Yammer News & Articles

In case you missed it, Microsoft bought Yammer. We await the results of this acquisition within SharePoint (we might be waiting some time), but it is certainly a clear admission that SharePoint doesn’t currently do "social" very well. Yammer is primarily a microblogging platform, albeit with a lot of other features thrown in, so it is fair to say Microsoft will use it to beef up this side of SharePoint -- user profiles, activity feeds, microblogging, status updates and so on. But what about good old fashioned standard blogging?

There seems to be a lot of chatter around Microsoft's purchase of Yammer. There is clearly much to talk about here especially what it means for the addictive business narcotic known as SharePoint. This topic is not that interesting to me as I find this acquisition to be one more step towards the inevitable demise of licensed application software for businesses.

Microsoft has made no secret of its newfound love for a touch interface (I’m assuming we are ignoring Windows for Pen Computing and Windows XP Tablet as pretty much everyone else did). It is the standout feature for the majority of its latest product offerings.

Microsoft made it official this week -- it is taking the enterprise social network provider Yammer under its wing. The news has brought up a number of questions, including what this means for SharePoint. In this week's discussion point we went out and asked a number of industry analysts and Microsoft partners for their views. Here's what they said.

Oh how the smell of money draws us in. Really, who could stare at US$ 1.2 billion and walk away? Yammer has agreed to that nice tidy sum and joins Microsoft's ranks. Everyone has a thought on it, and it isn't all nice.

The deal is real -- Yammer has agreed to sell itself to Microsoft … but it’s the rest of the story and the analysis that’s really interesting.

The Wall Street Journal is now confirming that Yammer has agreed to sell itself to Microsoft  for US$ 1.2 billion. They cite their source as a “person familiar with the matter” who could be anyone, maybe even Yammer founder and CEO David Sacks.

Microsoft is sending out minimalist invites to the media for a secret event on Monday; no location and no idea on who will be presenting or what they'll show. What could it be?  We'll find out on Monday, but until then, let's guess.

Rumor that Microsoft is buying Yammer has swept the enterprise social networking company's office this week. Now, Bloomberg has news that a $1 billion deal is on the cards.

Strong title, but if you asked Adam Pisoni, Yammer CTO and Co-founder, that's exactly what he will tell you. The future is, you guessed it, enterprise social networks and the cloud.

Siasto, a new workplace productivity service, is following the lead of companies such as Yammer in the enterprise.

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Forrester Research refers to social activities streams which connect enterprise social tools to adjacent collaboration, content, portal, and productivity applications in the environment as a “bridge” to “socially enabled” enterprise applications. Evaluating leading vendors in the current activities stream marketplace, Forrester has placed Yammer, Salesforce and Tibco at the head of the list, with VMware (Socialcast) and Neudesic cited as “strong performers".

Yammer and Badgeville have announced an integration that will allow organizations to leverage gamification to drive desirable employee behavior and showcase performance in Yammer’s real-time activity stream.

A new free crowdsourcing and collaboration tool from Spigit called ICON is available today, and the workplace just got even more social with its exclusive integration with the popular enterprise social network Yammer.

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