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THINKING OF A YAMMER MIGRATION?

If you’ve got content on other social platforms and would like to move it onto your Yammer network, we can help! WM Reply’s custom Yammer migration tool makes it easy to shift social content and keep the most valuable conversations.
From migrations of just a few hundred employees to large scale transfer of Yammer data for over 100,000 people – WM Reply can tailor our formulated process to your requirements.

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WHY MIGRATE?

It’s the Year of Yammer! Microsoft has heavily invested, not only in Yammer, but also in the connections to make sure Yammer, Teams, and SharePoint function better together. It is, however, important to understand whether a Yammer migration is the best option for you, as migrating content can be a considerable undertaking depending on the size of your existing network.

BENEFITS OF A YAMMER MIGRATION

SHARED IDEAS

One network means more comprehensive content and search capabilities that can make things easier for employees – especially new hires

COST SAVINGS

The cost of a migration from other social tools to Yammer typically pays for itself in license costs alone within the first year

DATA PROTECTION

As part of the Microsoft 365 suite, Yammer is backed by best-in-class Microsoft data security

WHAT DOES A TOOL MIGRATION LOOK LIKE?

An automated Yammer migration, facilitated by WM Reply, means content moved from other social platforms will appear on your Yammer network as if posted by individual users. We’ll duplicate content (including attachments), permissions and groups.

HOW DOES THE PROCESS WORK?

Understand Your Current Network

We run a script to understand how much content needs to be moved
Create Migration Criteria

We work with you to bring the right stuff across and leave irrelevant or duplicate content behind
Create Automated Processes

We’ll confirm sites, groups and conversations content owners are happy to exclude from migration

WHAT SOCIAL TOOLS CAN WE MIGRATE CONTENT FROM?

There are two main Yammer migration categories:

WM Reply’s migration tool does both.

Moving content from other social platforms onto your Yammer network
Migrating content from other Yammer networks onto yours

The temptation when you launch Yammer is to talk about Yammer, but really whatever is already important to the business should be the focus.

Angus Florance, Senior Product
Marketing Manager, Yammer

WM REPLY CASE STUDY:
CHATTER TO YAMMER MIGRATION

WM worked with a luxury British fashion house to migrate existing content from Chatter (a Salesforce product), to Yammer.

“With our assistance, they prepared migration metrics to determine what groups should be migrated. Then linked in with owners of the groups that weren’t included in that scope, so they had a chance to appeal their case. This was useful to catch seasonal groups, (for example, Employee Awards are run in November, but the associated group is dormant the rest of the year).” Alex Gibson, WM, explains.

WM wrote emails to communicate this, with targeted groups within the business, leading up to the migration. The whole thing took about three months.

“Enterprise Social Media is a core part of their day-to-day operations. It’s how they bridge the gap between their front-line workers (trade shows, store workers, etc.) and their office and executive staff.” explains Alex. “Much of the data also has value on a long-term basis. Catwalk photos and records of counterfeit clothes were captured and stored on Chatter.”

Being able to migrate to Yammer meant they didn’t need to lose that valuable content, or run two platforms side by side, confusing employees and increasing costs.