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 8.1, and holds a 11.6% mindshare in the category. Yammer is ranked #4 in ESS , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 5.2% 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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1,560 Views
1,404 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.

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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 (4th)

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 11.6%, down 16.9% compared to last year.
Yammer, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 5.2% mindshare, down 6.2% since last year.

Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SharePoint	11.6%
OpenText Content Management	8.0%
Alfresco	7.6%
Other	72.8%

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Yammer	5.2%
Slack Business - Enterprise	11.2%
Microsoft Teams	8.4%
Other	75.2%

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

"SharePoint manages version control, which makes it easier to track and amend documentation accurately, maintaining document integrity and enabling quick recovery if necessary."

"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."

"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."

"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."

"I rate it a ten."

"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."

"The stability of SharePoint is high."

"The most valuable features of SharePoint include the ability to co-edit documents in the Office suite, particularly Excel and Word."

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"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."

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

"The solution was stable."

"Groups is the most valuable feature in Yammer."

"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 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."

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

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Cons

"The technical support from Microsoft for SharePoint is often slow and rated a three out of ten."

"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."

"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."

"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."

"More hints and make it more user-customizable."

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

"The product must provide more automation."

"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."

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"It looks slightly less clean on Chrome compared to Microsoft Edge, but it's a minor difference. There is room for improvement in user experience, like positions of elements."

"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."

"Although Microsoft is working on it, having a centralized network instead of creating multiple networks based on a domain would help businesses with multiple companies or child companies."

"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."

"Yammer should include more integrations."

"The interface is clunky and could be improved."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing works for us."

"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."

"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."

"Licensing can be by server or by seat."

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

"The product is reasonably priced."

More SharePoint pricing and cost advice

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The pricing is not bad."

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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

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

16%

Marketing Services Firm

13%

Performing Arts

10%

Financial Services Firm

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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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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