Yammer News & Articles

Social performance management technology provider WorkSimple unveiled an edition of its platform designed specifically for Yammer users at this week’s YamJam ’12 conference in San Francisco. WorkSimple says the new integration brings both enterprise social software vendors into direct competition with Salesforce’s recently released Work.com social performance management tool.

Forget about the Magic Quadrant for Social CRM or the Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management. It's time to turn our attention inward and check out the best social software for your enterprise -- according to Gartner.

 Among Salesforce's many announcements at Dreamforce comes Chatterbox, a Chatter product extension taking direct aim at Dropbox and other cloud storage and collaboration services.

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 Four years after starting up, Evernote's business model has evolved and scaled-up along with the company itself, to offer larger groups of the workers the power to collaborate. Enter Evernote Business to cater for bigger customers. 

Yesterday we took a look at the first part of the Forrester Wave: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012, report where we saw that many enterprises are concerned about the feasibility of using online collaboration services, Today, we will take a brief look at the companies and products that made it into the this Wave.

Yammer is now officially part of Microsoft's Office Division, and the enterprise social network has released a major new update to the homepage and navigation features.

Online training provider Mindflash is going social. Today, the Palo Alto, California-based company announced its first training app for Yammer, the business-oriented social network.

Over the past few months both HootSuite and Yammer have been making headlines. Today it’s actually for the same thing. HootSuite has added Yammer to its ever-expanding App Directory, allowing users to monitor and reply to their Yammer conversations without leaving the HootSuite dashboard.

How do the employees in your company like the recent change in health benefits? Yammer can now offer insights into these questions via an integration with sentiment analysis provider Kanjoya.

A few weeks after Microsoft announced that it was buying Yammer, the business-oriented social network is testing out a new feature -- private chat.

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The new Office suite has been formally unveiled by Microsoft with Yammer and SharePoint taking center stage among the new features. See what else was shown off at the launch event today, and where you can download the new customer preview version. 

It was inevitable that when Microsoft announced it was buying Yammer there would be ripples across the industry, particularly with products and vendors that are closely tied into the Microsoft machine. One of those companies that has reacted the quickest is NewsGator, which has just announced that it is going to integrate its SharePoint-based application with Yammer.

Now that Microsoft’s long-anticipated US$ 1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has finally been announced and the dust has settled a bit, it’s worth taking a fresh look at what can be seen both as one of our industry’s most fascinating transactions and one of its worst-kept secrets.