
We all rapidly adopted Microsoft Teams, quickly incorporating it into our day-to-day activities. Combining workplace chat, video meetings, file storage and application integration, this communication and collaboration tool enabled teams to work together and share information and files via a common space. Launched in 2017, Microsoft Teams was the sexy new collaboration tool from the Office 365 family. So, I wouldn’t say Yammer really went wrong.


So, Where Did Yammer Go Wrong?Īs we, the users, looked to drive more efficient ways of collaborating, the limitations of Yammer became clear: With the ability to create Groups, it was quickly embraced by many organisations to avoid going back and forth with isolated email messages and use the Yammer platform instead, to ask, answer, comment, and converse with a wide reaching audience – where all conversations are completely visible to group members.Īs innovative as it was at the time, our increasing desires to collaborate faster, smarter, and more often – Yammer turned out not to be the best ideal collaboration solution after all. Yammer first appeared on the scene way back in September 2008. The Yammer vs Teams Debate: Do we Really Need Yammer Anymore?
