SharePoint vs Yammer comparison

The compared SharePoint and Yammer solutions aren't in the same category. SharePoint is ranked #1 in ECM , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 11.8% mindshare in the category. Yammer is ranked #5 in ESS , with an average rating of 7.5, and holds a 5.3% mindshare. Additionally, 79% of SharePoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 77% of Yammer users who would recommend it.

SharePoint

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79% willing to recommend

Yammer

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2,484 Views
2,136 Comparison Views

77% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between SharePoint and Yammer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

Categories and Ranking

SharePoint

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

166

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (2nd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)

Yammer

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Social Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. SharePoint is designed for Enterprise Content Management and holds a mindshare of 11.8%, down 16.2% compared to last year.
Yammer, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 5.3% mindshare, down 6.1% since last year.

Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SharePoint	11.8%
Alfresco	7.1%
OpenText Content Management	6.6%
Other	74.5%

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Yammer	5.3%
Slack Business - Enterprise	9.8%
Microsoft Teams	7.1%
Other	77.8%

Enterprise Social Software

Q&A Highlights

it_user120486

Works

Jul 10, 2014

How do Sharepoint and Yammer match up to IBM’s connection solution?

Hello, Looking at my referrers, I noticed that this question pointed out to my comparison between SharePoint & Connections (see previous discussions for the link). I didn't compare Connections and SharePoint/Yammer yet but just Connections & SharePoint Social. Now that I have a little bit more experience with Connections & IBM Products in general, I'd consider choosing either of those products the following way: - Do you plan for onpremises or a Cloud-based solution? - Do you plan for 100% out of the box or should you be able to customize the product? - Do you plan to use *only* the Social piece of Connections or do you plan to also store your documents in it? If yes, what kind of documents, Office (integration isn't as in SharePoint).? - Are you already working with SameTime or with Lync? Clearly, I'd choose Connections if : - I'm already using Sametime and/or other IBM products since you'd have an SSO for free using the LTPA tokens - I don't plan to customize the product heavily. - I don't plan to have a real document management system in it (Files+CCM) or only with PDF and non Office Documents If I'd need more than what's listed above, I'd go for SharePoint which doesn't only offer Social Capabilities but also other workfloads such as an extensive Search Engine, LOB integration, WCM, Collaboration, Social and three development/deployment models (Full Trust Solutions, Sandboxed, Apps). My experience now with Connections is that it's a nice product but it's harder to customize than SharePoint. It doesn't offer many APIs and it's rather hard to find valuable technical documentation on the product. It's also way harder to find non-IBM people working on the product. With SharePoint, you can really have an industrialization & full ALM of your devleopments and it's quite easy to find .NET/SharePoint developers all around without the need to involve Microsoft. In conclusion, for pure Social related stuff, Connections is better than SharePoint and maybe even better than Yammer but don't try to do anything else with the product nor to interoperate with other products, especially if these are not IBM ones or headaches will start :)

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Ravi Raushan Kumar

Software Engineer at ValueMomentum

Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured

SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.

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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

"The most valuable features to our organization are the ability to store and share documents across the entire corporation, and the ability to use workflows."

"Information is much more readily available."

"From my perspective as a developer I would say that the most valuable features are the wide variety of data source connections, completeness of features, and strong query possibilities (customisation, SQL, MDX, macros)."

"The initial setup is easy."

"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."

"Overall, since I started using SharePoint, I have seen benefits for sure."

"SharePoint is better than Google Pages due to the maturity of the content I can create, the way I can store assets, and the way I can consume them."

"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."

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"I consider Yammer to be the best business collaborative tool."

"The tool allows us to post and keep track of company buzz and events without relying on email."

"The integration with Teams is the biggest value for us."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to reach all parts of the organisation to share ideas and best practices."

"The design of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"External collaboration with partners: There is a unified way to send updates about departments and the enterprise, rather than sending separate communications."

"It's really easy to use the solution."

"We can send out notifications and ask questions using Yammer."

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Cons

"Almost all of the areas of the product have room for improvement; some more than others."

"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."

"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type."

"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."

"The navigation is confusing."

"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."

"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."

"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."

More SharePoint cons

"The permissions are a little bit over-complicated."

"We tried to integrate into SharePoint, but it was not really efficient."

"There needs to be access to a channel, without the need to sign-in."

"You can only search by words or person, you cannot filter by person plus terms, date, etc."

"Ability to edit posts and also rich text would be good. Currently, unlike other social tools like Facebook at Work and Chatter, Yammer does not have the ability to edit posts."

"Technical support wasn't great. Our touch points in Microsoft Ireland were not knowledgeable enough on the product; issue experienced while going from Freemiun to Enterprise."

"Cannot import or invite bulk users from an Active Directory security group."

"The interface is clunky and could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."

"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"It is very expensive."

"The pricing works for us."

"The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."

"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."

"Licensing can be by server or by seat."

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"I think that there is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the solution."

