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."It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The search feature is valuable."
"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."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"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."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"Yammer brings in the most relevant posts to the users."
"The posting features are valuable."
"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."
"Yammer shows the post’s actions, comments, and how people react. We can quickly see what's going on."
"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"It was a stable solution...It was a highly scalable solution considering it was used in a very big company."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its integration with all the services of Office 365."
"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."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"The product must provide more automation."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"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."
"The solution must be able to stream by itself, without integration, the same way that you are able to do it on Facebook Live, Instagram, etc. Streaming must be embedded into it."
"Yammer should include more integrations."
"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."
"The interface is clunky and could be improved."
"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
"Yammer should be able to integrate with Microsoft products, such as Outlook."
"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."
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