What is happening with Yammer?

You would be forgiven for thinking the platform had gone underground given the recent focus on Microsoft Teams and Viva. And in some ways Yammer has gone underground. It now acts as the engine room behind Viva Connections and increasingly is accessed through other Microsoft 365 tools like Outlook and Teams Channels.

What has replaced Yammer?

Yammer as part of the Microsoft 365 super-team Yammer profiles are now just Microsoft 365 profiles with the same People card interface.

Does anyone actually use Yammer?

Yammer quickly caught the eyes of many eager buyers before it was ultimately acquired by Microsoft in 2012. Microsoft rolled the new product into their Office 365 suite in 2014, and today it is used by 85% of fortune 500 companies worldwide. You can think of Yammer as being the Facebook of the corporate world.

Did Microsoft buy Yammer?

Microsoft announced on Monday that it would buy Yammer, a social network service for businesses, for $1.2 billion in cash, as it seeks to strengthen its enterprise software business and compete more directly with Salesforce.com.

How good is yammer?

In a lot of Yammer reviews, the app is mostly praised for its useful and natural integration with the rest of the Office 365 suite. Sharing files and speeding up communication by integrating with Outlook is made easy for all users.

Should I use Yammer or Teams?

While Yammer is more focused on connection, Teams is mainly intended for the functional exchange of information and documents. In other words: social versus practical. Yammer focuses on ‘slow communication’. You post a message and you can expect responses within a few days.

What is the difference between Yammer and Microsoft Teams?

Teams channels close to a messaging app with features to help small teams to work on projects together. On the other hand, Yammer encompasses a wider audience and functions more like an enterprise social network. The messages on Teams are usually addressed to a specific person or a group of people.

Is Yammer any good?

Why is it called Yammer?

Why is it called Yammer? So they launched Yammer in 2008. According to the CPO, Jim Patterson, they wanted the name to reiterate this concept of persistent communication. And yammer, by some definitions, explicitly means to talk and talk… and talk for a long time.