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?
Teams all alone might not take away yammer. But with delve growing in a fast pace, if the missing feeds part of the yammer built in delve, then along with teams, groups & delve; yes, Yammer is going to fade away. We already see not much of O365 user using Yammer.
I think in enterprise social space both of them have their own individual space. Teams is more for private conversations and realtime chat and yammer is more for public group chat and widespread communications. Unless Microsoft decides to club both these products into one they will have their own space.
I do not think that Teams will replace Yammer based on the Inner circle vs Outer circle that Microsoft announced at Ignite in 2017 with the Modern Workspace. https://ignitehighlights.wordpress.com/modern-workplace-microsoft-365/
This will always depend on the organizations collaboration culture. Microsoft has committed that over the next few months they will be “innovating on the fundamental enterprise social experience that Yammer delivers”. https://ignitehighlights.wordpress.com/yammer/
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I do not think so. If Yammer goes away, I do not think it will be a result of Microsoft Teams taking over. We have to remember the focus of each of the applications. Microsoft Teams is for your “inner circle” communications among your close teams. Yammer is built for enterprise wide communication outside of your “inner circle”.
I’m not an expert on either, but from what I’ve seen Teams is much better integrated with SharePoint and the whole O365 ecosystem. This is key because Yammer still feels like a 3rd party tool.
