We performed a comparison between SharePoint and Yammer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"Information is much more readily available."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"The security feature is valuable."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."
"It's really easy to use the solution."
"I find it quite simple and intuitive. It's similar to using a more user-friendly interface for SharePoint. It integrates seamlessly with the browser, so you hardly notice you're using it."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its integration with all the services of Office 365."
"Yammer is useful since it is a product you can easily integrate into our system since Microsoft supports it."
"The user interface and the way we can share and search information are the most valuable. It is very easy to use."
"The posting features are valuable."
"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"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."
"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."
"The interface is clunky and could be improved."
"Yammer should include more integrations."
"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."
"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
"Yammer's UX and UI are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required"
"I would like to see a fancier user interface. That is one of the weak points of Yammer."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews while Yammer is ranked 4th in Enterprise Social Software with 60 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while Yammer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yammer writes "Ease of use and a familiar user interface". SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress, whereas Yammer is most compared with Workplace by Facebook, SAP Jam, Chatter and Jive. See our SharePoint vs. Yammer report.
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There are lots of reviews of Yammer at www.itcentralstation.com
This is good stuff, really helpful. Wish there was more on Yammer.
Regards,
Kaymaureen Shim
Great! I will check out Cisco-webex
Regards,
Kaymaureen Shim
This blog is extensive from a SharePoint MVP who had worked with both products. Hope this helps
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Yeah - I'd agree with reviewer131589 that if the organization currently has IT/organizational capability around MSFT or IBM, that would certainly figure into the picture. And that whether one or the other would be more appropriate would be subject to business and technical requirements. Otherwise, while I'm more familiar with the SharePoint/Yammer side of things, I do know Connections should also be able to do the job. All these major vendor solutions have robust capabilities - it's just a question of how much do you want/need to invest to get what you want up and running, and whether you want to re-use/build on an existing platform (thus leveraging an existing asset) or go for more of a business point solution. In the latter case, this opens you up to options in the cloud that might be more specific to what you're looking for and give you faster time to market. For a comparison of a few social platforms, check out: www.r2integrated.com While a practitioner/expert on any one of these might differ with some of the assessments, it at least does give you a nice side-by-side comparison of features. Again, in reality, given that they all can generally do almost anything, you have to take a look at each one and see if its focus is close to what you're trying to provide for your end users/customers. If you have to twist the thing on its head too much, you end up just doing more work. Hope this helps.
The objective of any such initiative by governments is to have a wide
applicability of the solution with rich features but more importantly a
solution that provides the flexibility of scale. If those are the stated
objectives then IBM Connections surely scores over Sharepoint+Yammer any
day. The issue with Sharepoint is the ability to have a public facing
infrastructure which has been designed keeping scale in mind. From a
feature richness angle also IBM Connections scores over Sharepoint since
Connections was designed to be a Social Collaboration tool and now has
tightly integrated solutions including the ability to have analytics and
content tools embedded in the solution.
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
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