We performed a comparison between SharePoint and Yammer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"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."
"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."
"The posting features are valuable."
"Its most valuable features are the storyline and communities."
"Valuable features include the integration with Microsoft Office and the fact that it is in the cloud. Also, it's quite easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"Yammer brings in the most relevant posts to the users."
"The design of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"The product must provide more automation."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"The permissions are a little bit over-complicated."
"Sometimes, we lose access to the solution for unknown reasons."
"If you are using other applications that are tough to integrate into the environment, that can cause limitations."
"It should have integration with multiple third-party platforms."
"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."
"I would like to see a fancier user interface. That is one of the weak points of Yammer."
"Users need to be in the Acting Directory to exploit the features."
"The product seems to just add to the complexity of using existing tools."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews while Yammer is ranked 4th in Enterprise Social Software with 60 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while Yammer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yammer writes "Ease of use and a familiar user interface". SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress, whereas Yammer is most compared with Workplace by Facebook, SAP Jam, Chatter and Jive. See our SharePoint vs. Yammer report.
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There are lots of reviews of Yammer at www.itcentralstation.com
This is good stuff, really helpful. Wish there was more on Yammer.
Regards,
Kaymaureen Shim
Great! I will check out Cisco-webex
Regards,
Kaymaureen Shim
This blog is extensive from a SharePoint MVP who had worked with both products. Hope this helps
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Yeah - I'd agree with reviewer131589 that if the organization currently has IT/organizational capability around MSFT or IBM, that would certainly figure into the picture. And that whether one or the other would be more appropriate would be subject to business and technical requirements. Otherwise, while I'm more familiar with the SharePoint/Yammer side of things, I do know Connections should also be able to do the job. All these major vendor solutions have robust capabilities - it's just a question of how much do you want/need to invest to get what you want up and running, and whether you want to re-use/build on an existing platform (thus leveraging an existing asset) or go for more of a business point solution. In the latter case, this opens you up to options in the cloud that might be more specific to what you're looking for and give you faster time to market. For a comparison of a few social platforms, check out: www.r2integrated.com While a practitioner/expert on any one of these might differ with some of the assessments, it at least does give you a nice side-by-side comparison of features. Again, in reality, given that they all can generally do almost anything, you have to take a look at each one and see if its focus is close to what you're trying to provide for your end users/customers. If you have to twist the thing on its head too much, you end up just doing more work. Hope this helps.
The objective of any such initiative by governments is to have a wide
applicability of the solution with rich features but more importantly a
solution that provides the flexibility of scale. If those are the stated
objectives then IBM Connections surely scores over Sharepoint+Yammer any
day. The issue with Sharepoint is the ability to have a public facing
infrastructure which has been designed keeping scale in mind. From a
feature richness angle also IBM Connections scores over Sharepoint since
Connections was designed to be a Social Collaboration tool and now has
tightly integrated solutions including the ability to have analytics and
content tools embedded in the solution.
IBM Connections Integrates well with SharePoint.
Post the integration configuration, most of the time, we should be able to get our SharePoint Libraries and Mysite integrated with connections. By having Microsoft Windows Authentication, we would be able to see the teamsitres, contents etf through SharePoint APIs on Conections page.Availability of Uploading docs are also single click away.Its visa versa from SharePoint as well.
Questions regarding MS Yammer or IBM Connections would be subject to business decision however it would also be dependent on wheather we have Connections in the system or Yammer. if its a fresh new set up planning then in long run SharePoint with Yammer negates the need to have IBM connection and have more cost effective solutions.
Best regards,
Kumar
I have experience using Yammer, Sharepoint, IBM -Sametime, Cisco-webex as a social platform. I liked Cisco - webex for various reason - Easy to use, online conferencing, blog, message broadcast, desktop share, meeting scheduler and seamless integration with MS office calendar. I found webex connect to be feature rich and meets most of our Orgs social needs.
Many Thanks
Pratyush