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 most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"Yammer brings in the most relevant posts to the users."
"Yammer is useful since it is a product you can easily integrate into our system since Microsoft supports it."
"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its integration with all the services of Office 365."
"It was a stable solution...It was a highly scalable solution considering it was used in a very big company."
"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."
"The product seems to just add to the complexity of using existing tools."
"Yammer's UX and UI are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required"
"Yammer has very limited features."
"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."
"I would like to see a fancier user interface. That is one of the weak points of Yammer."
"The permissions are a little bit over-complicated."
"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
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, 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