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How Microsoft Found Its Collaboration Groove
With the release of Teams and Microsoft 365, Microsoft seems to finally be on track to deliver the collaboration tools its customers have long demanded.
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When Artificial Intelligence Sentiment Analysis Meets Yammer
Bringing some of Microsoft's artificial intelligence capabilities to bear on collaboration tools opens up a new realm of productivity.
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Microsoft Is Sending Collaboration Loopy
Microsoft released a guide on "where to start a conversation" in its collaboration tools. It's a start, but now the company needs a plan to better integrate the tools
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Where Office 365 and Groups Fit in Your Collaboration Approach
Do you remember when the geeks referred to Microsoft as the "Evil Empire"? I was one of them. I've been working with SharePoint since it was invented, and let's just say we've had a tumultuous and troubled relationship in the years since.
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Efficiency Versus Effectiveness: 57 Yammer Networks Can't Be Wrong
Studies of how organizations work have been around pretty much since the beginning of the industrial age.
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Get Collaboration Right, and Innovation Will Follow
Establishing innovation as part of the way we work in the digital workplace is the holy grail for many organizations. What we see, however, is that as we transplant face-to-face activities into virtual working, we lose that opportunity for innovation.
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Will Microsoft Teams Hammer Yammer?
Let’s be honest: enterprise social networks (ESN) have always struggled. From the start, people have questioned whether an ESN could really deliver on its promise of better communication, collaboration and operational efficiency.
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Microsoft Teams and Yammer: Why the Two Are Fundamentally Different
Microsoft Teams launched three months ago. Ever since, many people have found it difficult to understand the difference between Teams and Yammer, and to establish where each platform fits in the Microsoft collaboration ecosystem. Several thought-leaders have offered their advice on the matter.
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It's Official: Microsoft Eliminates Yammer Enterprise Plan
Microsoft made good on its promise to eliminate the Yammer Enterprise service tier. As Group Product Marketing Manager Jon Orton told CMSWire during the Ignite conference in Atlanta in September, Microsoft is replacing the stand-alone enterprise offering in favor of deeper levels of integration with Office 365 services.
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Satya Nadella Wants You to Love Microsoft: Here's His Plan
Just a few years ago the world was leaving Microsoft for dead — a company that couldn't innovate, refused to play nicely with others and even bought the wrong things, like Nokia and Yammer. Early incarnations of the Surface were commercial disasters. Even Gartner predicted Windows would be obsolete by
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Can the 'Like' Economy Work Inside the Enterprise?
Now that Workplace by Facebook is here, the big question is whether the behemoth consumer social network can effectively work its magic inside the enterprise. Arguably the most endearing argument supporting Workplace is the likely familiarity of the interface to the majority of end users, easing the adoption challenge.
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Microsoft Offers Deep Yammer Integration With Office
It's been four years in the making, but Microsoft seems to have finally decided where Yammer fits in the Microsoft environment. The enterprise social network has languished within the Redmond-Wash.-based software giant since its 2012 acquisition, raising repeated questions of what exactly the company planned to do with it.
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Microsoft Evolves Yammer From Stand-Alone Product to Key Part of Office 365 #MSIgnite
ATLANTA — Everyone understand the risks of all work and no play. But the Microsoft executive tasked with product marketing for the company's enterprise social networking service claims too much play is a serious risk to productivity.
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Why Is Microsoft Closing Its Skype London Office?
Microsoft is closing its Skype office in London — a move that is expected to make some 220 people redundant and leave many more wondering "Why?" The Financial Times (subscription required) first reported that Microsoft was cutting back operations in the UK.
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