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HCL Connections vs Yammer
October 19, 2024 | Author: Adam Levine
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HCL Connections (formerly IBM Connections) is social software for business that lets you access everyone in your professional network, including your colleagues, customers, and partners.
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Yammer is revolutionizing internal corporate communications by bringing together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network. Although Yammer is as easy to use as alternative consumer products like Facebook or Twitter, it is enterprise-class software built from the ground up to drive business objectives.
HCL Connections and Yammer are both enterprise social networking platforms and one might be forgiven for thinking they do roughly the same thing. However, like a fork and a spoon at a formal dinner, they are designed for slightly different, though equally crucial, purposes. HCL Connections, for instance, is the kind of platform that practically begs for your projects, your documents, your ideas and possibly your hopes and dreams, to come sit in a carefully organized virtual room and have a polite conversation. It's a place where files are shared, discussions are held and everything happens in a tidy, centralized manner, as if someone, somewhere, is very keen on ensuring nothing ever gets lost behind the digital sofa.
Yammer, on the other hand, is far less concerned with tidiness and far more interested in getting people talking—preferably at once and ideally with a poll about office snacks involved. Yammer is the office water cooler on a global scale, where real-time communication flows like coffee on a Monday morning and every employee has an equal opportunity to leap in, share an idea, or start a group about obscure hobbies no one knew they needed. It fosters a sense of community by encouraging open dialogue, which, depending on your company culture, could either be a very good thing or a sign that you should log out immediately before someone starts a debate on meeting lengths.
In short, while HCL Connections carefully lays out your collaborative work like a finely curated buffet, Yammer jumps up and shouts, "Why don't we all just chat about it right now?" And, as with many things in life, the one you choose depends entirely on whether your workday feels more like a quiet brainstorming session or a lively pub debate.
See also: Top 10 Intranet Portals
Yammer, on the other hand, is far less concerned with tidiness and far more interested in getting people talking—preferably at once and ideally with a poll about office snacks involved. Yammer is the office water cooler on a global scale, where real-time communication flows like coffee on a Monday morning and every employee has an equal opportunity to leap in, share an idea, or start a group about obscure hobbies no one knew they needed. It fosters a sense of community by encouraging open dialogue, which, depending on your company culture, could either be a very good thing or a sign that you should log out immediately before someone starts a debate on meeting lengths.
In short, while HCL Connections carefully lays out your collaborative work like a finely curated buffet, Yammer jumps up and shouts, "Why don't we all just chat about it right now?" And, as with many things in life, the one you choose depends entirely on whether your workday feels more like a quiet brainstorming session or a lively pub debate.
See also: Top 10 Intranet Portals
