Yammer’s New Desktop Version Gets More Social
Yammer upgrades the desktop version of its enterprise sharing and collaboration software, which now offers six new features. Most of the changes are designed to enhance the UI and the overall use experience. A group directory has been added so that users can navigate groups, including suggested ones, and access Yammer’s homepage in order to create a new one. They can also view a group feed inside a tab.
“In addition, the search bar is now accessible from any tab, and there have been a couple of changes made to make the app more compact: it’s now possible to adjust the size of the app on your monitor, and the Top Conversations, Followed Conversations and All Conversations filters have been toggled to a drop-down menu.
The latest Yammer Desktop also leverage features built for the Yammer website, such as real-time notifications, delivering an optimized experience so users can stay connected to their organizations from a standalone application outside of a browser window.”
Yammer has positioned itself as one of the bigger players in the social enterprise market, and this got the company some VC attention. Last month it raised an impressive $17 million in a fourth round of funding led by Social+Capital Partnership, founded by former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya. Existing backers Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participated.
Prior to date, Yammer announced Login Button, which lets users access their Yammer account by filling out a form within other applications.
The social enterprise market has attracted a large number of startups and relatively smaller services, including Podio. The company used to offer a collaboration feature for remote teams that also lets them create custom tools for specific tools, and has now extended its offering by announcing Employee Network. The latter offers a lot of the same features, only it’s scaled up to power organization-wide activity.
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