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Microsoft Yammer

Overview

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

Thank you!!!!

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)
    9.1
    91%
  • 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

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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 highest, with a score of 9.1.

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

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December 08, 2022

Thank you!!!!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Cross app communication
  • dynamic communication
  • Activity trackers
  • Cross app communication UI
  • Better time management using more detailed time stamps
  • Work on UX
Dawn Gartin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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.
  • 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.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Nikhil George | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Email notifications for posts you have missed/might be of interest to you. Prompts you to open up Yammer and see missed announcements. This helps you keep up to date.
  • Stable application, rarely (if any) downtime which is important if you want staff to regularly refer back to it.
  • Historical posts are stored and can easily be accessed. This means it can be used as a repository and new staff members can read past announcements.
  • It needs better search functionality. It should allow you to filter search records by date or users or groups.
  • Bland user interface. It's a clean interface, but the design could be uplifted. Might help with user engagement if the design was modernized.
  • No clear way of organizing groups in the navigation menu which makes it hard to easily find groups you have to access.
  • You can add members to a group, but you have to search for members by name. It would be good if it could show all company members not in the group so you can invite members you think should be in the group.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It creates great collaboration.
  • Easy method to stay in constant contact with other employees.
  • It creates a casual, yet professional environment for people to share ideas.
  • The UI isn’t the greatest.
  • We’d like to see my updates to the platform to work out some kinks.
  • Allow more customization by companies.
Erik Ralston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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 18, 2019

Yammer

Theresa Gingras | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use- While training for a new database, we used Yammer to ask questions and it was great that it was so easy to use
  • not sure where they could improve
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The feed allows you to see what is going on at a time that is convenient for you.
  • You can join into conversations, like, reply, in a way that is comfortable for you when time allows.
  • Easy to share resources and information with colleagues.
  • Poll staff as needed to gather opinions.
  • Organization Layout, maybe some ability to add more organization, such as color coding, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • 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.
Joshua Melder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
FRANCO PIÑERO | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
August 02, 2018

Yappin on Yammer

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sharing Office365 content with others
  • Communicating with others in our group
  • Communicating with the entire organization
  • More powerful search/filtering would be nice
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