Anyone can easily start a Yammer network for free and invite co-workers to join.
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That's three-quarters as many people as Salesforce has using its software, though there's one big difference: Anyone with a corporate e-mail address can sign up for Yammer, free, and connect with others in the same company.
That means IT administrators need to authorize Chatter usage and potential members have to first receive an invite to join. (A new Web site Salesforce is launching in February may address this.) Meanwhile, anyone with a corporate email account can sign up for Yammer.
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Microblogs like Twitter (or business versions like Yammer) are useful for quick customer support, a bit of marketing, listening to customers and link sharing, Byrne says.
The Yammer premium version provides tools for IT administrators and enterprise features such as Active Directory sync, single sign-on support, and integration modules for SharePoint, NetSuite, Salesforce.com and others.
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Yammer was created as a tool for the staff to use internally to communicate with each other in Twitter-like messages.
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But he revealed that the family did use Yammer - the private social network for organisations which is among the firms he will visit today.
He is the CEO and founder of Yammer, which is essentially the Facebook for the enterprise.
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David Sacks, who left PayPal in 2002 and now runs Yammer, a social-network site for businesses, met Thiel at Stanford, where they were members of the same eating club.
Yammer has a free version of its software for anyone to use, then a pay version with more features that an IT department might want.
Enterprise applications are getting sexy for the first time, like Yammer.
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Complementing a central HR system implementation, products like SharePoint server can act a central hub for collaboration and information management, while Yammer can facilitate social networking and performance management, and Lync can enable VoIP, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and more.
Upstarts Yammer and Jive Software are selling similar social networking tools for businesses.
Jive Software, IBM Connections, Yammer and other social business suites offer APIs and frameworks for embedding its functionality or putting a collaborative chrome around other applications.
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Forrester Research analyst Anthony Mullen agreed, saying the takeover, which follows the recent acquisition of workplace social network Yammer, showed the company's efforts to do more for businesses as well as for consumers.
Yammer has built its reputation and business on being a communications tool for the connected age, a quite different approach to the ESN.
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