Microsoft Teams vs Yammer comparison

Microsoft Teams and Yammer are both solutions in the Enterprise Social Software category. Microsoft Teams is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4, while Yammer is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.3. Microsoft Teams holds a 11.9% mindshare in ESS, compared to Yammer’s 6.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Microsoft Teams users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Yammer users who would recommend it.

Microsoft Teams

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95% willing to recommend

Yammer

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603 Comparison Views

76% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Microsoft Teams and Yammer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Social Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Teams

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

163

Ranking in other categories

Virtual Meetings (4th)

Yammer

Ranking in Enterprise Social Software

4th

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Microsoft Teams is 11.9%, down from 18.5% 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

Santhosh Varghese

Director - Cloud Security at Mastercard

Whiteboard and content sharing features are good

I would rate Teams's stability as a nine out of ten. However, some recent updates have made it less stable. I find it a little bit choppy. Sometimes, I find the network quality is not very good with low bandwidth. So, sometimes, when you have low bandwidth the quality becomes very poor. So, you have to optimize your usage.

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PrashantSharma

BI & SharePoint Solutions Architect at Aavispro

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams is that it is easy to use."

"I am impressed with the solution's collaboration with Office 365."

"The feature I like most in Microsoft Teams is the ability to work on the same file with other people, for example, on Microsoft PowerPoint, or Microsoft Excel, without needing to share the file via email."

"The solution has improved internal collaboration. We can seamlessly interact on a number of documents by projecting them on the screen. This experience is not with internal teams but with clients as well."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to have remote meetings with customers and colleagues."

"The tool's integration capabilities are seamless."

"Screen sharing and chat retention are the most valuable features of Microsoft Teams."

"The initial setup was really straightforward and easy."

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"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."

"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."

"Its most valuable features are the storyline and communities."

"Yammer is useful since it is a product you can easily integrate into our system since Microsoft supports it."

"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its integration with all the services of Office 365."

"Valuable features include the integration with Microsoft Office and the fact that it is in the cloud. Also, it's quite easy to use."

"It's really easy to use the solution."

"It was a stable solution...It was a highly scalable solution considering it was used in a very big company."

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Cons

"They should allow switching between windows in a Teams meeting."

"The product should provide a to-do list feature."

"We cannot change the mic automatically in Microsoft Teams. We have to do it manually."

"The desktop and mobile apps are quite different."

"The tool needs to improve its stability. There are issues when too many people use it at the same time."

"It would be better if Microsoft Teams can link us to the internet on the screen sharing mode during the meeting."

"The chat option in the Teams tab is not very helpful. We don't use it very often. There is also an expiration on the recordings. It would be useful to not have a time limit."

"It may be a little daunting to learn and is still a tool in development."

More Microsoft Teams cons

"The product seems to just add to the complexity of using existing tools."

"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."

"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."

"The solution's feature for sharing could be better."

"I would like to see a fancier user interface. That is one of the weak points of Yammer."

"Yammer's UX and UI are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required"

"Microsoft should work on templating and provide some built-in templates so that the changes can automatically roll out to all the configured communities."

"The solution must be able to stream by itself, without integration, the same way that you are able to do it on Facebook Live, Instagram, etc. Streaming must be embedded into it."

More Yammer cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is high and I would rate it an eight out of ten."

"Pricing is free to a threshold and then after that you have to license per user."

"It costs around $12 for SharePoint and Teams per user."

"We need to pay for Microsoft Teams' licenses on a yearly basis."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"The standalone license is not cheap."

"The tool's price is part of MS Office 365 and I would rate its pricing five out of ten. The tool's licensing costs are monthly."

"The solution is expensive and I would rate it a nine out of ten."

More Microsoft Teams pricing and cost advice

"Compared to other products like Amazon, Yammer's pricing is fine."

"I don't know about the pricing. Now that Microsoft has bought Yammer, it should be a part of our subscriptions for Office 365."

"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 think that there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution."

"The pricing is not bad."

"Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions."

"Its cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

70%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Teams?

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams for us is the ability to share files from OneDrive seamlessly.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Teams?

I’m unsure about the exact cost, but I believe it’s reasonable. Using Teams for collaboration, video conferencing, and messaging helps save costs, especially for communicating with third-party comp...

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Teams?

Everything is running smoothly, and I’m still exploring more features. As for improvements, I think it could be more user-friendly and integrate better with third-party software, like Zoom and othe...

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What do you like most about Yammer?

We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer.

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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.

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What is your primary use case for Yammer?

We primarily use it for internal communication and company communication.

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Overview

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.

We do business in 170 countries and are made up of 114,000 passionate employees dedicated to fulfilling our mission of helping you and your organization achieve more.

Yammer is an enterprise social network that allows employees,managers, executives, teams and different office branches to engage,collaborate and innovate over one interactive virtual network.

Yammer creates a social workplace that drives innovationthrough the sharing of ideas and business intelligence, boosts productivity inteams and projects, and encourages communication and connectivity betweenemployees, no matter where they are located.

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