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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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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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July 19, 2018
Yammer - Easy collaboration for large and small
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Helps employees stay connected without physically seeing each other
- Allows me to quickly find contact info for any employee
- Allows me to stay up to date with company announcements
- No place to write office hours
- Email notifications can get annoying
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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.
February 27, 2018
Decent product for small group use.
- Microsoft Yammer allows us to spread communication with many people all at the same time.
- Microsoft Yammer also allows us to look up old information that was shared previously.
- Adding images to threads is very simple.
- Adding an option to allow pinning of threads to the top of the feed easily would be an improvement.
- Managing users and removing yourself from a group can be improved.
- The basic layout of Yammer can sometimes give a cluttered feel.
December 21, 2017
YAMMER - alone in the market .
- Cloud Storage
- Access from anywhere
- Outlook Integration, important for Calenders
- Centralized management
- Visibility
- Improvement in the user interface
- Need to do out of the box
October 13, 2017
Great collaboration tool
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- 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
- 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
- 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
August 14, 2017
Yammer - A Good Communication Tool for Low Volume Needs
- Easy to use/user-friendly
- Integrates with SharePoint and allows us to feature our Yammer feed on our SharePoint homepage
- Would love to see new posts somehow highlighted or called out in the feed. At present they get buried in with posts that people like or comment on so I feel as though I must read through everything to ensure not missing a post, even if it's a post I've already read and someone new simply likes.
- I use the Yammer app and see Yammer on our company SharePoint homepage and without difficulty. But I tried to utilize the desktop notification and it is both cumbersome and I cannot identify a way to minimize it so it is always blocking a portion of my screen.
August 04, 2017
Yammer - Business use evaluation
- 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.
- Mobile app not very user friendly.
January 11, 2017
Be Social. Join Yammer!
- Employees from around the globe get to follow, share and discuss a myriad of business topics on Yammer, our business social network. They get to start conversations, collaborate on files and organize projects so one can go further, faster. Plus the ease of asking questions, finding expertise and offer feedback on a topic without leaving the application you’re in saves time and keeps employees engaged.
- When one works with teammates in Yammer groups, ideas fly! Do you have an important message to share with the rest of the community? We utilize Yammer to reach who you want within the company when you want, so no one misses a thing. Yammer brings the global conversation straight to you.
- Although the social enterprise network works very well, there is room for some slight improvement - such as the ability to attract users. By being part of the Microsoft Office Suite, it is offered as an "add-on" and many overlook it and see it as unnecessary at first. It would be smart for Microsoft to sell it as its own product so it could gather more popularity as a "social network".
- Giving an option to filter results could be better as well as giving an option to turn off the "recent activity" bar on the home page.
December 14, 2015
If you've used Facebook, you know how to use Yammer
- No one likes getting a long thread of reply-alls. With Yammer announcements and updates can be shared — without cluttering your inbox.
- Yammer's mobile apps are great for our on-the-go sales team to stay in touch with our office staff.
- Yammer's social aspect makes it incredibly easy to use, even for our less tech savvy teammates. If you've used Facebook, learning Yammer will be a cinch.
- Editing functionality would be warmly welcomed by my team. There's currently no way to edit posts in Yammer once they've been posted. If a typo is bothering you, you'll have to delete your post and re-post with the edited text.
- Yammer's design leaves something to be desired. Document editing is not great.
- No obvious way to sort/organize files uploaded to Yammer. If files from a certain user are needed, you'll have to go to their profile and sift through their uploaded files.
November 17, 2015
Yammer - The Go-To Social File Sharing Platform for Any Size Company
- Yammer is more of a social form of sharing than email. Which makes the information being delivered more personal and targeted towards specified departments.
- Yammer allows for a "blog" feel more than our use of SharePoint in the past. Meaning there is a back and forth form of communication that wasn't necessarily available through SharePoint.
