I’ve read all of the inner / outer circle blogs about where to use Yammer and where to use Teams, but they pretty much do the same job. As Teams grows and becomes more mature as a product then it will be able to do everything Yammer can. You can now also have external guests join your Teams, Team.
So my question is … do you think Teams will eventually replace Yammer, if so why?
Are you an organization that’s successfully using both?
I believe that with the rise of Teams Yammer will have a hard time to keep alive due to the social alternatives out there like the Facebooks and WeChats of this world.
Yammer had to usages before Teams was there: Social Platform and Team collaboration. The last aspect is now replaced by Teams leaving only the social platform to be taken serious.
In my experience people like to keep work and private life separated on the app level. I see a lot of social interaction from our global users outside Office 365, with Facebook, WeChat and WhatsApp for example.Â
And if we consider the outer circle aspect in an organization then the modern communication/news and hub pages are taking over a lot of the global communication functionality.
In case you want as an organization to have your own social platform like Yammer where your employees interact on social bases you need to find an incentive that offers more than the other players already do. Yammer as an app is lacking here a lot of features I think. It balances at the moment too much inbetween Teams (the real Team collaboration app) and a social platform. Only if Microsoft really uplifts Yammer with an modern experience like its competitors it has a real chance.
