Yammer Reviews

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

The most valuable feature of Yammer is that it provides integration with Teams. You have a side-channel method of receiving those other than just email. Sometimes, when email is the only way something arrives, it gets lost in the shuffle.

Yammer still comes via email, and I look at it when I see it. However, it tends to be less easily dismissed when it pops up in Teams. I'm with a different company, and the company that I was getting it from doesn't go cross-channel into different teams. Seeing it in Teams was helpful when I was at that company.

I like the fact that you can comment on Yammer posts, interact with them, and see other people interacting with them. I think that's valuable. It's similar to Facebook, but it's for business.

I didn't observe any stability issues with the solution.

Yammer was used at two different companies I was at. It was used at an internal company based in North America with about 1,000 users. It was also used at a global organization I worked with for two years before joining the North American company. In the global organization, it served about 7,500 users on multiple continents.

Viva Engage was easy to set up internally. Setting up the solution externally was more challenging because you need the Viva Engage upgrade license. I can't remember the name of the license, but there are a couple of levels. You just have to go to the first level beyond basic, which is free, to pick up the ability to publish to external networks.

External networks allow you to create a closed ecosystem where you can invite Office 365 users. They don't have to be in your tenant. On the other hand, on an internal network, everybody has to be on your tenant. I think the Viva Engage external networking feature is a good feature.

It allows me to grab leaders from multiple companies who are also using Office 365 and add them to my Viva Engage content channel so that they can receive my updates. It took me a month to figure out how to use external networks in Viva Engage. It's not easy to figure out. There is Microsoft documentation, but you have to hunt for it.

I have used the Yammer mobile app for a while, and it was fine to the extent that I used it. Yammer is a work news communication tool. The things they post on Yammer aren't what you generally need to complete your work. It is generally lightweight communication, but not anything I need so much that I will put a mobile app on my phone.

I am not aware of Yammer's security features. The security features of Viva Engage appear to be adequate. I wouldn't call them extensive, but they do exactly what they need to do.

I think Yammer is a good tool for Microsoft organizations. It integrates well with other Microsoft tools, like Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint. Yammer is good for what it is as a corporate communication tool.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

With Yammer, it is easy to create communities, and it is also easy to use. Yammer also makes it easy to find and have an overview of every community that is opened and created on the platform. In my company, the solution's adoption rate is not so high yet because we started to use it last year.

Yammer's UX and UI are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required. Yammer's UX and UI should be made more user-friendly and organized.

For improvements in the area of stability, the solution requires improving its UI and UX while ensuring better integration with other tools, like Microsoft Teams. Sometimes, there seems to be some overlapping of features in the solution, especially in the area related to the creation of a repository, because of which one may not be able to identify when using Teams and Yammer, making it in the area which is unclear owing to a lack of best practices.

I have been using Yammer for a year. I use the solution's latest version. I am a user of the solution.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Though I am one of the major users of the solution in my company, it is accessible to everyone in the organization, but I don't know how many people use it.

Previously, in my company, we used to use Workplace from Meta or Facebook. Switching to Yammer from Workplace was not my decision.

The product's initial setup phase was straightforward.

There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution.

My recommendation to others to use the product or not depends on whether it is the only tool that they would use or if they have any other tools that they use in their environment. It is important to keep in mind why Yammer or any other tools are used to share documents or updates because otherwise, there is a risk if you split your work between different tools, as it can be difficult to collect everything and get a complete overview of a project. I think that you need to define the goal for what you need for the platform.

With Yammer, it is easy to get in touch with colleagues in other countries because it serves as an open-community tool on which you can see posts shared from everywhere. Yammer helps its users to get in touch and know other people from other countries. It is also easier to communicate with colleagues even if you don't have any projects in common or if you don't know some people in other countries.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.

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

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

We have been using Yammer for four months.

Yammer is a very stable product. I rate Yammer ten out of ten for stability.

More than 3,000 users are using Yammer in our organization.

I rate Yammer a nine out of ten for scalability.

Yammer's technical support is very good. The import bulk email option of the Yammer community was not working for us. So I raised a ticket, and their customer support team provided a solution within two days.

The initial setup of Yammer is very, very easy.

Yammer's deployment is very easy. As we get the license and standard access, we define our incoming and outgoing connectors to our existing cloud. It takes a maximum of one day to configure the solution with our on-premises Exchange or Active Directory with Azure AD Connect.

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

The solution is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

Overall, I rate Yammer a five out of ten.

Yammer is used as a social media platform for our organization. We used Yammer as a replacement for Workplace.com, a service provided by Facebook. It has almost the same features as Yammer. However, Yammer comes as a package with a Microsoft subscription.

Groups is the most valuable feature in Yammer.

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. A single network Yammer would be a better option for administrators and not for end users because end users wouldn't know it.

I've been a Yammer user for quite a while.

I rate Yammer a nine out of ten for stability.

Over 1,00,000 users use Yammer in our organization. I rate Yammer a seven out of ten for scalability.

Yammer's initial setup is pretty easy. It's seamless for both admins and end users.

The solution's deployment is pretty simple because Yammer is already available as a SaaS solution. In our organization, we needed to combine multiple networks. If your infrastructure is complex and your company is big, Yammer's deployment can take up to a month.

Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions. You can pay for it separately, but you get it free with other Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Yammer is deployed on-cloud in our organization.

I would advise users to move away from third-party workplace collaboration services by using Yammer. It's already used as an SSO. It would be easier for your organization to deploy Yammer and for end-users to use it.

Overall, I rate Yammer a seven out of ten.

We use Yammer to do chats where we provide feedback, and other staff can respond.

Yammer is useful since it is a product you can easily integrate into your system since Microsoft supports it. Because of unified communication, you can have all your applications in one environment.

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

I have been using Yammer for three years.

The setup is straightforward.

I recommend Yammer since it is a good solution. I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use the product for communications within the company. It's like our internal LinkedIn.

The product helps us know what is going on in other departments.

The posting features are valuable. We do not use it for much else.

The solution should provide a Windows application. The permissions are a little bit over-complicated.

My organization has been using the solution since last year.

I haven’t had any issues with the solution. It had gone down when Azure went down a month ago, but I didn’t notice.

The solution integrates with Microsoft really well. It is easily scalable. The tool is being used company-wide. We have around 550 employees. A recent post was seen by 402 people.

I used SharePoint before using Yammer.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It involves creating companies and communities. We can give escalated permissions to different communities.

It probably took a week to deploy the tool fully. The deployment was done in-house. A person in my department and I deployed the solution.

The pricing is not bad. It was not a big add-on. Price was not a deciding factor in buying the solution.

If someone wants an easy way to communicate changes, promotions, and news in general, it's a good product. You can post pictures of events people go to, a big job that got completed, anniversaries, and things like that. It doesn't really get easier. It works just like any other social media platform. Overall, I rate the product a six 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.

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.