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Overall Satisfaction
Microsoft Yammer is part of our portfolio of tools to enable Enterprise Social networking (ESN). This portfolio also includes blueKiwi, Jive, Socialcast as well as IBM Connections and Microsoft Sharepoint. We use the appropriate tools to various customers depending on business needs and requirements. Yammer is used widely as the collaboration-enabler in organisations often using existing Microsoft solutions including Sharepoint and office 365. We use it to enable zero email in some organizations or to compliment and enhance communication in others.
- Group creation and management is extremely straightforward, enabling the fast buildup of your network
- Document and content integration makes is easy to gather information and work around specific subjects.
- Large existing client base and adoption makes it very fast to include your partners, customers and other externals; many are already available in Yammer
- The well supported used of tags (subjects) makes organizing content fast
- The dependency on email as means of notification engine makes the risk of information spamming clear and present
- The SaaS only delivery model will keep some organizations away; they may require on-premise
- ROI on social is very rarely measurable directly, so consider evaluating value on other areas instead
- Employee productivity will most likely increase - following an initial drop during run-in - due to more efficient knowledge sharing
blueKiwi : yammer does well in terms of user experience, initial ram, up, but less so in total feature set
Jive: since Yammer is SaaS, some customers will be unable to use yammer
Sharepoint: although not a direct competitor, Microsofts own solution has some overlap on Yammer as well - no doubt that the combination of Sharepoint and Yammer has some very interesting strategic beacons.
Jive: since Yammer is SaaS, some customers will be unable to use yammer
Sharepoint: although not a direct competitor, Microsofts own solution has some overlap on Yammer as well - no doubt that the combination of Sharepoint and Yammer has some very interesting strategic beacons.