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."I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Information is much more readily available."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"The user interface and the way we can share and search information are the most valuable. It is very easy to use."
"It's really easy to use the solution."
"Groups is the most valuable feature in Yammer."
"The design of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"It was a stable solution...It was a highly scalable solution considering it was used in a very big company."
"The posting features are valuable."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"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."
"Users need to be in the Acting Directory to exploit the features."
"I would like to see a fancier user interface. That is one of the weak points of Yammer."
"It looks slightly less clean on Chrome compared to Microsoft Edge, but it's a minor difference. There is room for improvement in user experience, like positions of elements."
"Yammer should be able to integrate with Microsoft products, such as Outlook."
"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 product seems to just add to the complexity of using existing tools."
"Microsoft should work on templating and provide some built-in templates so that the changes can automatically roll out to all the configured communities."
"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."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 17 reviews while Yammer is ranked 4th in Enterprise Social Software with 12 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while Yammer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Stable and scalable collaboration system; good for document and file sharing, and offers fast issue resolution from its support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yammer writes "A scalable tool beneficial for making overall communication within an organization easy". 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, Jive and HCL Connections. See our SharePoint vs. Yammer report.
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There are lots of reviews of Yammer at http://www.itcentralstation.com/products/yammer
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: http://www.r2integrated.com/digital-lab/thought-leadership/social-community-platform-comparison. 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