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."SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The security feature is valuable."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"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."
"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."
"Yammer is useful since it is a product you can easily integrate into our system since Microsoft supports it."
"Its most valuable features are the storyline and communities."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its integration with all the services of Office 365."
"Yammer shows the post’s actions, comments, and how people react. We can quickly see what's going on."
"Yammer brings in the most relevant posts to the users."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"The permissions are a little bit over-complicated."
"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."
"The interface is clunky and could be improved."
"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."
"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
"The way you want to control the communication could be an issue. It depends on what kind of company you are. We are a public company, and there are some regulations that we need to comply with. Its ease of use can be an issue for a company because anybody can subscribe and use it. There are many competitors that are overlapping. Since Microsoft bought Yammer, it tends to be in the shadow. It is not put in the front from the service perspective."
"If you are using other applications that are tough to integrate into the environment, that can cause limitations."
"Yammer should be able to integrate with Microsoft products, such as Outlook."
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