Enterprise social. It’s not the greatest thing since sliced bread (The Beatles, frozen custard and computer-generated animation all make stronger cases for that title) but lately it seems like it’s close. That said, for all of its growing popularity, our experience tells us that a good deal of what people believe about social networks– and how to […]
Posts Tagged ‘yammer’
Why We Collaborate – Exploring Yammer Maturity & Engagement
A few weeks ago, a colleague posted a TED Radio Hour from NPR on our Perficient Yammer network titled – “Why We Collaborate”. After listening to the broadcast, I thought this would be a perfect segway into a post I have been working on for a while now. I want to discuss some of the […]
Will Enterprise Collaboration Drive Digital Transformation?
CIO.com has an article titled, “Enterprise Collaboration Will Drive Digital Transformation“. Perhaps a more descriptive but longer title would be, “Digital Transformation Will Happen But Those Who Succeed Will Collaborate Across The Enterprise” It’s not the catchiest title of course. However, it highlights how to make any transformation successful. The author, Matt Kapko, notes “The CIO […]
Office Graph and Oslo in Office 365 – Finally Here?
If this is the first time you heard about “Oslo” then here is a quick introduction for you: Oslo is a new way to search and discover content across O365 based on personalized insights. These new insights are derived from each users’ behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one another. The idea is to […]
Yammer 101 Series – Topics
What do you do when you have a great idea you want to share with your company network? And you want to make sure it is not buried in the company newsfeed that everyone seems to be posting to? And you need to make sure the post is extremely easy to retrieve later on? The […]
Office 365 Roadmap Communications
Overview: Last week Microsoft hosted a Roadmap Communications discussion forum to align with the new Office 365 for business public roadmap. Panel involved experts from Microsoft and Office 365 MVP’s. I am sharing the summary here for everyone’s benefit. Specific topics: · Roadmap at a glance · General Questions & Functionality · First Release · Yammer ROADMAP […]
Office 365 Feature Rollout and First Release Program
Did you always feel Office 365 has been going through rapid updates and you as a customer or partner are left with no insight? Until now Microsoft has been rolling out features without regard to the tenant profile. There is generally no process for partners to get updates before or after customers. I personally know […]
Yammer – DirSync or AD FS (SSO) or Both?
There’s a lot to think about when planning your Enterprise Yammer implementation. How will I get users into Yammer? How will users login to Yammer? Which password will they use? How will users who leave my organization be handled in Yammer? What software do I really need to implement? This post is all about Yammer […]
Forrester Ranks Office 365 + Yammer Tops in Strategy
Forrester recently released their Enterprise Social Platforms Wave. I like Forrester’s Wave approach because of the depth of information on a variety of scored points. While I cannot divulge the entire report, I can show a glimpse of where Office 365 + Yammer stand and tell you a few points why. For the complete review, […]
HIMSS Survey: 80% of Healthcare orgs are using Cloud Services
According to a recent HIMSS survey 80% of healthcare organizations have already adopted cloud based services. In addition according to HIMSS “Nearly all cloud adopters plan to expand their cloud services; areas for growth include archived data, disaster recovery and hosting operational applications and data”. “The top three reasons for adopting cloud services include lower […]
Developing for Office 365 and SharePoint
Recently I participated in a Microsoft developer discussion on the Yammer Network where some great ideas were shared. I am re posting a summary of the session posted in that group here for everyone’s benefit ——————————– Overview: Microsoft responses to questions are provided by Chris Johnson, Sonya Koptyev, Jeremy Thake, Dorrene Brown, Mauricio Ordonez, Brian Jones, Ricky Kirkham, Christophe Fiessinger, […]
Yammer 101 Series – Groups
What are Yammer Groups? Groups are logical containers for sharing conversations, files and notes in Yammer based on a single business purpose or goal. What are the benefits of Groups? Groups are the foundation for organizing content in Yammer networks, providing immediate business value when collaborating. Some of the benefits include: 1) Targeting your message […]