Yammer Reviews

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.

I used the solution as a communication tool for announcements and sending alerts within the organization.

The solution has the best feature for alerting purposes.

Whenever HR sent notifications to different communities using the solution, I would receive multiple alerts. Its notifications can get too noisy at times. It would fill up the entire inbox. Later, when I used to turn it off, I would get an email asking if I received the alerts. This particular area could be improved.

I have used Yammer for around five years.

The solution was stable. When I was using it, I did not notice any issues.

We had 25,000 employees globally. So, it was scalable.

The solution's technical support services are complex in terms of documentation.

Neutral

I was much more involved in numerous Slack channels and Discord channels than Yammer. I used Slack channels, primarily integrating with multiple industries and customer communities within and outside the organization. It is more flexible than Yammer. At the same time, Slack and Discord have a much higher adoption rate regarding group creation and community discussions.

The solution's initial setup is straightforward. Although, its complexity depends on whether one uses the web version or the application. It is part of our internal credentials. So, it's connected to our accounts. We can add and join different communities using it.

I use the solution primarily for alerting purposes. It doesn't have multiple integrations similar to Slack and Discord. It requires more widespread adoption across third-party platforms.

I rate it a six 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.

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.

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.

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.

I just wanted to try out the program to know what it was and how it works and if it could enhance our office communications.  

I do not see the point of the product, and I do not like it to be honest. For example, one thing which I do not like overall with Microsoft products is that they are constantly changing them. The issue with that is that most of the updates and features which they are pressing users to adopt are not good or just not wanted or needed by the customers using the products.  

As an example, we did an email migration. Some of our users had contacts that were linked with the Outlook linking feature. This is a newer feature in Outlook, and nobody wanted it in the first place. It just made things confusing by adding unwanted information automatically, and a new feature does not need to be confusing. It shoul be tested first, it should be optional, and the current software trend is to do public beta testing. One person in our company had something like 30 linked contacts — emails and full phone numbers which were not his actually his own contacts. In the migration, these contacts all showed up as his.  

Microsoft has too many updates and they are updates that are not wanted. I could understand if updates were discussed or features are wanted, but Microsoft just throws things out there. In this case, they actually rolled back the feature some time after releasiung it. That should not be necessary and it just makes for further confusion. I think I am actually saying nothing new here, but lately almost every update which is coming out has some bugs or stops something else from working. Sometimes it is a driver problem, sometimes it is something else. But the frequency of the rollouts just increases the frequency of the bugs. It is not the best plan for software management.  

I would say the whole experience was negative, so that is why we stopped using it.  

We used the product recently for a short period of time less than a year ago.  

We did not use it long enough to really do testing and evaluation of the stability.  

It is enterprise software and was meant to be scalable. We never got to the point of rolling it out for the company.  

I have contacted technical support and it was okay but not very helpful. Many times the support people can not actually do anything. If I call about a problem with a feature or a bug, they can not fix it over the phone. So yeah, maybe they are trying their best and they are polite, but if you call about an actual problem rather than how to use a feature, they can not really be of much help. The support guys were great, but the issue is that they are not magicians.  

The initial setup was straight-forward. We were able to set it up on and we did it by ourselves.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Microsoft Yammer as a four-out-of-ten. It was probably not useless, but it was of no help for our company and our situation.   

We primarily use the solution for the social sharing of announcements, pictures, and articles related to our sector, among other things.

The most valuable aspect of the solution is that anyone can post anything. It's free and people can do it on their own. They don't have to translate to publish. 

It's really easy to use the solution.

Because we are in Belgium, we have two languages and the program is only in one language. It could have been interesting to have it in both French and in Dutch. 

We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable, We had no problem scaling it. We have about 300 users right now.

Technical support is okay. I don't think we've had to contact them a lot.

As I recall, the initial setup was easy. It's very straightforward. We have two people handling maintenance currently.

We use the cloud deployment model.

I've heard people say that we have lots of tools for doing things that are quite similar to Yammer. People in our organization don't really understand if they have to go on SharePoint, the internet, or Yammer. My advice to others would be to inform people how to use the tools and the purpose of these tools and give their team training. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

I primarily use the solution for business related chatting. We use it mainly to publish and to have social communications on the business side. On a business level, it's used for the internal team to publish their opinions or their ideas, and share them to the group.

The design of the solution is its most valuable feature.

Yammer shall not stay an independent non integrated service and shall not duplicate what team and outlook services do - it can be the heart of outlook conversations / publishing

The solution is stable.

I've found Team or Skype for Business are more useful than Yammer.

I'd rate the solution three out of ten.

I did not find Yammer too useful for my type of business. You cannot sell a Ferrari to someone who does not drive very fast, for example, as they would give Ferrari a low rating because they aren't using as it's meant to be used. For my type of business, I need something to be more flexible on integration. I'm not on the marketing side and do not need to publish something on Yammer for everyone to see, or for everyone to share their opinion on. 

If Yammer were to have more integration, the product might be more useful for me. I'd probably rate it at a nine or ten in that case. However, for me, in terms of helping my type of business, it's not ideal and I'm rating it rather low.