being rich, compared to other online editors in the market.
  • Import/export of data is limited. Often we are challenged with the need for importing a massive repository of documents, from file system or SharePoint for example. When closing a group, we also need to archive all posts and documents contained.
  • Layout personalization: Very little can be changed to the layout of a Yammer site. We'd like to introduce more advanced branding of the site and increase the portal identity.
1) Is Yammer a replacement of SharePoint for enterprise collaboration and document sharing, or can the two platforms work together, and how?
2) Can I do full editing, versioning and reviewing of documents directly on Yammer, or do I still need Office-like applications for editing?
3) How robust and complete is the mobile offering?
  • Reduced waste of time and emails generated in communication among geographically disperse teams.
  • Improved searchability of information, files and discussions.
  • Feeling of being connected to the overall organization and across departments.
I wasn't involved in the selection of Yammer, but compared to Saba Social, Yammer offers overall best performance, deeper level of programmability and ease of searching information. On the converse, Yammer is less user-centric and more group-centric, so it is more challenging, compared to the Saba offering, to know what a specific person has been doing. However, the flow of posts and documents in a group feed is better structured in a Yammer group than it is in a Saba group.
Overall happy with our experience of Yammer, although integration with SharePoint is still not great, and document editing is far from being satisfactory. If document editing and versioning is a strong requirement, other tools in the market do it better. Yammer excels in the collaborative part of it, allowing quick comments and sharing of documents, tagging and notification.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
I was not involved in the purchasing process, but the key factors that influenced the decision of my company to adopt Yammer for enterprise social networking were:
  1. Possibility to post news and status updates to individuals and groups
  2. Grouping of people in project teams that are close and limited in duration, or open and never-ending for conversation
  3. Reviewing and versioning of documents, with advanced taxonomy classification and search features
  4. Easy to implement and use, integrable with SharePoint (used for our intranet) and accessible from mobile devices not connected to the corporate VPN
No significant changes, the selection process was satisfactory. I would review better the mobility offering, as the current mobile apps still present limitations compared to the fully-fledged browser-based product, which we expected to be addressed by now.
Also, integration with SharePoint is still limited, despite both being Microsoft products. Expectation was to have the possibility to store documents on SharePoint, using Yammer as the collaboration interface, and to run SharePoint workflows that perform actions on Yammer. This level of integration is only achievable by using third-party tools, like our own Nintex Workflow and Nintex Live solutions.
  • Posting news and status updates
  • Uploading files
  • Tagging contributions
  • Editing documents
  • Data import/export
  • Mobile use
Yes
Limited functionality, no document editing, very different functionality from platform to platform. The app for Windows 8 is strongly limited to the news feed only to make it practically useless. There is no integration with other apps to make the experience richer (for example Office apps, or Lync/Skype for contacting people directly).
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.
September 04, 2013

Free Version of Yammer

Danielle Brigida | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Chat feature.
  • Integrate with other programs.
  • Serve as a platform to teach new users how to use social media.
  • Make communications less formal than email.
  • No longer connects to gchat or outlook
  • Makes management more difficult in the free version
Great tool, wish they had alternate pricing structures.
  • Improving communications
  • maximizing our internal power to promote intiatives
Present.ly and a few others-- but Yammer was the best.
As long as they have a free version -- we'll use it-- and if they change the way they charge we would probably upgrade.
150
Marketing to program staff- but only about 20 people use it every day.
0
N/a
  • Internal Communications.
  • Chat for coworkers.
  • Backend Organizing.
No
n/a just the web version and what's available through the free version.
  • Don't know
We organically implemented the product
  • Self-taught
Yes.
No
We haven't implemented the paid version.
They are very eager to get us to pay.
Very easy to use and integrate
Very available
It's a simple product but it does provide value.
  • Outlook
They won't negotiate their pricing structure so it makes it unlikely for us to purchase.
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