May 17, 2015
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Yammer Email
Message DeliverySender can choose recipients, or recipients
can subscribe to relevant content.Sender chooses recipients.
Discussions Threading keeps manageable. “Replies to all” overload inbox.
Groups
Employees manage their own mail lists via
a transparent web interface.
Employees can find interesting groups.
IT must manage creation, joining, and
leaving of mail lists.
Membership in mail lists is not transparent.
Knowledge BaseContent is searchable and discoverable by
colleagues.
Content is trapped in each employee’s
email client.
Spam Does not exist. Chronic problem.
Company Control Easy to monitor. Hard to monitor.
Liability
Social pressure regulates what is posted
and limits conversation to appropriate
topics.
Employees can send inappropriate
personal messages at work.
Data Security
Messages cannot be forwarded outside the
Yammer network. Only employees can
access the network.
Any employee can send information
outside the company, purposefully or
accidentally.
Former Employees
Former employees can be shut out
immediately and cannot take messages
with them.
Former employees can easily take
messages with them in violation of
company policy.
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"We started using Yammer with a small group of people inside Deloitte Australia. The more we used
it the more useful it became. We then decided to use it more broadly and did a small internal
campaign to get users. We now use it for things as varied as project communications,
developing ideas and innovation, knowledge sharing, marketing and many other things.
Yammer has helped build on the sense of community in Deloitte."
- Peter Williams, CEO of Deloitte Digital AU
“Pretty quickly about 2,000, nearly twenty percent of our employees, jumped on and started
communicating…The number of people that follow and interact with you really is about not only
who you are but what you say. That’s one of the great things about Yammer internally: people
are starting to create communities and groups around information they’re interested in,
relevant to their job, not necessarily to their management.”
-Nigel Dessau, Chief Marketing Officer
“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