How Yammer Makes SharePoint Stronger- The Two Powers Join Together!

Posted by Zeba Rohila
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May 22, 2017
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Now that the two powers have come together, before delving further, let’s have a quick look at some amazing facts about these two super heroes. Yammer is used in 150 countries, translated in 23 languages and has 5 million plus users around the globe. On the other hand, 80% of Fortune 500 companies have purchased SharePoint and have 125+ million licenses worldwide. The collaboration of these two has proved to be cost effective for organizations; the duo provides access from any device, anywhere and enhances a steady collaboration and networking. Ask any SharePoint developer about the union of these two, and he/she will vouch for it.

To understand it better, let’s drill down what capabilities these two powerful platforms have. Yammer is a tool that connects team members across an organization making them productive and giving access to whatever they need. Simply put, Yammer connects teams worldwide and enables them to collaborate around Office documents. Having said that, users can create and browse their Word, PowerPoint and Excel files on SharePoint and OneDrive libraries and share them with their team members within Yammer group.

Integrating Yammer Embed

Businesses can become more productive using SharePoint and Yammer together. With Yammer App that has been developed only for SharePoint, allows you to add a social layer to your SharePoint environment. This helps in engaging in the teams worldwide, collaborate on files and projects and start conversations across organizations.

Since Yammer App got dysfunctional from September 2015, Yammer Embed is the most approved method for embedding Yammer feed on SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online.  Users on SharePoint sites who have switched from the Yammer App to Yammer Embed will experience less functionality issues. In fact, Yammer Embed proves to be more convenient for collaboration or working on tasks. The biggest hassle with Yammer App for SharePoint was that users or admins used to set up and update the SharePoint site manually to get the latest functionality. Whereas, Yammer Embed requires less manual intervention and every instance stays updated for the reason its functionality improvements flow directly to the Yammer Embed within the SharePoint site. This significantly helps IT and business users decreasing support costs, and allowing them to be more efficient and faster, all because of the latest Yammer Embed. Yammer Embed comes in a variety of options to choose from, such as My Feed, Topic Feed, Group Feed, User Feed, or open graph object feed.


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