Yammer helps you connect and engage across your organization, so you can discuss ideas, share updates, and network with others.
Yammer can also be used by leadership to hold org-wide town hall meetings. It integrates other Office 365 apps & makes the workplace more social. As part of Microsoft’s initiative to make Office 365 more social, the company started rolling apps and services together.
What is Yammer and why should you use it?
Training: Yammer is a social networking tool to openly connect and engage across your organization. Use Yammer to stay on top of what matters, tap into the knowledge of others, and build on existing work.
Yammer helps employees get answers fast even when they don’t know who to ask. Yammer enables organizations—particularly ones with multiple offices— to collaborate across locations. Instead of sending an email asking who to ask about X, you can now just post it in a Yammer Group.
Another common question is “What can you do with Yammer?”.
One way to think about this is Use polls to crowd source feedback and get answers fast. Stay connected outside the office with the Yammer mobile app. Yammer helps you connect and engage across your organization, so you can discuss ideas, share updates, and network with others.
Stay connected outside the office with the Yammer mobile app. Yammer helps you connect and engage across your organization, so you can discuss ideas, share updates, and network with others.
What is Yammer for Microsoft Teams?
And that’s exactly what Yammer is for. While Microsoft keeps increasing the number of people who can be in a Teams team and visible on-screen at once in the same Teams meeting, ever bigger teams aren’t engaged in the close collaboration that Teams is designed for.
Here is what my research found. there is a Yammer tab in Teams that lets team members engage in Yammer conversations, watch live and on-demand events, and browse communities without switching apps. And for Share. Point, Yammer conversations can be embedded into the intranet using the Yammer conversations web part.
What is Yammer app in Office 365?
Yammer is a part of your Office 365 subscription which provides you many familiar tools for collaborating with others in your company. This contains many Suggested Groups, Suggested People, Networks, a Feed, etc. You can easily get the Yammer App by using Microsoft Office 365 App Launcher which is Online version.
Now Yammer integrates with Office 365 Groups, which integrates with Outlook, which integrates with a variety of other Office 365 apps.
Some believe that the service began as an internal communication system for the genealogy website Geni. Com, and was launched as an independent product in 2008. Microsoft later acquired Yammer in 2012 for US$1.2 billion. Currently Yammer is included in all enterprise plans of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 .
What happened to Yammer and Microsoft Dynamics?
In 2013, Microsoft integrated Yammer into Dynamics CRM and pushed the Yammer subscription into their Office 365 enterprise plans. In 2014, Microsoft announced that Yammer development was being moved into the Office 365 development team, and Sacks announced that he was leaving Microsoft and Yammer.
This is what I discovered. the future of Yammer looks good as lots of organizations are using Yammer and Microsoft also planning to evolve Yammer to power social connection and engagement across the Office 365 suite. Yammer acting as a great platform for organization-wide employee engagement and communications for Microsoft 365 customers.