Yammer Software

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.

Pros

It seems like a fun concept to have this tool as a way to build community with co-workers and it definitely helps that there is single sign on

Cons

It didn't seem to catch on overly well for us. I don't think people remember to use it or keep up with it.

When we implemented Yammer I was able to communicate with individuals in my organization that I normally didn't interact with frequently. It is very user friendly and make communication and collaboration quick and easy.

Pros

Easy to use, user friendly, brings individuals together quickly, increases communication.

Cons

This may be a quirk of how it was set up for our organization and my inexperience with the product, but initially there was too much communication regarding issues, departments, etc. that didn't at all apply to me so I tuned out. Understanding how to use groups is critical.

Likes Best

Yammer is feature rich, with all the features you'd come to expect from Facebook included: Create a profile, add a picture, connect with colleagues, news feed, profile walls, add photos, tag photos, alert users with notifications, etc. If you're looking for a social network for your company this one does a decent, though generic, job. Also they have a freemium edition which has most of the functionality you'd need.

Likes Least

The main challenge with Yammer is getting people to use it. All the benefits of social networking in the company (knowledge transfer, communication, community building) can be real and valuable, but I've seen many attempts to create an active online community fail at my company. I think only with strong executive buy in will Yammer actually be valuable for a company, and all the great features Yammer adds can't fix this. We didn't have that executive buy-in and Yammer, Chatter, Flowdock, all failed to gain traction

Recommendations

Ask yourself if you really have exec buy in to push adoption of Yammer (or any internal social network). These networks do not just create themselves - they need ongoing TLC especially from execs.

Likes Best

If you don't want to communicate with your colleagues in a more traditional Email/Phone/Face-to-Face, at least you can use this to show your boss that you don't hate them.

Likes Least

There is nothing to dislike. However, there is nothing new to like neither. I doubt that any enterprise is not using some kind of collaboration tools already. Be it group level, department level or even document level, companies are already using some tools to make their daily work easier. Yammer doesn't offer anything new, at least functional-wise.

Recommendations

You may feel excited if you never used any collaboration tools and are not on Facebook. If you and your colleague doesn't talk in real life, you won't do it in this neither.

Likes Best

Easy to use and learn, nice user interface. Easy to communicate with coworkers and team members and collaborate.
This was part of office 365 subscription.

Likes Least

Nothing specific, generally like the product. This is useful for collaboration, not so much as a project management tool.

Recommendations

It's a business social network with some light management tools. You still probably need other project management tools, depending n how you run the project (Agile, Waterfall etc)

Likes Best

Yammer is an easy way for my colleagues and me to communicate and discuss professional development topics in a safe forum

Likes Least

Nothing, but it is just one more software needed To download. I wish that it could be more all in one so that I didn't have to use 10 different programs at work

Recommendations

Make sure you are careful when reading threads. The threads can get pretty tedious and sometimes it is easy to lose the original topic.