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HipChat [EOL] vs Yammer comparison

Atlassian and Microsoft are both solutions in the Enterprise Social Software category. Additionally, 85% of Atlassian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
HipChat [EOL]
Read 10 HipChat [EOL] reviews
    85% willing to recommend
    Yammer
    Read 64 Yammer reviews
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    77% willing to recommend
     

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    Categories and Ranking

    HipChat [EOL]
    Average Rating
    7.6
    Number of Reviews
    10
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
    Yammer
    Average Rating
    7.4
    Reviews Sentiment
    6.9
    Number of Reviews
    64
    Ranking in other categories
    Enterprise Social Software (4th)
     

    Q&A Highlights

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    Avigail Sugarman
    Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
    Jul 16, 2014
    What is a good alternative to Yammer? Has anyone tried Hipchat?
    Agreed as above, you need to address what you want to achieve from a communications perspective...and work from there.
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    Featured Reviews

    it_user669342 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user669342
    Engineering Operations Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
    We like setting up automatic notifications to different chat rooms. It talks directly to other Atlasssian products.
    The basic version is free to use. We also like setting up automatic notifications to different chat rooms. It is easy to set up new rooms and invite new users. Emoticons are fun and the mobile app is great too Our entire organization uses this as our default messaging app, not just our software…
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    Deep Bhowmik
    Senior Technical Product Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
    Creates user groups and streamlines communication
    I think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a specific subset of that group, not to everybody. We would love to have some AI technologies included in Yammer, but I do not have a specific use case in mind right now.
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    Quotes from Members

    We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
     

    Pros

    "We communicate with teammates instantly within the channel, which helps us to be productive."
    "If your organization is struggling with team collaboration and never ending email chains, HipChat is the perfect solution for your problems."
    "It is a communicator for partners and clients."
    "Our entire organization uses this as our default messaging app, not just our software engineering teams."
    "I would strongly recommend this product."
    "Real time chat organized into channels with archival and search capabilities was a complete game changer for how I work."
    "We have set Yammer up inside IFrames that appear on our intranet home page, most content pages, and in all-team sites."
    "Yammer provides a simple to use, intuitive platform for enterprise collaboration within the social networking information model."
    "It was a stable solution...It was a highly scalable solution considering it was used in a very big company."
    "My organization invested a significant amount of money in the Office 365 package, and Yammer is a must if you plan to work on improving the internal communication and collaboration among your staff."
    "Groups is the most valuable feature in Yammer."
    "External collaboration with partners: There is a unified way to send updates about departments and the enterprise, rather than sending separate communications."
    "The solution was stable."
    "The initial setup was simple and straightforward."
    More Yammer pros
     

    Cons

    "There was some problem with the company firewall. It was not stable in some versions."
    "Currently, one email ID is linked to one HipChat cloud group."
    "Occasionally, there were stability issues with uploads and downloads."
    "Third-party integrations are continuing to grow, which is good, but sometimes the integration is rocky and not very usable."
    "I would like HipChat to be more stable. It crashes pretty often on Windows OS."
    "We were actually evaluating a move from HipChat to Slack at my last job out of frustration related to repeated downtime with the service."
    "There needs to be access to a channel, without the need to sign-in."
    "The lack of integration into the Microsoft Office 365 made it difficult to champion throughout the organization."
    "Perhaps keep working on the integration of other Office products."
    "I would give the technical support a rating of 3/10."
    "I think that improvements could be seen in the delayed messaging, but other than, it's great!"
    "We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."
    "The only con was that it did not share the same transition speed between apps as SAP StreamWork, another platform that I reviewed in the CODIE Awards collaborative category."
    "The ability to edit posts can be frustrating for some."
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    Pricing and Cost Advice

    Information not available
    "Compared to other products like Amazon, Yammer's pricing is fine."
    "The pricing is not bad."
    "Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions."
    "I think that there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution."
    "We get it as part of our Office 365 subscriptions, so I don't think we pay any additional cost for Yammer. It's included in the Office 365 subscriptions."
    "I don't know about the pricing. Now that Microsoft has bought Yammer, it should be a part of our subscriptions for Office 365."
    "Its cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft."
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    Comparison Review

    it_user8913 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user8913
    Developer with 51-200 employees
    Aug 22, 2013
    Yammer vs. SP Social in 2013
    There are several discussions on SharePoint’s social strategy going on at the moment. I had some great discussions with my MVP mate Adis during Summit last week. Since #SPC12 almost every SharePoint addicted developer, it-pro, power user has reviewed Yammer. If you don’t know what Yammer is, here a…
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    Answers from the Community

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    Avigail Sugarman
    Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
    Jul 16, 2014
    Jul 16, 2014
    What is a good alternative to Yammer? Has anyone tried Hipchat?
    Agreed as above, you need to address what you want to achieve from a communications perspective...and work from there.
    2 out of 6 answers
    it_user69798 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user69798
    CTO
    Jul 16, 2014
    Checkout slack
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    it_user138972 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user138972
    Works at a tech services company
    Jul 16, 2014
    Wrong question. You need to explain your problem, then we can help. Start with the outcome, and work backwards. Never, ever lead with applications or technology.
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    No data available
    Manufacturing Company
    15%
    Marketing Services Firm
    13%
    Performing Arts
    10%
    Outsourcing Company
    6%
     

    Company Size

    By reviewers
    Large Enterprise
    Midsize Enterprise
    Small Business
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business8
    Midsize Enterprise2
    Large Enterprise1
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business24
    Midsize Enterprise11
    Large Enterprise31
     

    Questions from the Community

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    What do you like most about Yammer?
    We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer.
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    What needs improvement with Yammer?
    I think we should have some improvements in Yammer, similar to what we have in Facebook and others, where we can have targeted communications, so that we can filter some communications to go to a s...
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    What is your primary use case for Yammer?
    We create user groups in Yammer, so we use it mainly for communications and engagement. The features in Yammer that I find most beneficial for team collaboration, communication, and engagement are ...
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    Overview

    HipChat is a service that provides companies with a chat and text-messaging platform that they can run internally. This keeps all correspondences private in general but public to the people who you choose to be a part of the conversation. Some of the more popular features of HipChat include a searchable history, which lets you browse through your chats to find relevant information, as well as image sharing capabilities (which is a simple, drag and drop process). HipChat supports a wide range of OS including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS,desktop, and more.

    HipChat can be used for one-on-one conversations or it can be opened up for group chats to include all team members. Chat rooms are flexible enough to allow the free flow of ideas and external data so that the entire team or even department can collaborate on the same project without missing a beat. At the same time, HipChat allows individuals to pick and choose whom they communicate with and one does not need to send all communications to all team members all the time, but can pick and choose who receives what and when.

    Atlassian

    Yammer is an enterprise social network that allows employees,managers, executives, teams and different office branches to engage,collaborate and innovate over one interactive virtual network.

    Yammer creates a social workplace that drives innovationthrough the sharing of ideas and business intelligence, boosts productivity inteams and projects, and encourages communication and connectivity betweenemployees, no matter where they are located.

    Microsoft
     

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