Microsoft Viva Engage

Score7.7 out of 10

324 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Yammer are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Encouraging Participation Feature: Users have appreciated the platform's feature that encourages participation, fostering engagement and collaboration among coworkers. This aspect has been highlighted for promoting a sense of community and teamwork within organizations.

Easy-to-Use Interface: Many users have praised the platform for being light and easy to use, making it accessible for all users regardless of technical expertise. The intuitive design contributes to a seamless user experience and quick adoption across teams.

Documented Conversations: The documented conversations feature is found useful by users for keeping track of discussions and important information shared within the platform. It serves as a valuable reference point for ongoing projects and facilitates knowledge sharing among team members.

Reviews

55 Reviews

Good Social media tool at enterprise-level

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization uses it as a social media tool for collaborations, announcements, and staying connected. The product solves the requirement of a secure social platform within the organization's active directory and network. However, I think the external equivalents (Twitter, Insta or FB) are far better in terms of UI and algorithm both.

Pros

Announcements
Sharing photos and updates
Discussions
Knowledge Sharing

Cons

Realtime chat
Searching older posts is difficult
Low engagement in smaller organizations

Likelihood to Recommend

Pros -
Good integration with Office 365
Good for announcements & discussions
Secure and organization-wide integrations
Enterprise-level collaborations
Good for knowledge sharing

Cons -
Limited engagement in smaller organizations
No real-time chat option
Search issues

I feel that Microsoft Yammer can be better but, somehow it is serving the purpose within the company so no issues with that.

Asad Khan

Systems Solution Architect in Engineering at Ericsson (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

The use of Microsoft Yammer in our organization

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 17, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We uses Microsoft Yammer to enhance internal communication, faster collaboration, and share knowledge across teams and departments. This platform helps streamline project updates, encourage innovation, and connect colleagues from around the world working at different sites in different countries.

Pros

Knowledge sharing across different companies in our network
Collaboration between different colleagues of different disciplines
Improved communication about iferent projects

Cons

Interface could be more intuitive when you check other Social platforms
Integration with more third party software
More control over notifications in the software

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited: company wide we are informed about the different projects we are doing Sharing information between different persons. Onboarding of new colleagues could be working fine Less: Integration with other tools then Microsoft Feedback given is less introduced.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Yammer is great!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We struggle in a remote posture to get to know each other in a friendly and meaningful way. We use Yammer internally to get to know each other, and share funny pictures, recipes, and other light communications that don't require an email. It's a great way to get to know people in a nice and friendly way!

Pros

Comments and reactions.
Encourages participation.
Light and easy to use.

Cons

People can dread using it.
Lack of comfort in sharing personal info.
Can be burdensome.

Likelihood to Recommend

Yammer is great when you have a company culture that encourages friendly collaboration and communication. It can be a great supplement (but certainly not a substitute) for bonding and sharing ideas and thoughts. Certain channels can be really successful, too, like a channel where people can post dog pictures or something fun like that!

Daniel Ryave

Consultant in Corporate at Booz Allen Hamilton (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Thank you!!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

December 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization uses Yammer for both impromptu meetings and scheduled conference calls. The ease and accountability with which every conversation can be documented and understood are immense. It is a great tool for sharing ideas and information within our organization. We will continue to utilize Yammer for the foreseeable future. Thank you.

Pros

Clear documented conversations.
Easy to connect with coworkers.
Consistent platform performance.

Cons

Not all external partners have this platform.
Some users are turned off by the social-media-like interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

Our organization relies on consistency and reliability for successful relationships, and this platform has provided those qualities and then some. At the same time, not all of our partners utilize this software, those who do have had great success with establishing a baseline to share ideas and thoughts with each other. We will continue to use this software for the foreseeable future.

Mike Reilly

Risk Claims Management Specialist in Human Resources at North Clackamas School District (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Professional fun place

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 8, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company has been using this product as it encourages employees to not be distracted by other social networks. It keeps the work and social activities to be going in hand within the organization. It helps the employees to be in a better space. The employees are free to share either professional or personal posts over the network and it brings a more relaxing experience to the employees and team meats. it also helps to have better communication with other teams as well.

Pros

Cross app communication
dynamic communication
Activity trackers

Cons

Cross app communication UI
Better time management using more detailed time stamps
Work on UX

Likelihood to Recommend

It is more of a social network but limited to the workspace. It can be entertaining and professional at the same time. It helps in better maintaining the decorum of the organization and also helps to enhance productivity within the organization. It can be one of the best platforms that more and more organizations can adopt to prefer people avoid other social networks in the workplace.

Verified User

Professional in Marketing (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Yammer - Great if it's the only tool you use.

