Yammer Overview

Yammer is an employee communication platform within Microsoft Viva Engage. It enables organizational connections through communities and conversations.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Collaboration, Engagement Management, Communication Management, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Yammer.

Other use cases:

  • Content Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Sales Document Management
  • Social Media Management
  • Product Marketing
  • Training & Onboarding
  • Helpdesk Management
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Business Priorities

Improve Internal Communications and Scale Best Practices are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Yammer.

Other priorities:

  • Enhance Customer Relationships
  • Acquire Customers
  • Launch New Products
  • Grow Market Share
  • Improve Visibility
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Establish Thought Leadership
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Improve ROI
  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Manage Risk
  • Shorten Ramp Up Time
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
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Yammer Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Yammer works with different mediums / channels such as E-Mail. and Social Media.

Yammer's features include Alerts: Popups & Notifications, Personalization, Recording, etc. and Yammer support capabilities include AI Powered, Phone Support, Email Support, etc. also Yammer analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"Yammer really helped us break down those barriers and open up communications—to really focus on well-being, supporting our colleagues, and helping people with one source of truth." - Rebecca Sykes

Yammer, Workplace from Meta, Jive-n Interactive Intranet, Microsoft Teams, Ryver, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Team Collaboration. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Popular Business Setting

for Yammer

Top Industries

  • Information Technology and Services
  • Education
  • Computer Software

Popular in

  • Large Enterprise
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Yammer is popular in Information Technology And Services, Education, and Computer Software and is widely used by Large Enterprise, Mid Market, and Enterprise.

Comprehensive Insights on Yammer Use Cases

What makes Yammer ideal for Collaboration?

How can Yammer optimize your Engagement Management Workflow?

What Are the key features of Yammer for Communication Management?

How efficiently Does Yammer manage your Content Management?

How efficiently Does Yammer manage your Knowledge Management?

53+ more Business Use Cases

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Yammer solved their Team Collaboration needs. Cuspera uses 6816 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Team Collaboration needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Yammer testimonial

Rebecca Sykes

Channel Strategy Manager

Co-op
Yammer really helped us break down those barriers and open up communications—to really focus on well-being, supporting our colleagues, and helping people with one source of truth. Testimonial By Rebecca Sykes
Yammer testimonial

Keisuke Goto

Systems Platform Department Manager, Corporate IT Strategy Division

Mitsubishi Electric
After shelter-in-place restrictions were adopted worldwide in response to COVID-19, the number of Teams users shot up sixfold to more than 100,000. We set new numerical targets to shift the center of gravity from one-way communications via email to bidirectional communications within teams or proje...cts.

Testimonial By Keisuke Goto
Yammer testimonial

Kemal Cetin

Global Chief Information Officer

FrieslandCampina
Microsoft 365 has been a massive enabler in helping us reach more consumers, streamlining our internal processes, and providing our employees a great environment to work. Testimonial By Kemal Cetin
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Yammer testimonial

Rebecca Sykes

Channel Strategy Manager

Co-op
Yammer really helped us break down those barriers and open up communications—to really focus on well-being, supporting our colleagues, and helping people with one source of truth. Testimonial By Rebecca Sykes
Yammer testimonial

Keisuke Goto

Systems Platform Department Manager, Corporate IT Strategy Division

Mitsubishi Electric
After shelter-in-place restrictions were adopted worldwide in response to COVID-19, the number of Teams users shot up sixfold to more than 100,000. We set new numerical targets to shift the center of gravity from one-way communications via email to bidirectional communications within teams or proje...cts.

Testimonial By Keisuke Goto
Yammer testimonial

Kemal Cetin

Global Chief Information Officer

FrieslandCampina
Microsoft 365 has been a massive enabler in helping us reach more consumers, streamlining our internal processes, and providing our employees a great environment to work. Testimonial By Kemal Cetin

Case Studies

COMPANY INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES
Yammer case study

Cerner Corporation
Information Technology and Services
Information Technology and Services
Case Study Cerner Corporation

Cerner associates shape the future of healthcare in hybrid workplaces with Microsoft collaboration tools

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Yammer case study

FrieslandCampina
Consumer Goods
Consumer Goods
Case Study FrieslandCampina

Dairy cooperative brings better nutrition to the world with a workplace built on Microsoft 365

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Yammer case study

Rabobank
Banking
Banking
Case Study Rabobank

Rabobank empowers employees to share knowledge securely and improve customer satisfaction with Microsoft 365

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Yammer

What is Yammer?

Yammer is an enterprise social networking platform for employees to connect and communicate across their organization.

It provides the ability to connect and engage with employees within the organization. It can deliver live and on-demand events and share rich social experiences to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and other Office 365 apps. It allows employees to share, create, and edit files directly from Yammer conversations within the Office for the web. It comes with web as well as mobile app.

It uses virtual office and can be integrated with Microsoft sharepoint for creating social layer across all enterprise applications.

What is Yammer used for?

Yammer is a Team Collaboration Software mainly used by its customers to Improve Internal Communications and Scale Best Practices by Collaboration, Engagement Management and Communication Management .

What are the top features of Yammer?

Alerts: popups & Notifications, Personalization and Recording are some of the top features of Yammer.

Who uses Yammer?

Yammer is used by Information Technology And Services, Education and Computer Software among other industries.

What are Yammer alternatives?

Workplace From Meta, Jive-N Interactive Intranet, Microsoft Teams and Ryver are popular alternatives for Yammer.

Where is Yammer located?

Yammer is headquartered at Redmond, WA.
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Peers used Yammer for collaboration and engagement management

Yammer Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.87/5 ★

Read Reviews (64)
Analytics

4.80/5 ★

Read Reviews (158)
Custom Reports

3.49/5 ★

Read Reviews (349)
CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.87/5 ★

Read Reviews (64)
Analytics

4.80/5 ★

Read Reviews (158)
Custom Reports

3.49/5 ★

Read Reviews (349)

Software Failure Risk Guidance

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Overall Risk Meter

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Top Failure Risks for Yammer

Microsoft Corporation News

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Microsoft Corporation Profile

Company Name

Microsoft Corporation

Company Website

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us

Year Founded

1975

HQ Location

Redmond, WA

Employees

10001+

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Financials

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