Yammer Software

Pros

- It was fairly easy to join our company's network, and it integrates with our existing Office/Outlook subscriptions and accounts. That's about all I can say positive about the platform.

Cons

- It honestly feels like Microsoft has completely abandoned Yammer in favour of Teams, and they're doing so to compete with collaboration platforms like Monday, Facebook @ Work, etc. Unfortunately it's not a realm that they've figured out with Yammer, maybe they'll have better luck with Teams.

Pros

Yammer has provided a relatively intuitive platform for my institution. While it can't necessarily do everything i need from a project management standpoint, it provides a helpful communication tool for collaboration, which is a constant need in my environment. The free account provides an array of features that i've been quite happy with, and the ability to move myself and others off of email for regular communications has probably been the greatest benefit.

Cons

Yammer is relatively good at communication and is easy to use, but i'm not sure it is effective enough in this realm to encourage all employees to move away from email-first communications. Other platforms seem to be a bit better at this, and it may be another example of Microsoft's choice to go with breadth rather than depth.

Very nice user experience.

Pros

I really enjoyed the layout and experience with like minded individuals. Yammer is really a hidden gem few talk about but many use.

Cons

No cons. The only con is I had to kind of stumble upon it. I forget how I did. If you have found it here...check it out!

Pros

It is one of the best intranet tool for sharing documents, information and tutorials. Moreover it also feature an organization of project management, group calendars and chat tool.

Cons

I found the most problematic process which occurs quite often was during uploading or downloading items.

Pros

Yammer integrates with our Office 365 subscription so all licensed users have access to it without additional costs.

Cons

It feels like a mash between social media and Sharepoint. It's clunky and hard to learn, and administering it/training team members is a nightmare.

Pros

It's nice that it integrates into our Office 365 deployment, and user details are automatically populated and connections are made between coworkers. Being able to have different groups/conversation windows allows us to focus conversations on specific services/products.

Cons

I feel like Microsoft rushed Yammer out the door before it was ready to launch. It just seems like there is so much more it should be able to do, but it just doesn't.

Useful in the right circumstances.

Pros

It's a good way to allow employees to interact with each other if you have a large or distributed team. The interface is petty familiar and intuitive for anyone who's used any of the major social media platforms.

Cons

It can be hard to get buy in from employees, and this is the kind of tool that only works if people are actually using it.

Pros

This tool is simple to use. Its useful in providing transparency of what's going on in our organization real time.

Cons

Not quite advisable for large companies. I wish they have archiving features that keeps a record of all of my post, so its traceable and searchable.

Pros

Yammer was easy to deploy for our company and everyone picked it up pretty quickly. Interface was familiar to those who know the Microsoft web interfaces.

Cons

It just feels unpolished and incomplete. After just over six months we stopped using it as it felt like it wasn't getting some needed attention from Microsoft.

Pros

Yammer shows promise, especially with the integration into Office 365. The various business style layouts/interface and social networking features are very nice and easy to use.

Cons

It really seems like Microsoft isn't supporting Yammer as much as they should be, and a lot of the social aspects seem to be migrating to Teams

Pros

It has most of the same features that you'll find on any social networking application like Facebook.

Cons

Getting users to adopt it and continue to use it while also maintaining profiles in Facebook is a difficult task. There are not enough reasons to use Yammer within the business for it to be worth the effort.

Pros

Provides an easy to use platform for communication and sharing. The relatively limited feature set keeps interacting with Yammer a straight forward experience. For our purposes Yammer provides a great substitute for the "Doctor's Lounge" that our physicians miss since we are a much larger organization than just a few years ago. Physicians can, in physician only environments, discuss patient cases and ask for advice and referrals to other specialists from a much larger community of their peers than are available at their physical location.

Cons

Because Yammer does not seem to have all the same connections to our AD database as other applications in Office 365 getting everyone onto the platform can be challenging. Creating and managing groups can be daunting as the platform is open. Controlling the types of communication on the platform can also be difficult and channel moderators have to stay vigilant. This does mean that the platform is creating new work for those staff chosen as channel moderators, and depending on adoption and usage this can be a significant commitment of time on a regular basis.

Pros

Yammer is a very cool concept. It basically creates an online social network for your business which can be used for everything from project management to helping employees connect over shared interests. In that sense it is very flexible, and it allows people to connect at work in a way that they are connecting in non-work life already (ie on social media).
It's pretty easy to use, even without looking at any tutorials and if you're using other Microsoft products it fits in seamlessly.

Cons

No real cons if this is something you're interested in for your business. I think it would be used to greater advantage in a larger business. We're a small company, so it's not as challenging for all of us to keep track of each other and collaborate. In that sense, a product like Yammer might not be as useful for a small company.

In summary, I would say it has potential, but lacks a niche.

Pros

It has all the features you'd expect from a social media platform; yet, because it's specific to your organization, you don't have the drawbacks of using public social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram.

Cons

In spite of the fact that I've used this software at two 20,000+ employee organizations, I've yet to see it put to much practical use. It seems to be most advertised for collaboration, but collaboration still seems to happen much more naturally in person or via email. It just isn't as in your face as an email or a conversation; so, it's difficult to motivate folks to use it as much as they use more entertainment-related social media apps.

Effective and easy to use

Pros

Very simple and straightforward corporate communication platform enabling employees to collaborate real time for short and instant messaging, sharing and socializing

Cons

Cant be used as a collaboration platform for business use or having critical and urgent real time discussions or even multi party sessions

Pros

In my limited experience with Yammer, I have found it to be very intuitive, and compelling for colleagues to utilize for ongoing, relatively informal professional conversations.

Cons

Yammer sees a bit limited regarding what it can offer, but that is not necessarily bad. Here, it seems to have had an initial level of interest that has since faded a bit.

Pros

Very familiar interface, just like any social media platform. It is fun, and allows for things like liking and commenting on posts.

Cons

I am confused with what the purpose of Yammer is. If you have Office 365, you will probably be making company-wide announcements in an intranet on SharePoint. For conversations within a team, you will use Conversations within a team, Skype, or the Teams App. I just don't see the application.

I like because is free, and i cannot ask for another thing, at least keeping free

Pros

is easy to use, you can tag any of your company, you can add many groups to different kind of, you can use hashtag # to relate any topic as you want, and you can search too by hashtag or tag or simply for a word, you can reply by email or in your phone by the app even by twitter

Cons

I have been using this web application by many years and when Microsoft bought it become slow, and in that way is less efficient

Pros

it was treated like an internal "social media" for announcements and communications, but it was mainly an HR comm initiative and no one else really used it.

Cons

reminds me of Salesforce Chatter, only meant to be more social. We did use it to try to organize a company wide volunteer day, but the process was confusing and counter-intuitive.

Pros

Yammer acts like a social media platform inside of an organization.... it's like a facebook for your company. It can be used to share information, photos, updates, events, projects, and anything else. It's a good internal tool for communicating to people in your company. You can also create groups and sub-groups to make things easier to navigate.

Cons

With so many groups that you can follow, it can get very segmented very quickly, and it's possible that you can miss information. You can set up notifications however which helps. Visually it could benefit from some updates as well.