Does anyone actually use Yammer?

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.

Is Yammer phased out?

On 1 January, 2017, the Yammer Enterprise service tier will be discontinued but the social network will remain available and will be integrated with Office 365 services in a number of ways.

What is feed on Yammer?

The purpose of the Yammer Discovery feed is to help you keep up with what’s happening in your organization. It’s useful for finding out what your leadership team, coworkers, and people in other departments are talking about. For keeping track of more immediate concerns, use your Yammer Inbox and the Following tab.

Are teams replacing Yammer?

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

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 does the Yammer feed work?

The feed in Yammer has two main purposes – the first is to help you stay on top of your communities, people and topics you follow. And the second is discovery – there are so many conversations that are happening, the feed finds conversations from people, communities and topics that we think you might be interested in.

Does Yammer have an RSS feed?

Yammer has no RSS-feeds available for you.

How effective is Yammer?

For this reason, the world’s leading technology analysts at Gartner rate Yammer as “generally ineffective” managing an internal communication strategy throughout an entire company. Source: Help Employees Select the Right Microsoft Office 365 Tools, Gartner, 11/13/2019.