Rating: 3 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yammer is implemented at our institution as another avenue for employees to connect and create engagement. This was implemented prior to the 2020 pandemic but has been accelerated in its use since.

Pros

It integrates into Office 365
It provides company-wide connection on one platform
It has mobile and desktop support

Cons

It competes with tools present in other Office 365 products
While integrated, it isn't intuitively accessible from multiple points in the ecosystem
Other products achieve Yammer's outcomes in better ways

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are an organization that does not allow social integrations to your technology tools, Yammer provides a good option that allows for some engagement activities while limiting exposure to tools outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Verified User

Manager (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Yammer Review Recap

Rating: 8 out of 10

May 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MS Yammer is currently utilized at my organization to ease interdepartmental communications between various users.
The ease of use affords users to keep their respective email inboxes a bit cleaner. Yammer has also been utilized as a social medium to keep users apprised of events and updates in other departments across the country.

Pros

User interface.
Ease of use.
Adaptability.

Cons

Lack of integration with other MS Office.

Likelihood to Recommend

Yammer is well-suited to serve as an internal social media platform for company events.
The user interface and quick and response.

It is not appropriate for detailed, in-depth conversations.

Elibe Elibe

Project Management in Engineering at Ryan Companies (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

A great tool for enterprise communications

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 14, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Yammer to promote group an inter-group collaboration as well as a means to share the latest news.

Pros

Integrates extremely well with a range of MS applications like Office and SharePoint.
Easy to integrate with 3rd party sides.

Cons

Adoption by colleagues could take some time as not many have heard of it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Yammer is well suited for enterprise collaboration groups.

Samuel Gomez Recuero

Technical Support Specialist in Customer Service at Canadian Cancer Society (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Easy, simple, and effective

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 14, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Yammer as a company bulletin board. We share new employee hires and resignations, company successes, and areas for improvement, process flows, and documents, region or team-specific news and more. The entire company uses Yammer. We have a range of all-company forums based on category and several department-specific forums. Using Yammer allows us to share information with the company without it getting lost in email inboxes. We find it better it a better tool for information that has a long life or needs to be referred back to at a later time, compared to using instant messaging tools like Slack (which we use for briefer announcements).

Pros

Email notifications for posts you have missed/might be of interest to you. Prompts you to open up Yammer and see missed announcements. This helps you keep up to date.
Stable application, rarely (if any) downtime which is important if you want staff to regularly refer back to it.
Historical posts are stored and can easily be accessed. This means it can be used as a repository and new staff members can read past announcements.

Cons

It needs better search functionality. It should allow you to filter search records by date or users or groups.
Bland user interface. It's a clean interface, but the design could be uplifted. Might help with user engagement if the design was modernized.
No clear way of organizing groups in the navigation menu which makes it hard to easily find groups you have to access.
You can add members to a group, but you have to search for members by name. It would be good if it could show all company members not in the group so you can invite members you think should be in the group.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are a company with 50 employees with seven different departments. It helps us communicate across the company as well as departmental messages. Good for storing process related messages and documents. We encourage new employees to read through the history of specific groups so they understand processes, decisions, and actions.

Nikhil George

Product Manager in Product Management at Spotlight Reporting (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Fantastic product that’s very intuitive!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Yammer is being used across our whole organization. Our main use of Yammer is to get people involved with our different employee network groups. We’ve found it to be a great collaborative solution where we can give individuals the opportunity to work and chat with people they may not have the opportunity too on a daily basis.

Pros

It creates great collaboration.
Easy method to stay in constant contact with other employees.
It creates a casual, yet professional environment for people to share ideas.

Cons

The UI isn’t the greatest.
We’d like to see my updates to the platform to work out some kinks.
Allow more customization by companies.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Yammer is well suited for a collaborative environment where employees have the opportunity to work with one another in a very casual way. It is less appropriate when using the platform for very serious conversations. We’ve found it to be more of an instant messaging software, so we would recommend staying away from it if it needs to be more than that for your organization.

Verified User

Analyst (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Easy, simple, and effective

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 14, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Email notifications for posts you have missed/might be of interest to you. Prompts you to open up Yammer and see missed announcements. This helps you keep up to date.
Stable application, rarely (if any) downtime which is important if you want staff to regularly refer back to it.
Historical posts are stored and can easily be accessed. This means it can be used as a repository and new staff members can read past announcements.

Cons

It needs better search functionality. It should allow you to filter search records by date or users or groups.
Bland user interface. It's a clean interface, but the design could be uplifted. Might help with user engagement if the design was modernized.
No clear way of organizing groups in the navigation menu which makes it hard to easily find groups you have to access.
You can add members to a group, but you have to search for members by name. It would be good if it could show all company members not in the group so you can invite members you think should be in the group.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nikhil George

Product Manager in Product Management at Spotlight Reporting (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience