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Jive vs Yammer comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (34th), Web Content Management (41st), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Knowledge Management Software (10th), Enterprise Intranet (5th)
Yammer
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
4th
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Jive is 3.9%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yammer is 6.9%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

it_user446067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments.
Stream activity could be better organized. Activities or content you are following will either be emailed to you or you follow in a stream. This is the largest issue to overcome for new people using the solution. When using email they receive way too many and it becomes noise. If they use streams, it's yet another thing to check along with email, IM, etc.
PrashantSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps users to reach out to others in the organization and enables seamless collaboration
Yammer is a good tool. My previous organization used it extensively. Pretty much everything had a Yammer channel. If someone outside the team had questions, they could just come up and ask questions using the product. Asking questions and posting things are the most important features. If we run into an issue and a team owns the product, we can just use the solution to ask questions and get responses from that team. Otherwise, we will be stuck in a loop forever to figure it out. In a large company, we can get stuck if we don't know who to contact to determine what is happening and why. The product was integrated into Microsoft Teams. We could collaborate easily. There are so many things we can do with Teams. So, the collaboration is at a different level when we use Microsoft products like Teams and Yammer, along with other tools that come with the suite. The solution worked well for me. I did not face anything that would make me stop using it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"The posting features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"Yammer shows the post’s actions, comments, and how people react. We can quickly see what's going on."
"I find it quite simple and intuitive. It's similar to using a more user-friendly interface for SharePoint. It integrates seamlessly with the browser, so you hardly notice you're using it."
"The design of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"Its most valuable features are the storyline and communities."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is that it provides integration with Teams."
"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Although Microsoft is working on it, having a centralized network instead of creating multiple networks based on a domain would help businesses with multiple companies or child companies."
"If you are using other applications that are tough to integrate into the environment, that can cause limitations."
"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."
"Yammer should be able to integrate with Microsoft products, such as Outlook."
"Yammer's UX and UI are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required"
"Sometimes, we lose access to the solution for unknown reasons."
"It should have integration with multiple third-party platforms."
"The way you want to control the communication could be an issue. It depends on what kind of company you are. We are a public company, and there are some regulations that we need to comply with. Its ease of use can be an issue for a company because anybody can subscribe and use it. There are many competitors that are overlapping. Since Microsoft bought Yammer, it tends to be in the shadow. It is not put in the front from the service perspective."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is not bad."
"Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions."
"I think that there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution."
"Its cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft."
"Compared to other products like Amazon, Yammer's pricing is fine."
"We get it as part of our Office 365 subscriptions, so I don't think we pay any additional cost for Yammer. It's included in the Office 365 subscriptions."
"I don't know about the pricing. Now that Microsoft has bought Yammer, it should be a part of our subscriptions for Office 365."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Yammer?
We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer.
What needs improvement with Yammer?
I can't think of anything that stands out as a problem. It has a very limited use. For the limited use it has, it performs well.
What is your primary use case for Yammer?
We primarily use it for internal communication and company communication.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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Sample Customers

Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
Verizon, Rakuten,Nationwide, DHL, Westfield, Telefonica, 7-Eleven, Red Robin, Intuit, eBay,Darden, Suncorp, Tyco, Xerox, and ModCloth.
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