With the new release of MangoApps 11.1, we decided to review how MangoApps Team Collaboration Software stacks up against its Microsoft’s Yammer. Keep in mind that MangoApps has split its product into two products — team collaboration and social intranet. This article will give you a detailed review of the platform and explore the difference between our team collaboration product and Yammer. We will analyze the features that have been added to MangoApps’ Team Collaboration Software and discuss how it enhances employee’s efficiency, productivity, and collaboration. Along the way, we will discuss how it compares with Yammer

1. www.mangoapps.com
Team Collaboration | Social Intranet

2. With the new release of MangoApps 11.1, we decided to review how MangoApps Team Collaboration
Software stacks up against its Microsoft’s Yammer. Keep in mind that MangoApps has split its product into
two products — team collaboration and social intranet. This article will give you a detailed review of the
platform and explore the difference between our team collaboration product and Yammer. We will analyze
the features that have been added to MangoApps’ Team Collaboration Software and discuss how
it enhances employee’s efficiency, productivity, and collaboration. Along the way, we will discuss how it
compares with Yammer.
We have also done a comparison among the rest of the best team collaboration software in the world. You
can have a look here: Slack, Jive- N, Yammer, IBM Connections, Podio, and Tibbr.
Here is the side-by-side comparison with Yammer:
FEATURES MANGOAPPS YAMMER
Personalization Yes No
Customizable dashboard Yes No
News feed Yes No
Profile Directory Yes No
Deep file search Yes No
Gamification Levels & Badges Yes No
Question & answer Yes No
Idea Yes No
Wiki Yes No
Data retention feature Yes No
File Versioning & Authoring Yes No
Project Yes No
Calendar/Event Yes No
Tracker Yes No
Analytic Yes No
Blog post Yes No
To Do’s Yes No
Real Time Messaging Yes No
CRM Yes No
Media Gallery Yes No
Branding Yes No
Multiple Organization Yes No
Multiple Deployment Option Yes No
Business Integration Yes Yes
SSO Yes Yes
Task Yes Yes
Group Yes Yes
Employee recognition Yes Yes
Poll Yes Yes
Mobile Apps Desktop App Yes Semi

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Yammer
MangoApps vs Yammer- Find out Which is the best Team Collaboration Software
SSO- Yammer SSO stopped working after December 1, 2016. You will need Office 365 to have
an SSO, which can be very annoying for users who are not interested in getting the rest of the
Office 365 suite.
Tasks – Yammer does not have this option and expects users to use notes or the file sharing option
to complete project tasks. MangoApps, on the other hand, lets you create tasks and see all of them
across multiple projects on one screen at the same time.

4. Employee Recognition – This feature on Yammer is called “Praise,” which allows you to
recognize your colleagues for a job well done. Whether it’s for closing a sales deal, launching a
successful product, or giving an exceptional presentation, providing recognition is easy.
Mobile & Desktop Apps – Although Yammer does not have a desktop app just yet, it does have a
mobile app. You can stay connected with team updates, messages, and notifications with the
Yammer mobile app with push notifications, full retina display inbox etc.
Groups – Yammer helps get your work into one place so you can share conversations and
collaborate on documents. MangoApps has the same features as Yammer, but you also have a
group calendar where you can share group events, trainings, and meetings. You can export group
data, transfer owner rights, archive unused groups, and create folders to keep your group files
organized.
Business Integrations– You can integrate business applications via Open Graph. While this lets
you bring people, conversations, and data from different business apps into Yammer, the problem is
that most of their apps are third party and there are very few built-in features.
Yammer Conclusion:
To summarize, MangoApps has continued to re-invent itself time and time again. With every
release, it has solved more customer and organization pain points than most other team
collaboration software options. To truly make Yammer competitive with MangoApps,
Yammer would require the rest of the Office 365 suite (SharePoint, Lync, and One drive) to also be
part of the employee collaboration — only then would it be comparable with MangoApps’ standard
out-of-the-box solution.
MangoApps covers all the essential bases very well. Productivity, ease of use, employee
engagement and recognition, cost saving, and most importantly, security.
In the past, the one piece of feedback MangoApps received over and over was that there were too
many features on one platform. However, after the latest release and the split into two new
products — Team Collaboration and Social Intranet — the product looks a lot more compact, is less
crowded, and is better able to give customers the freedom of only accessing what they really need.

