Yammer is expanding its services considerably with several new features announced on Tuesday. Many of the improvements to the enterprise social network focus on data.
Much of this surrounds the addition of Universal Search, which draws in data from files, pages, and conversations from any enterprise application to be available as a result in Yammer's search engine. Examples of those enterprise applications include integrated apps from Salesforce.com, SAP, and Microsoft SharePoint.
This also ties into the integration of Microsoft Dynamics. After selecting which accounts and records they want to follow, Yammer users will be able to see updates (such as changes to a record) from the CRM solution to appear as activity stories on the Yammer Ticker page.
Here's a rundown on the rest of the new features coming to Yammer:
It's not that difficult to understand Yammer's rapid and expansion lately. After all, the enterprise social network now has a customer base of more than five million corporate users and recently closed a $85 million round of venture capital funding -- bringing the total capital raised to-date to $142 million.
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