"Compared to other products like Amazon, Yammer's pricing is fine."

"I don't know about the pricing. Now that Microsoft has bought Yammer, it should be a part of our subscriptions for Office 365."

"The pricing is not bad."

"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."

"Its cost is included in the license bundle for Microsoft."

"Yammer is a pretty cheap solution, and it's included in multiple subscriptions."

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it_user8925

Developer with 51-200 employees

Aug 23, 2013

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At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…

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Answers from the Community

it_user120486

Works

Jul 10, 2014

How do Sharepoint and Yammer match up to IBM’s connection solution?

2 out of 9 answers

it_user128490

IT Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 1, 2014

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

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it_user131589

Works

Jul 1, 2014

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

12%

Marketing Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	39
Large Enterprise	82

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	31

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.

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What needs improvement with SharePoint?

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What is your primary use case for SharePoint?

My main use case for SharePoint is storing data, and it has primarily served as our document management and team collaboration platform. I have used it to organize and share documents, manage versi...

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What needs improvement with Yammer?

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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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What advice do you have for others considering Yammer?

I would recommend Yammer to others if someone wants to communicate with a big team and needs a good communication platform. I cannot think of any advice or recommendation to share with users who wo...

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

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Overview

SharePoint offers document management, collaboration, and Microsoft Office integration, with a user-friendly interface supporting workflows and customization. Organizations benefit from centralized content storage, improving team coordination and efficiency.

SharePoint is tailored for document and content management, offering collaboration tools, workflow automation, and integration with Microsoft products. It supports robust search, metadata tagging, and access control. While performance and the interface require enhancements, it remains a valuable tool for organizations managing internal and external communications. Integration with Microsoft Teams and OneDrive facilitates collaboration, and SharePoint's centralized repositories and document storage enhance team efficiency. Power Platform integration allows for quick data handling and automation, boosting productivity.

What Are the Most Notable Features of SharePoint?

Document Management: Organize and manage documents efficiently.
Collaboration Tools: Enhance team collaboration and communication.
Microsoft Office Integration: Seamlessly work with Office applications.
Search Capabilities: Robust search and metadata tagging for easy retrieval.
Access Control: Protect and manage sensitive information access.
Power Platform Integration: Quick data handling and automation for improved productivity.

What Benefits Should Users Look for When Evaluating SharePoint?

Improved Team Efficiency: Enhance coordination and document sharing.
Centralized Storage: Efficient content management in a centralized repository.
Seamless Workflow Automation: Automate processes to boost productivity.
Integration Capability: Enhance functionality with external services and applications.
Customization Options: Tailor workflows and user experience to business needs.

In various industries, SharePoint is used for document and content management, supporting specific department sites and internal communications. It facilitates automation and policy management while offering integration with Microsoft Teams and OneDrive for improved collaboration and geographical team coordination.

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Yammer enhances organizational communication and collaboration. It offers intuitive tools for group interaction, integration with Microsoft apps, and secure information sharing. It supports large-scale discussions and cross-functional collaboration without overwhelming email systems.

Yammer provides a robust platform for effective business communication, serving as a hub for social networking and company announcements. It integrates with Microsoft Office and Teams, facilitating seamless content posting and reducing email dependency. Its design encourages knowledge sharing and adaptable workflows. While Yammer is powerful, users have noted areas for improvement, such as integration with Microsoft Office 365 and search functionality. Enhancements in document collaboration, third-party support, and analytics could make it even more valuable, particularly for large multilingual teams. Improvements in editing, navigation, and user experience could enhance its utility further, along with better onboarding support.

What are Yammer's most valuable features?

Simple Group Creation: Allows quick setup of groups for projects and discussions.
Microsoft Integration: Seamless use with Microsoft Office and Teams enhances productivity.
Mobile Apps: Access Yammer on-the-go with robust mobile applications.
Tagging and Crowdsourcing: Facilitates easy content organization and community input.
Secure Sharing: Protects information while enabling open collaboration.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Enhanced Communication: Streamlines internal and external communication processes.
Improved Collaboration: Supports team interactions and project management.
Cross-Functional Reach: Breaks down silos, encouraging organizational connectivity.
Increased Engagement: Fosters active participation and feedback loops within the company.
Reduced Email Overload: Decreases dependency on email for announcements and discussions.

Yammer is widely adopted across various industries for its communication capabilities. Companies use it for creating channels and managing team interactions, making it ideal for sectors that rely on internal announcements and communication. Its integration with Microsoft tools makes it particularly appealing to those already using Microsoft subscriptions, offering a cohesive platform for corporate communication, knowledge sharing, and team engagement. As a digital workspace hub, it serves industries looking to enhance collaboration and streamline communication.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.

Verizon, Rakuten,Nationwide, DHL, Westfield, Telefonica, 7-Eleven, Red Robin, Intuit, eBay,Darden, Suncorp, Tyco, Xerox, and ModCloth.

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