5. MangoApps Team Collaboration
Personalization – Unlike most collaboration software, where there is a set menu on the dashboard,
MangoApps has an algorithm that helps match your unique behavior needs and interests, which it
presents on your dashboard. You can further personalize it to reflect your membership in teams, co-
workers you follow, colleague and group suggestions, information that you have pinned, etc.
Customizable Dashboard – This is a great email alternative which helps bring the organization’s
collective intelligence out of the email inbox and on to the dashboard. With its built-in widgets and
easy-to-use UI, you don’t need a developers support. A simple drag and drop helps move content
around, and you can re-size elements in a few clicks.
News Feed – News feeds across most social platforms have a similar UX — so does Jive and
MangoApps — but the difference in features is considerable. Much like Gmail, MangoApps lets
you see what matters most first by classifying it as primary vs secondary. “Mentions,” much like
tagging on Facebook, shows you whenever you have been mentioned by one of your peers
separately. You can pin news pieces for a later read. The news feed also gives you access to files,
polls, question & answers, wikis, and more.

6. SSO – The Single Sign On MangoApps has is with other authentication systems or applications like
GoogleApps or LDAP/AD Microsoft, etc. This is an in-built SSO system by MangoApps, which
not only enhances the user’s security profile, but also makes it easier for the IT department/admin
to audit where and how the credentials are used. Most industries with sensitive information, like
financial/IT services, can reap the benefits of this feature.
Profile Directory – MangoApps allows you to create custom fields and designations of your
choice within a profile directory. An easily searchable profile directory can also benefit big
enterprises through increased productivity. For example, a manager or employee can
easily find help on different projects by analyzing an employee’s profile and quickly searching their
qualifications and experience. Each user’s profile page shows areas of expertise, awards received
for their expertise and good work, badges received, posts they have shared, and more, making it
easy to find specific strengths and skills within an organization.
Deep File Search – This feature enhances productivity for individuals. It allows you to not only
search for files by title keywords, but also to search by using keywords found within documents and
files. These files include all Microsoft Office and PDF documents that can be inside archives or
compressed files.
Gamification Levels & Badges – This is a one-of-a-kind feature that helps drive employee
satisfaction and engagement by awarding badges based on employee activity and contribution
within the organization. This feature creates friendly competition and highlights top influencers and
contributors.
Employee Recognition – Unlike Yammer’s “Praise” feature, this takes things to the next level. The
admin can customize and set policies for who can give awards and in which category. The admin
can create a points and bonuses system to make it unique to your company. The awards/badges are
further highlights on the employee’s profile, which builds a culture that promotes identifying and
endorsing employees.
Polls – Like Yammer, this community tool also has an option to conduct polls, but with a few
added features. You can direct polls across the company, to specific groups, or just to your set of
followers. Adjust how long your polls run by setting an expiration date to get timely responses.

7. Question & Answers – This is another feature that enables productivity through team
collaboration. IT helps connect a subject matter expert with an employee that needs
specific information (e.g., information on specialized topics, complicated internal processes,
projects, products, etc.). Top contributors and influencers get highlighted automatically by the
enterprise social network and win points which relate back to the employee recognition program.
Before asking the question, an employee can use the advanced search option to search for
employees with the right expertise to answer them (yet another way the customized employee
profile helps).
Ideas – This is another feature that most collaboration apps don’t have. MangoApps makes this a
unique function that offers everyone in the company the opportunity to come up with new product
ideas — ideas that are based on market trends. This stand-alone feature helps reduce R&D cost for
an enterprise by providing a type of idea life cycle management. You can evaluate benefits,
estimate potential costs, forecast future success with greater ease, and deliver results with
reliability.
Wikis – MangoApps Wikis is a perfect tool and an email alternative, which uses the WYSIWYG
editor to collaborate online. This allows you to create, share, and discuss your documents, ideas,
minutes, milestones, and projects. The rich content editor makes it easy for anyone to edit quickly
and securely.
Data Retention and Compliance – This is a great feature for law associations, banks, IT firms, or
any other company with highly sensitive information. If you would like certain information to
appear for a specific amount of time and then later be deleted or archived, you can choose auto-
archival or auto-delete in the retention settings to fit your personal or compliance requirements.
File Versioning and Co-Authoring – This feature, which is not present in Jive, really defines team
collaboration and is in fact a SharePoint alternative. This feature gives you the ability to access the
expertise of different subject matter experts from different departments across the globe. Let’s say
you are in the marketing department and need to write a document on a new product release. You
can team up with a member of your development team to give technical insights on the operation of
the product and complete the project with ease.
Projects – This is one feature that has not fully been developed to its potential compared to other
project management software in the market. However, it does have a decent set of functionalities.
You can customize the view of multiple projects, share an update, ask a question, do a poll, or
recognize a team member for any project. You can also allow customers and partners to be guest
users to give them transparency and visibility during a project.

