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Mattermost vs Yammer: What are the differences?
What is Mattermost? Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
What is Yammer? Yammer is a Private Social Network for Your Company. Yammer brings the power of social networking to your company. Collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.
Mattermost belongs to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack, while Yammer can be primarily classified under "Enterprise Collaboration".
Some of the features offered by Mattermost are:
- All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere
- Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others
- Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options
On the other hand, Yammer provides the following key features:
- Accessing Yammer- Access Yammer from anywhere with an internet connection. Stay connected from your web browser, mobile device, or tablet. You can also view and interact with Yammer content within other business applications -- such as Sharepoint - using our API integrations.
- People and Conversations- Whether your company spans seven cubicles or seven continents, Yammer helps your team collaborate on content, ask questions, share knowledge, and get work done.
- Content Collaboration- Create, discuss, and share content with coworkers without sending a single email. Store large files, post documents to team workspaces, and collaboratively edit Pages in real time.
Mattermost is an open source tool with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mattermost's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Mattermost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Yammer, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
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Pros of Mattermost
- Open source60
- On-premise deployment40
- Free26
- Built using golang22
- Fast and easy to use21
- Docker image provided for easy setup14
- Full text search14
- Built using react12
- Search and data archiving11
- Supports multiple teams11
- Very professional11
- Keeps us focused, effective, concise8
- Integration with Gitlab7
- Clean and simple look7
- Webhooks support7
- Use #Hashtags like Twitter6
- Well documented6
- Reactive community and ease of use3
- Import Slack logs3
- On-premises Deployment2
- Self managed data2
- Secure2
- Kanban1
- Easy webhook integration1
- Slack-compatible integrations1
- On premise installation1
- Checklists1
- Markdown support1
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Cons of Mattermost
Cons of Yammer
Cons of Mattermost
- Less integrations and plugins than slack2
- Many basic features are enterprise only2
- Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise2
- Basic permissions only in enterprise edition1
- Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB1
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What is Mattermost?
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
What is Yammer?
Yammer brings the power of social networking to your company. Collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.
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What are some alternatives to Mattermost and Yammer?
Slack
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
RocketChat
Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.
It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.
Riot
Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.
HipChat
HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.
Gitter
Free chat rooms for your public repositories.
A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.