Yammer is a private, secure social network for your organization that will allow people to collaborate securely across departments and geographies. It’s designed to inspire company-wide knowledge exchange and to increase team efficiency. Only people with a verified company email address can join your company network.
Yammer helps you get work done, by providing teams an easy way to self-organize, stay connected on the go, and tap into the network of stakeholders inside and outside your company. Yammer is part of Office 365, and is included in most Office 365 subscriptions.
Why Microsoft Yammer?
Yammer seamlessly enables connections to people and information from across your organization that you never knew existed, making it easier to move your work forward.
Keep your team up to date user yammer Groups to stay in the loop with the work going on across your team. Engage the whole team to solve problems and identify the best ideas, without the usual back-and-forth.
Move work forward spend less time crafting perfect emails, and more time doing. Conversations in yammer make it easy to quickly share information on a topic, have active discussion around it, and agree on next steps.
Benefits:
* Improved Collaboration-the ease with which Yammer users can communicate and share files greatly increases their ability to collaborate effectively across distance.
* Improved Productivity-Yammer users have all of the human resources and expertise in an organization at their command.
* More Effective Communication-Yammer Social networking for businesses combines all email and messaging into a single inbox.
* Increased Business Agility-Yammer makes it easier to address major changes that affect the organization as a whole by encouraging two-way communication and crowdsourcing new ideas.
* Share and Collaborate with the Right people.
* Connect and engage everyone.
* Works seamlessly with office.
* Tap into Knowledge across your organization.
* Universal Search-Now we can search across several different applications,including sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com, and SAP.
* Makes Microsoft Dynamics CRM Social-Yammer integrates directly into Microsoft Dynamics CRM,allowing CRM users to embed Yammer feeds, Follow buttons, and Like buttons into Microsoft Dynamics CRM records.
* Yammer also automatically creates a page that centralizes discussion and collaboration for that record.
Features:
* Mobile support:iphone, ipad, Android phones, Android tablets, windows phone,and BlackBerry.
* Yammer makes it simple and quick to ask questions company wide.
* Expertise and Org chart functions make it easy to know to whom to go for the information you need.
* The single inbox collects all of your emails and messages in a single spot.
* Presence allows you to quickly see who is available and who is not.
* Polls allow you to gauge interest and collect opinions quickly.
* Feeds keep everyone in the organization up-to-date.
* Versioning, trending, and notes make it easy to collaborate on files.
* JavaScript embed code allows you to embed yammer into business applications that support HTML and JavaScript extensibility, including Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
* Editing documents in office 365 Web App.
* Flexternal-Cross network communication.
Microsoft Yammer announced that it was retiring the yammer enterprise plan and integrating its features into office 365 instead.The move come some four years after microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion.Microsoft will retire the standalone Yammer Enterprise plan on january 1,2017, for all volume licensing and direct channels.July 1,2017, will be the date of the retirement of the plan sold via partner channels,such as syndication and cloud solution providers.The six month gap is due to Microsoft requirement to adhere to its syndication terms and condtions.
Yammer itself is not going away. The service is being integrated and is allowing functions such as making a Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document using Office Online within Yammer itself. According to Microsoft, additional integration will allow team members to be able to select existing files from One Drive and SharePoint and share them within Yammer, along with Yammer teams now obtaining their own SharePoint sites which is said to enable them to build wikis and blogs.
Security:
Single sign-on –Yammer supports SAML 1.1/2.0-based SSO on all web,desktop, and mobile clients.
Password policies –Set password policies for length, expiration, and complexity to match your company password policies.
Session Management –Session management tools let admins see the devices users are logged into, and log them out if needed.Admins can close open session for any users in their network by destroying Oauth tokens.
Session Management –Session management tools let admins see the devices users are logged into, and log them out if needed.Admins can close open session for any users in their network by destroying Oauth tokens.
Logical Firewall –Restrict access to a specified IP range so that your network is only accessbile in designated physical locations or through your organizations VPN.
Futures:
Back in 2008 Yammer was one of many privately held companies offering cloud based business software. Their product, also called yammer, was a new type of social network aimed purely at the enterprise. It allows users to work in groups, share files, retrieve feedback, cut back on meetings and email chains, and engage collaboratively. The product grew quickly, gaining traction with all kinds of companies, and was generally received as being easy to use and innovative.
A Good product on the road to becoming great
Microsoft has learned from yammer is how to develop and communicate a good product roadmap.yammer were historically very good about this, and microsoft recent launch of the office 365 roadmap show they have learned lessons from the yammer acquisition.
Yammer still maintain their own internal roadmap, detailing the integration process with office 365.It lays out three phases of work.
* Phase 1:Basic integration to bring together the two services.
* Phase 2:Deeper connections to enable a seamless experience across yammer & Office 365.
* Phase 3: Connected experiences that bring together messaging, collaboration, email and more.
Phase 1 is now mostly completed,Phase 2 is well underway.Phase 3 covers some of the really interesting stuff that we are only just starting to heart about.
Jared Spa taro,Microsoft General Manager of Enterprise Social,is on record saying Microsoft want to weave social into pretty much every application where it makes sense. This means we can expect to see yammer right across the board in Office 365, perhaps even in Outlook and Lync.From there it isn't out of the realms of possibility to see Yammer appearing in the desktop Office applications at some point in the future.
Office 2013 is already tied very closely on the web, Onedrive and as part of a Office 365 subscription , so adding in Yammer Conversations would make a lot of sense.Yammer also seems likely to head to Microsoft Dynamics and even Skype in the near future.
The really interesting developments come when Microsoft combines the features of its disparate apps to unleash whole new functionality. Delve is a Good example of this,Which combines Office 365,Yammer, and share point in a really clever way.We are excited to see what comes next.
Conclusion:
“Enterprise social technologies have the power to transform the way companies do business and to deliver real value from providing better communication and collaboration to sparking innovation and improving customer experiences. And by implementing Microsoft Enterprise Social across your business, you can also solve many of today most challenging IT problems”.
M. Sasikala
~End~
No comments:
Post a Comment