Comments on: Microsoft SharePoint and Yammer Integration

By: Giovanni Westbrook

Giovanni Westbrook — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:47:07 +0000

I’ve been a SharePoint (365)use for over 8 years. My company was
tired of the Microsoft game of third party add-ons for just about everything.
It was hard to keep up with every time we wanted to implement a new process
like social capabilities we would have to find an add-on and spend more money
for a system that should have already came with these capabilities out the box.
After a little research and few demos we found Centralpoint by Oxcyon.
Centralpoint came with over 230 modules out the box. It was an easy transfer
from SharePoint to Centralpoint and a great jump start out the box.

I found out a few years ago it was time for a SharePoint
alternative when we found out that SharePoint wasn’t by far ready to use out
the box. Like the fact that SharePoint social capabilities aren’t the best. We
even bought in to the Yammer integration. All the third party option SharePoint
has the options for kept my team learning more and more about different
products and shown no really productivity. I did a quick Google and found out this new user platform could easily
create productive for us. We were using SharePoint but between the licensing,
I.T. staff cost, and the fact that it didn’t have any real social capabilities
made us search for a new CMSs fast.

By: avnibhatt

avnibhatt — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 06:07:19 +0000

Hi,
How can we implement profile syc.? As in , instead of sync with AD, can we sync User Profile properties into Yammer?

By: Microsoft Sharepoint

Microsoft Sharepoint — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:01:01 +0000

Wow! Thanks for this great informations :) LG, Lisa von Microsoft Sharepoint

By: Mark Polly

Mark Polly — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:43:01 +0000

In reply to Darren. Thanks for the comments. I've had some internal discussions with some colleagues about this and your comments have added to our discussion.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:49:25 +0000

I suspect the main reason that SharePoint 2013 isn’t listed within the systems requirements is that it isn’t publicly available yet (only to volume-licensed customers which doesn’t count as ‘general availability’).

Yammer integration isn’t seen as conflicting with SharePoint 2013’s social capabilities. The Social Roadshows going on at the moment are highlighting both solutions and advocating the integration. Yammer is a cloud-based solution, SharePoint can run in the cloud or on-premises. Customers can choose which solution to use for social capabilities, and sometimes that will determined by their acceptance of cloud solutions (some customers have a no-cloud policy). The future roadmap for SharePoint / Yammer integration is not public yet, but it will support customers’ current decisions to use one or the other.