- Yammer is more reliable than traditional work email, especially when using Lotus Notes, in order to send, share, and discuss within departments.
- While Yammer has been an easy transition from SharePoint, it's still relatively new and unknown. Some employees claim that feel like the product was just another "add on" to the entire Microsoft Office experience.
- When introducing new employees to Yammer, they are not as receptive because of how widely used SharePoint is across businesses and industries.
- Functionality is simple, but still vastly different from SharePoint, thus creating a learning curve.
August 19, 2015
Yammer is the way to go!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
- 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.
December 14, 2014
To Share or Not to Share
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Encourages dialogue
- Tracks timelines from a sales perspective
- Creates a level of comfort for those that may be hesitant to share
- Seems to work fine for the purposes that it was created for
- I'd like to see Yammer function with other office tools like Skype or GoTomeeting
December 08, 2014
Yammer a great way to communicate, collaborate and innovate
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Yammer allows people within an organisational network to connect with one another and find information quickly.
- Yammer network allows users to be proactive in seeking out connections and gathering information.
- Yammer allows us to access untapped resources from across the organisation.
- The ability to search previous conversations through Yammer, coupled with the opportunity to ask for help from others within the organisation, is a valuable problem solving mechanism.
- As users are encouraged to participate in conversations through Yammer, opportunities arise for people from all levels of the organisation to contribute and collaborate.
- New ideas are shared through the Yammer network, and collaboration leads to innovation.
- Yammer can help employees sustain a virtual feeling of proximity in organisations which are spread across large geographic locations.
- Staff with varying technical ability leads to a lack of confidence in using Yammer
- Yammer regularly changes the way things appear or slight changes in functions make how to guides difficult to maintain accuracy
- Free version has limitations for administration and analytics
November 26, 2014
WhYammer?
- Yammer is user friendly and (to many of us) intuitive enough to get started using without training. There are many collaboration platforms out there, but the web interface is really great and the device apps are ok as well.
- Yammer is multitenant and evolves constantly by making well-tested and small incremental changes. I feel assured that Yammer will be an even better solution in the future, thus a secure investment.
- Yammer is the hub for creating a social intranet together with Sharepoint. Finally we can make the intranet worth the investment by making people wanting to use it on a daily basis. The integration today is somewhat slim, with the Web App, SSO etc,. However, it's one of Microsoft's highest priorities to make the integration deeper.
- Yammer is a great platform to create Customer Networks that really drive customer engagement. The user experience is great and the way employees can connect with customers is creating much value.
- Security. The data is stored in the USA, and with the current NSA debate, this makes our European customers a bit concerned. However, the European Commission, who overseas the data security within EU, uses Yammer.
- Device app functionality. Many of us only use login to their social media accounts, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, on our smartphones or tablets. This is relevant for our work tools as well. However, you cannot yet edit Notes or see current #-tags in the apps.
- Sharepoint integration. This is so important for our customers that the current level of integration must be considered as a weakness even though Microsoft has it as one of their top priorities.
- Outlook integration. Many of us use Outlook for email, calendar and contacts. To break the habits of sending emails, Yammer and other ESN-tools face the challenge of having people switching from Outlook to Yammer to send a message. However, Yammer is working on an integration to Office and Outlook to bring the ESN-experience closer to the productivity tools.
February 07, 2014
Review of Yammer in a recruiting firm
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Internal microblogging. It is very easy for employees to post relevant information to keep each other up to date on whatever they want/need to share.
- Document sharing/collaboration. It did this fairly well, although the document update process needed to be embedded in the web app, instead of uploading and swapping out.
- Yammer has several different notification options including text/email for a lot of different activities on the platform. I found the wide range of options in this regard pretty helpful.
- Document sharing/collaboration wasn't as fluid as it could have been.
- Viewing multiple pictures was kind of clunky, there was no preview that you could scroll through.
February 06, 2014
Yammer to improve team collaboration across regions
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.