Yammer Technical
Solutions Overview
Audience and Requirements
The Yammer Technical Solutions Overview module is an
introduction to the Yammer Platform and the technical offerings
that can be provided to your customers with Yammer integration.
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Topics and Learning Objectives
This deck covers the following topics:
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The Yammer platform
The ways you can integrate Yammer with other applications
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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Describe the Yammer Platform
Identify the various integrations between Yammer and other technologies
The Yammer Platform
What is the Yammer Platform?
Yammer’s mission is simple: to transform the way we
work together. In a world that’s constantly changing,
innovative business and IT leaders need a new way to
work together to drive results. That’s why over 200,000
companies, including 85% of the Fortune 500, use
Yammer to:
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Make their business data social.
Foster team collaboration.
Drive business agility.
The Yammer Platform connects users across disparate
business applications. Everyone can collaborate
through a common conversation layer—no matter what
app they use.
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Collaborate
Yammer Makes Business Data Social
Yammer helps you pull in activity from across your business applications into a
single place where employees can easily discover and collaborate.
1. Ticker
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See activities taking place in real time
Accelerate distribution of information
through your network
2. Universal Search
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Use one search bar to search across
Yammer and existing business applications
3. Pages
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View each object shared on Yammer on its
own dedicated page
Yammer Increases Collaboration
Team Collaboration: Yammer improves team collaboration, spurs creativity and
facilitates decision-making.
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Improve team alignment.
Break down geographical and functional silos.
Quickly manage projects and events.
Employee Engagement: Yammer unleashes the full productivity of your workforce by
giving your employees a voice, as well as the information and tools they need to
thrive.
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Improve access to information and expertise.
Increase the effectiveness of company-wide communications.
Engage
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Yammer Improves Business Agility
Business Agility: With Yammer, you can merge cultures and connect employees,
crowdsource, collaborate, and accelerate the customer feedback loop when
entering new markets.
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Break down communication barriers.
Boost productivity.
Connect across cultures and geographies.
Social Intranet: Businesses today are investing in a new kind of intranet that is
social, easy to use, and can connect employees and systems across the enterprise.
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Get work done with Yammer as your intranet.
Drive productivity by making business applications social.
Get the best of both worlds with Yammer and SharePoint.
Yammer Integrations
What can Yammer Integrate with?
Yammer can easily integrate with:
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Online or on-premises applications
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Embeddable plug-ins
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REST Application Programming Interface (API)
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OpenGraph-enabled social apps
Integrate Yammer With SharePoint
Yammer integrates with Microsoft SharePoint Online and on-premises, allowing you
to embed Yammer feeds into SharePoint sites and manage them with built-in webpart controls.
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Log into Yammer using your SharePoint credentials.
Embed lightweight Yammer mini feeds anywhere in
SharePoint to help you keep track of relevant
discussions and SharePoint activity.
Manage, send, and receive Yammer messages
and activity directly in SharePoint.
Integrating With Microsoft Dynamics
Yammer integrates directly into Microsoft Dynamics Online work areas, enabling
real-time collaboration as well as control over conversations and system posts.
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Aggregate updates from Dynamics into
Yammer’s Ticker making it a central hub
for business activity.
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Use Yammer’s Universal Search to find
and discover Dynamics records.
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Administrators can control who may
post, and what types of records create
posts automatically.
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Users can control the amount of information
they see using the Follow and Unfollow buttons.
Yammer Embeddable Plug-ins
Yammer’s embeddable plug-ins allow employees to use a single identity and access
the same content across all of their business applications.
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Yammer Connect Login: Add the Login
Button to your business apps so that users
can log in with their Yammer accounts.
Embeddable Feeds: Embed any Yammer
feeds in your existing business apps.
Like and Follow Buttons: Yammer surfaces
more relevant content based on the
objects that users Like and Follow.
Yammer App Directory: There are many
business apps that connect with Yammer,
including the ones listed to the right.
The Yammer REST API
Yammer’s REST API provides a secure HTTP interface that allows you to easily
add social services to enterprise applications.
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The REST API helps you easily post messages or activity updates
from any platform due to the basic dependencies.
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Using the Data Export API, you can archive content from your
Yammer network. This can help meet compliance requirements, or
facilitate your own custom analysis of Yammer data.
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Reporting on data such as group memberships can provide useful
insight to community managers and for custom reports.
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Social networks have become increasingly important as a way to
sign users into applications. Implementing Sign-On with Yammer
using OAuth and REST helps you to improve the user experience of
your applications.
Yammer and the Enterprise Graph
Yammer uses the Open Graph protocol to connect applications to create the
Enterprise Graph: a single mapping of people and objects they encounter at work.
The Open Graph protocol provides an efficient framework for understanding data,
where an action defines the relationship between a person and an object. With this
framework, employees can collaborate on anything within the Enterprise Graph.
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Ready to Build a Yammer App?
The steps below can help you build an app on the Yammer platform.
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Visit the Yammer New App Registration page and Register
Your App to get the API key.
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Connect your app to Yammer and authenticate with OAuth
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Write data into Yammer using Open Graph
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Display data in your application using a Yammer Embed.
Now that you’ve built your app, make it ready for inclusion in
Yammer’s App Directory
and deploy it to a global audience!
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Learning Review and
Additional Resources
Learning Review
This deck covers the following topics:
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The Yammer platform
The ways you can integrate Yammer with other applications
After completing this course, you will be able to:
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Describe the Yammer Platform
Identify the various integrations between Yammer and other technologies
Additional Resources
The following resources can provide you with
additional information:
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The Communication Plan on the Yammer Success
Center provides an overview of the Yammer Platform.
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The Administration & Integrations section on the Yammer
Success Center has detailed information on each of
Yammer’s integrations.
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The Yammer Developer Network provides detailed
documentation on advanced integration topics such as
the Yammer REST API and the Open Graph Protocol.
Questions?