4. Messaging Company Directory
Profiles File Sharing
5.
6.
7. Yammer Email
Sender can choose recipients, or recipients
Message Delivery Sender chooses recipients.
can subscribe to relevant content.
Discussions Threading keeps manageable. “Replies to all” overload inbox.
Employees manage their own mail lists via IT must manage creation, joining, and
Groups a transparent web interface. leaving of mail lists.
Employees can find interesting groups. Membership in mail lists is not transparent.
Content is searchable and discoverable by Content is trapped in each employee’s
Knowledge Base
colleagues. email client.
Spam Does not exist. Chronic problem.
Company Control Easy to monitor. Hard to monitor.
Social pressure regulates what is posted
Employees can send inappropriate
Liability and limits conversation to appropriate
personal messages at work.
topics.
Messages cannot be forwarded outside the Any employee can send information
Data Security Yammer network. Only employees can outside the company, purposefully or
access the network. accidentally.
Former employees can be shut out Former employees can easily take
Former Employees immediately and cannot take messages messages with them in violation of
with them. company policy.
11. “As part of a large global company [Over 77,000 employees in 130 countries], the biggest benefit
from Yammer to date has been that a group of employees have been able to find each other and
share knowledge across organizational and geographic boundaries that would have been
difficult if not impossible using traditional enterprise tools. By offering its free service, we were able
to accomplish this without any formal project kick-off or resources. “
-Greg Lowe, Global Infrastructure Architect
“Yammer has enabled us to harness the wisdom of our people who are spread across
multiple teams, geographies and brands to help achieve our purpose of delivering business
solutions for competitive advantage.”
- Jeff Smith, Suncorp CIO