Yammer Launches Social Apps For The Enterprise

By Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-09-30

Yammer, an enterprise social network, has released a new 2.0 version of its site with a focus on applications.

The new applications allow users to poll co-workers, invite co-workers to events and the ability to share URLs with co-workers that feature videos and images.

Other features include the ability to tag content by topics, improved navigation, better analytics and see who is online in real-time.

Yammer developed its new applications on its own platform using no proprietary programming languages. While other platforms allow for static messages in the feed, Yammer's platform enables dynamic content that updates in real-time. For example, a user can see real-time updates to polls in the message feed. Yammer's own applications will be open sourced so that developers can utilize them as examples.

Additionally, the following features built on the new Yammer platform are now in private beta:

Questions -- Ask co-workers and quickly find answers in a searchable knowledgebase.

Ideas -- Find and categorize the best ideas in your company. Employees rank ideas through voting.

Tasks -- Quickly assign a task resulting from a conversation and track its completion.

Translation -- Translate Yammer messages into over 100 different languages.

Chat -- Chat with one or multiple colleagues. Add an additional participant to a chat conversation at any time.

"We are thrilled and grateful about the enthusiasm for the new Yammer among our customers who provided extensive feedback during the beta program," said David Sacks, Yammer CEO.

"By adding Yammer and partner applications that address a variety of business functions, Yammer becomes the internal communications hub for customers."

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