Yammer: Why did it win the TC50?
Yammer seems promising in the sense that simplifies interaction among peers within a “firewalled” environment.
Yammer, however lacks the staying power to enter the corporate environment. Corporations will not be willing to give up their data to third party managed services that do not comply with strict security regulations.
Moreover, the data would remain in Yammer’s database and corporations will be exposed to potentially flimsy security policies. This is not a winning solution to bring Twitter style conversations to within the firewall.
There are other options, of course. One of them is wordpress’ prologue. The theme for wordpress that allows folks to create twitter-like groups for micro blogging is open source and can be installed and secured within the firewall. The data remains secure and the exposure is minimized.
