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 6.4% 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

Read 162 Microsoft Teams reviews

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95% willing to recommend

Yammer

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657 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

162

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 November 2024, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Microsoft Teams is 11.9%, down from 18.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yammer is 6.4%, down from 8.5% 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

"Multiple channels and tools for recording."

"Communication is really easy to handle."

"The corporate world widely accepts the solution for virtual meetings. Also, it has good availability."

"The solution's scalability works well."

"We like it because it makes it easy to communicate, chat, make video calls, and schedule meetings with people."

"One big advantage of this solution over competitors is it is bundled with Office 365. This makes it more convenient."

"Microsoft Teams has helped us improve collaboration through the use of chats, as well as conferencing, voice calls, knowledge management, and maintaining a repository."

"It is a stable solution."

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"The solution was stable."

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

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

"The integration with Teams is the biggest value for us. In fact, it has only become more valuable now that it has integration with Teams. Teams allows you to stream, so that's good."

"The design of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"Yammer brings in the most relevant posts to the users."

"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."

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

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Cons

"Teams requires a stronger network for joining conversations and meetings."

"The main issue is that the link goes down when there are internet issues."

"One thing that needs improvement in the solution is licensing tools within the application, preferably on a per-user basis. Also, it would be great if the contacts list could be synced between it and Outlook. If I receive an email in Outlook, I can easily create a meeting with that person's credentials. But I must manually find and enter their email address in Microsoft Teams. It's a small thing, but it can be frustrating."

"To Do tasks’ ease of use should be improved."

"Sometimes Avaya is required for Teams to work well on phones."

"The tool has two versions: the desktop application installed on the computer and the web-based version. There are some differences between the two. For example, from the browser, you can pin it on the taskbar without installing the application, similar to Google Chat. You can also use the installed desktop application you download from the web."

"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."

"The tool lacks AI. We will require AI in the solution to be able to integrate with all other tools."

More Microsoft Teams cons

"It has a very limited use."

"Users need to be in the Acting Directory to exploit the features."

"It should have integration with multiple third-party platforms."

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

"If you are using other applications that are tough to integrate into the environment, that can cause limitations."

"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."

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

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

More Yammer cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft Teams' pricing is fine."

"The solution is affordable."

"I rate Microsoft Teams an eight out of ten for its pricing."

"In our experience, pricing may differ from country to country, with some regions offering more favorable rates due to local payment arrangements."

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

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

"There is a need to pay for the licensing... I know that the payments are made on a yearly basis...There are no extra costs in addition to the standard licensing."

"If you have content that requires more security and you want to use it in a more secure manner, with more protection, then it will come at a higher cost."

More Microsoft Teams pricing and cost advice

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

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

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

"The pricing is not bad."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

70%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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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?

Sometimes, we lose access to the solution for unknown reasons.

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What is your primary use case for Yammer?

Yammer was mainly a communication site my company used to provide information about internal events.

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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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Honeywll, AIRFRANCE, AccuWeather, Lilly

Verizon, Rakuten,Nationwide, DHL, Westfield, Telefonica, 7-Eleven, Red Robin, Intuit, eBay,Darden, Suncorp, Tyco, Xerox, and ModCloth.

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