Today, Microsoft officially announced the acquisition of Yammer with price of $ 1.2 billion. From now on, Yammer will become a part of Microsoft Office Department, leads by Kurt Delbene. The whole team continues to report to the current CEO David Sacks.
"Yammer will be an important addition to Microsoft's cloud services and this acquisition underscores our commitment to helping customers move to the cloud. Together we'll deliver the most complete solution in the marketplace," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.
Yammer will continue to develop its software, iPhone cases maintaining "its commitment to simplicity, innovation and cross-platform experiences." Microsoft will also work to accelerate Yammer's adoption in conjunction with complementary Microsoft products like SharePoint, Office 365, Dynamics and Skype, iPhone 4s cases.
Yammer achieved explosive growth in 2011, with the number of subscribers increased from 300,000 to 800,000, the total number of users increased from 1.6 million to 4 million. Not only that, Yammer's employees growed from 80 to 250. iPhone accessories In addition, there are 200,000 enterprises use Yammer service for internal communication and collaboration, which includes 85% enterprises of Fortune 500. In 2011, the revenue of Yammer turned over and reach to $ 25 million, which compared to 2010.
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