We performed a comparison between Jive and Yammer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Slack and others in Enterprise Social Software."We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"The solution was stable."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its integration with all the services of Office 365."
"The most valuable feature of Yammer is its interface."
"Its most valuable features are the storyline and communities."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the communication events."
"The initial setup was simple and straightforward."
"It's really easy to use the solution."
"The user interface and the way we can share and search information are the most valuable. It is very easy to use."
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Microsoft should work on templating and provide some built-in templates so that the changes can automatically roll out to all the configured communities."
"The permissions are a little bit over-complicated."
"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."
"This solution would be improved if it was well integrated with other communication applications."
"Users need to be in the Acting Directory to exploit the features."
"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
"Sometimes, we lose access to the solution for unknown reasons."
"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."
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Jive is ranked 14th in Enterprise Social Software while Yammer is ranked 4th in Enterprise Social Software with 60 reviews. Jive is rated 8.2, while Yammer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Jive writes "Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yammer writes "Ease of use and a familiar user interface". Jive is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, whereas Yammer is most compared with Workplace by Facebook, SAP Jam, Chatter, Interact Intranet and Atlassian Confluence.
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