Yammer Reviews

The most valuable feature is the ability to reach all parts of the organisation to share ideas and best practices.

Getting people to first share their ideas, and then for others to then respond and help out has been a key feature of our Yammer usage.

The ability to edit posts can be frustrating for some. The versioning control could also be better. Some of these issues have to do with training and changing entrenched behaviours.

We have been using the product since June 2014.

Stability is pretty good and you can 'optimise' suggested solutions like video size and definition for your own network capabilities.

I have not encountered any scalability issues, except for taxonomy and groups admin but that is a good problem to have.

Technical support is very good; I only require minimal support from my internal team.

We had Jive and switched for a couple of reasons: interoperability with other systems and a switch to a more easy to use and understand system. The translation feature is incredibly useful for a multilingual company like ours, especially with the Asian language coverage.

Setup was relatively straightforward, with normal provisions for single sign on and governance. The complex part was the migration of content from the old system to the new, which required an enormous amount of effort.

Plan carefully and inform your users and power users straightforwardly and openly about the changes.

Pricing as part of the wider deal should be considered, as well as getting value for money when reaching out to external parties.

We are not evaluating other options at this stage; our initial evaluation occurred when we set out on this process in 2011.

Understand the limitations and embrace them.

Yammer is mostly used to broadcast team ideas, updates, and achievements that can be shared amongst each other. We used the solution mainly for team updates and news. It is like an internal media where people can share their achievements.

Yammer keeps communication very clean, without any clutter. If you compare it with LinkedIn, LinkedIn shows you posts that are not relevant. Yammer brings in the most relevant posts to the users.

Yammer has very limited features.

I have been using Yammer for four to five years.

Yammer is a stable solution.

Yammer is a scalable product for a large organization.

A large team is not required for Yammer's deployment. Two to three people should be sufficient for the solution's deployment.

Since Yammer is internal to the organization, the posts are all relevant to the organization.

Yammer's maintenance depends on how large the content is. For a small organization, just one person should be sufficient for the solution's maintenance.

The solution is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

Yammer is not an essential tool unless the marketing division feels it's nice for the organization.

Overall, I rate Yammer a six or seven out of ten.

I used Yammer for crowdsourcing and group discussions. If we want to volunteer ourselves to be a part of certain groups that the company wants to discuss with, for, let's say, some volunteering activities or to share some complaints.

The benefits I experienced using Yammer stemmed from the ease of communication since everyone in the company used to get notifications. The overall communication within the organization was easy with Yammer. The group creations and such related stuff were easy to maneuver and use.

There is not much to choose from when it comes to the verification part of Yammer, especially if the clear instruction documentation is clear. If the instruction document is unclear it could be an issue. Fortunately, the technical team in our company was very clear on the instructions on how to use the tool. Even if we had an issue, it was only once when it came to the authentication part, but Yammer was very prompt in resolving the issues related to authentication and the mobile app. There wasn't much of an issue for me with Yammer.

In Yammer, mobile app onboarding has certain shortcomings and can be improved. I faced some issues with Yammer's mobile app when I shifted from Android to iPhone, and it got a little bit tricky to use it on an iPhone, which took away some of my time. The aforementioned area can be improved. Though the resolution for the issue related to the tool took some time, it got resolved.

I have experience with Yammer. I used Yammer six months ago.

It was a stable solution.

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

More than 10,000 users were there for Yammer in my previous company.

I previously worked with BambooHR. There was one more tool that I worked with, but I can't recall its name.

I prefer Yammer over BambooHR. Yammer has a much better interface than BambooHR, making it easy for me to do certain searches easily. With Yammer, it's much easier when it comes to doing a task, group creations, and group discussions.

The company did the initial setup, so I didn't have an issue accessing the tool.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

There wasn't any maintenance required for Yammer from my end.

To those planning to use Yammer, I can say that it is fun to work with because it's easy to maneuver while being quite understandable for a layman who hasn't used any enterprise applications. It's quite easy to understand, considering that it provides indications to users on where to go and where to find something.

There are some features that I don't recall but feel could be improved.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Most valuable to me is the simplicity of the Yammer mobile app. I can check notifications and replies on the run

If someone needs to communicate with 50 people at the same and create collaboration about certain topic, he doesn't need to send communication to everyone in his inbox. Rather, he just needs one Yammer post and everyone will see it and interact accordingly.

Integration with other Office 365 products is still weak, because Yammer initially wasn't a Microsoft product. They bought it from a third-party.

I have been using Yammer for three years.

We have not had stability issues.

We have not had scalability issues.