8. Tasks – Tasks is one of the key features in any project management software. Unlike Yammer, this
is a built-in feature with MangoApps and does not require any third-party tool. Seeing all your tasks
across multiple projects on one screen helps keep people focused and allows them to plan their
tasks efficiently.
Mobile & Desktop Apps – Windows & Mac clients can connect to MangoApps without using
a browser. Replace email for internal private communication. Use MangoApps file synchronization
and all your files securely and automatically sync between your desktop and your online
MangoApps folder. MangoApps desktop and Mac clients receive notifications from co-workers
they follow.
Trackers – Track and coordinate anything within your team. With one centralized, always-
available project, task tracking assignments in your team enables better employee productivity.
Create trackers with columns varying from rich text, dropdown, date, price, file, etc. This is a great
feature for accounting and financial firms since you can now track countless items, audit lists, and
compliance checklists for your company.
Analytics – One of the most treasured features for MangoApps and its customers is tracking ROI
through the performance measurement of the MangoApps team community software. The analytics
feature lets you see dollars saved per month and the productivity time saved per employee. This is
calculated based on the activity of the user on the platform.
Blog Posts – This platform breaks employees out of silos and increases internal knowledge sharing
through bottom-up communication. MangoApps’ intuitive rich content editor makes it easy for
users of all levels to contribute to the blog post with rich content and to save a blog as a draft for
later.
To Do – Like Jive, MangoApps also has a Notes feature, but unlike MangoApps, Jive does not have
the added To-Do feature . The To-Do option allows you to set it by priority, due date, and status
(complete or pending). Now you don’t need to have another app for your task reminders.
Automatic Message Delete in Chat – The automatic message delete option in chat is an extremely
cool feature and very handy for companies with private information. You can set a timer to erase
any message sent to a colleague as soon as they have clicked and opened it. It’s almost like
something out of a Mission Impossible movie.
CRM – MangoApps does not have a fully-fledged CRM platform like many others in the same
space, but considering the amount of collaboration features this tool has, it is pretty impressive to
still be able to create an opportunity in the CRM, add a note, and even send an email to that
prospect.

9. Media Gallery – Just like your phone, this collaboration software has a gallery where anyone can
upload pictures, videos, and even audio from company-related events and office holiday parties.
You can also upload project-related pictures with clients and more.
Branding – This is an extremely unique and rare feature that is not available with Yammer. With
MangoApps, customers can choose to have their own company, department, or product name on
this community portal on the top right or as the banner, which makes it very exclusive and useful.
Multiple Organizations – This is an extremely handy feature as well specially for big companies
with multiple organizations. The organizations might represent distinct business units, geographies
or company subsidiaries. For example, a parent company might own 3 organizations with distinct
internet domain names like company.com, company.co.uk & company.co.de which can be modeled
as 3 organizations under one main domain all with similar features.
Multiple Deployment Option – Unlike any other collaboration software, MangoApps offers
shared cloud, which has six Amazon data centers across the world. This is a popular low-cost and
high-security cloud option. Private cloud gives you the best of both worlds — on cloud and high
security, which is every IT manager’s dream. On premise is more suited for banks and other
companies with highly sensitive information; you have complete control and the data is self-hosted
in your data center.
Business Integration – Much like other collaboration tools, this platform also connects with single
sign-on, file services, communication, online meetings, developer tools, customer support and
marketing, and lead generation business integration tools. This can further be customized as per the
requirement of an admin for their specific department.
Languages Supported – MangoApps has an option to translate to 150 languages. Customers can
simply choose the language they need to translate with a few clicks.
Support – MangoApps has some of the best support available for any product of this scale. Unlike
other solutions, MangoApps does not charge exorbitant fees and has the support prices built into the
contract itself. The collaboration software has standard support or priority support and it assigns the
response time depending on the case severity.