What Office 2013 tools to use

We are currently working on rolling out Office 2013, Sharepoint online (Office 365), including Yammer and the Sharepoint 2013 collaboration tools.
With the business change management we are finding users concerned about using the right tools for the right things.  I am wondering if anyone has a tool matrix for sharepoint 2013, office 2013 and Yammer and when to use each of the different tools?
Has anyone got a matrix like this or a recommendation of where to look?

Hi,
have you looked at this?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/dn342872.aspx
and this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj871004.aspx
These Partner blogs often have some really useful content (take a stroll through the blog archives):
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2013/10/25/end-user-adoption-kit.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2013/09/30/office-365-change-management-guide-and-resources.aspx
I also find the education-sector blogs are very useful source of ideas for our enterprise:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/education/archive/2013/10/29/how-to-build-a-buzz-about-office-365-for-your-users.aspx
In my organisation, we have deployed a wide range of MS products over many years, and have found that different parts of the business find very different levels of value in different product features.
Much of our organisation is heavily using Yammer (prior to the MS acquisition of Yammer, and still does), and Communicator/Lync (although there is quite a bit of feature overlap there for chat/discussion features, really)
We use SharePoint for a multitude of things.
At the moment, other than Yammer, we are using all on-premises integrated stuff, but are soon to commence a hybrid implementation.
Don
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