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10. It is Microsoft support.

We were using a different solution named Beezy. It was based on the SharePoint on-premises solution. It wasn't responsive with mobiles and its scalability was weak.

The initial setup was straightforward. Even after we enabled Office 365 Single Sign-on with ADFS to enhance authentication, it was nice and straightforward. Not many complexities.

I consider Yammer to be the best business collaborative tool. If you want to try it, I advise using the free license for around one year and decide if you want to continue with it or not.

We evaluated the new version of Beezy and the social micro-blogging feature in SharePoint 2013. Both are very far from Yammer.

If you are looking for a business collaborative tool, start with Yammer today.

We use it for communication and collaboration on specific topics.

Yammer is an enterprise social software. We have it in our company for five years, but it is not well socialized. A few people in our company use it. We are using Microsoft Teams more.
It is a product that is fading away for us. We may or may not use it in the future.

The user interface and the way we can share and search information are the most valuable. It is very easy to use. 

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.

I have been using Yammer for five years.

It is stable.

It is scalable.

We didn't have to contact them for support. We had a call with them from a security standpoint to see if they can improve the way to control communication with external companies.

The initial setup was straightforward.

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

I would recommend this solution if it fits the purpose. It is a great tool, but you need to look at whether it overlaps with other tools. 

I would rate Yammer a seven out of ten.

Streamlining departmental workflow with built in QC. Here are only a few use cases:

for Human Resources:

Company wide announcements

Company FAQ / Policy and Procedures

Company Polling

Forms Repository

New Hire Orientation – Group Communication/Documentation

Training Videos

for IT departments:

Very useful client side, remote site, managing projects/rollouts or in the server room.

Yammer can be accessed from hand held devices as a traveling KB for staff.

Help Desk personnel and Engineers can access software in remote locations.

Personnel can update projects directly from their mobile devices providing real time status updates.

Tenant disk space is not effected - archiving files

Software Deployment / File storage

Help Desk FAQs – Rapid Response

Real time project tracking,

Managers can look into conversations and see employees pain points.

Built in Quality control and some Lean Enterprise tact

Users can self organize and collaborate quickly

Document control - Used as a doc repository..

I can go on and on with valuable uses.

going on 2 years

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Straightforward. But to understand all options in the portal a little bit of reading is required..

I Implemented for numerous orgs.

Ongoing.

Here are just a few benefits of Yammer

Closes Gap between Management and Customer facing employees

Lean process improvements and quality control are built into Yammer

Instant process improvements

Built in quality controls

Removes redundancy in daily workflows

Continuous improvement is built in

Every user streamlines daily workflows with specific people/orgs they interact with. Users adapt and change dynamically as initiatives and daily work flows change.

We use the solution for organizational communication.

Its most valuable features are the storyline and communities.

The solution's feature for sharing could be better.

We have been using the solution for one and a half years.

It is a stable solution.

We have approximately 1,50,000 solution users in our organization. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.

We have the solution deployed on the cloud as well as on-premises.

Our IT team takes care of the solution's maintenance.

The solution's cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft.

Compared to Facebook, the solution displays fewer advertisements.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it a seven out of ten. It has good UI and UX features.

Yammer's group page functionality is useful for large groups to collaborate instantaneously. It's very easy to set up group pages.

In a prior organization, Yammer was in the process of being piloted across our department. The ability to collaborate via group pages/sites was something people liked.

• Yammer's integration into the Microsoft Office 365 product suite was not yet in place when we were piloting the product.
• It needs better integration with other Office 365 products. They only just released the integration this March.
• They should add more "Slack-like" features. Although they are different products, most people in the development community need Slack and they don't need Yammer.

• For large organizations, Yammer could work well.
• The notification features on the web app were confusing and lacking.
• The mobile app is a much better UI/UX design between the two.

I have been using Yammer for one year.

We did not have any stability issues.

The lack of integration into the Microsoft Office 365 made it difficult to champion throughout the organization. Yammer was being introduced into an environment where collaboration was difficult to find.

The Office 365 Roadmap blog was a good place to find details on what was going to be included in the future releases.

We didn’t have anything previous to this solution.

The initial setup was straightforward. The Yammer web app was simple to log into with Office 365 login credentials. The mobile app was better, but was being rolled out later.

Make sure that you have at least 1000 licenses so you have a large enough user group to pilot the product.

The pricing is reasonable as it's a part of the Microsoft Office 365 product suite.

We evaluated Slack, which had different use cases than Yammer.

Make sure that you have at least 1000 licenses so you have a large enough user group to pilot the product.