SharePoint vs Yammer comparison

The compared SharePoint and Yammer solutions aren't in the same category. SharePoint is ranked #1 in ECM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 11.3% mindshare in the category. Yammer is ranked #5 in ESS , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 79% of SharePoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Yammer users who would recommend it.

SharePoint

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79% willing to recommend

Yammer

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1,329 Views
1,196 Comparison Views

77% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

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.

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Categories and Ranking

SharePoint

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

164

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (2nd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)

Yammer

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Social Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. SharePoint is designed for Enterprise Content Management and holds a mindshare of 11.3%, down 17.3% compared to last year.
Yammer, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 4.8% mindshare, down 6.2% since last year.

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SharePoint	11.3%
OpenText Content Management	8.0%
Alfresco	7.8%
Other	72.9%

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Social Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Yammer	4.8%
Slack Business - Enterprise	11.2%
Microsoft Teams	8.4%
Other	75.6%

Enterprise Social Software

Q&A Highlights

it_user120486

Works

Jul 10, 2014

How do Sharepoint and Yammer match up to IBM’s connection solution?

Hello, Looking at my referrers, I noticed that this question pointed out to my comparison between SharePoint & Connections (see previous discussions for the link). I didn't compare Connections and SharePoint/Yammer yet but just Connections & SharePoint Social. Now that I have a little bit more experience with Connections & IBM Products in general, I'd consider choosing either of those products the following way: - Do you plan for onpremises or a Cloud-based solution? - Do you plan for 100% out of the box or should you be able to customize the product? - Do you plan to use *only* the Social piece of Connections or do you plan to also store your documents in it? If yes, what kind of documents, Office (integration isn't as in SharePoint).? - Are you already working with SameTime or with Lync? Clearly, I'd choose Connections if : - I'm already using Sametime and/or other IBM products since you'd have an SSO for free using the LTPA tokens - I don't plan to customize the product heavily. - I don't plan to have a real document management system in it (Files+CCM) or only with PDF and non Office Documents If I'd need more than what's listed above, I'd go for SharePoint which doesn't only offer Social Capabilities but also other workfloads such as an extensive Search Engine, LOB integration, WCM, Collaboration, Social and three development/deployment models (Full Trust Solutions, Sandboxed, Apps). My experience now with Connections is that it's a nice product but it's harder to customize than SharePoint. It doesn't offer many APIs and it's rather hard to find valuable technical documentation on the product. It's also way harder to find non-IBM people working on the product. With SharePoint, you can really have an industrialization & full ALM of your devleopments and it's quite easy to find .NET/SharePoint developers all around without the need to involve Microsoft. In conclusion, for pure Social related stuff, Connections is better than SharePoint and maybe even better than Yammer but don't try to do anything else with the product nor to interoperate with other products, especially if these are not IBM ones or headaches will start :)

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AnjneyBhardwaj

Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC Corporate

Collaboration has improved through simplified document access and controlled sharing

SharePoint is definitely used to keep a record of our files and data. The capability is quite good because it is time-saving. I have used it only four or five times, but it has been very helpful to keep all my information in a consolidated manner. The search feature is one of the most beneficial factors that we use to filter out the latest data or the latest file as per our convenience and use case. When you have a large repository, this feature is particularly valuable. Role-based access control has been helpful while developing the knowledge platform. The roles were defined clearly, which made it easy for the four or five of us to work simultaneously and collaborate on our project in a similar manner.

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Deep Bhowmik

Senior Technical Product Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Creates user groups and streamlines communication

I think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a specific subset of that group, not to everybody. We would love to have some AI technologies included in Yammer, but I do not have a specific use case in mind right now.

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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

"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."

"Regarding the best features in SharePoint, the accessibility part of it is great; we don't need to do the coding from zero scratch, which we really appreciate."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing or information sharing."

"Tech support tops off as excellent."

"The security feature is valuable."

"Ability to store files of any type."

"It has made us faster and more efficient."

"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."

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

"Yammer saves our time because we can communicate with a lot of people at the same time without sending a lot of emails."

"The posting features are valuable."

"People share their files and ideas and attend meetings in a collaborative manner."

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

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

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

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Cons

"The search functionality could be improved, especially when dealing with 'lift' lists, where there are performance issues."

"The initial setup process is not intuitive."

"The introduction of AI and automation with Copilot could be a beneficial improvement."

"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."

"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."

"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."

"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."

"When you are trying to migrate from a different platform to SharePoint for file storage, the upload utility should be more flexible, taking more files and then updating you on the upload status of the files you are trying to transfer into SharePoint."

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"Yammer should include more integrations."

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

"The permissions are a little bit over-complicated."

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

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

"Yammer should be able to integrate with Microsoft products, such as Outlook."

"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 think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a specific subset of that group, not to everybody."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."

"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."

"The platform has medium pricing."

"The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."

"The product is reasonably priced."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"The pricing is competitive."

More SharePoint 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."

"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."

"The pricing is not bad."

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

"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."

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Comparison Review

it_user8913

Developer with 51-200 employees

Aug 22, 2013

Yammer vs. SP Social in 2013

There are several discussions on SharePoint’s social strategy going on at the moment. I had some great discussions with my MVP mate Adis during Summit last week. Since #SPC12 almost every SharePoint addicted developer, it-pro, power user has reviewed Yammer. If you don’t know what Yammer is, here a…

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Answers from the Community

it_user120486

Works

Jul 10, 2014

How do Sharepoint and Yammer match up to IBM’s connection solution?

2 out of 9 answers

it_user128490

IT Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 1, 2014

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

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it_user131589

Works

Jul 1, 2014

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Marketing Services Firm

13%

Performing Arts

10%

Leisure / Travel Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	81

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	31

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.

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What needs improvement with SharePoint?

It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution. Sometimes I have to refresh pages more than with Google, but it does not charge; the page ...

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What is your primary use case for SharePoint?

I create a data warehouse and establish a link between different applications. For data exchange, the vendor is Oracle.

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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?

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What is your primary use case for Yammer?

We create user groups in Yammer, so we use it mainly for communications and engagement. The features in Yammer that I find most beneficial for team collaboration, communication, and engagement are ...

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

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Overview

SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

Microsoft

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.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.

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

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