Tuesday, March 26, 2013

SharePoint-Yammer integration promising, but fusion will take time

<p>CIOs and IT managers tracking the progress of the SharePoint-Yammer integration got more details about the road map last week, but the updates were a sobering reminder of the long road ahead as Microsoft works to mesh the two products.</p><p>It's been about eight months since Microsoft closed the $1.2 billion Yammer acquisition, a deal that electrified the enterprise social collaboration market and signalled Microsoft's sense of urgency that it improve SharePoint in this area.</p><p>While Microsoft has made some moves with Yammer - lowering its price and bundling it with some editions of Office 365 - the first concrete integration points will be delivered this summer, and they will be modest ones.</p><p>Deeper integration will follow in the autumn, with more next year, but it's clear the grand vision of fusing Yammer with SharePoint and making it the underlying enterprise social layer across Office, Lync, Exchange and Dynamics is a long-term, complicated endeavour.</p><p><a href="http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3436925/sharepoint-yammer-integration-promising-but-fusion-will-take-time/?intcmp=HPF3">Keep reading...</a></p>

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