Inbox, Meet IBM Verse

Gmail recently launched a new app. They called it Inbox. It is by invitation only at this moment as they are testing this app. Google wanted to reimagine the new way people will look at their mail. I tried this app. If you have use Mailbox app before, a company which was later acquired by Dropbox, Google's Inbox is just like Mailbox. The idea is that to treat your mailbox like a giant To-Do list. Mails that you have actioned on can be mark completed. Mails that you need to follow up can be swiped and set a future date so it will remind you. Very simplistic and very nice.

But, is this really imagining a new way to work? A new disruption to emails? Time will tell.

Today, IBM launched a new mail service. It was codename IBM Mail Next but now there is a new name. It is called IBM Verse!

What are we announcing?

IBM Verse is a cloud-based, analytics-driven approach to enterprise email designed for today's social, mobile and data-driven workplace. IBM Verse uses built-in analytics to intelligently surface an employee's most critical actions based on preferences and behavior, bringing together multiple collaboration tools including in-box, calendar, social networks, chats, online meetings and documents.

What's different about IBM Verse?

This is unique to competitive offerings that continue to take an in-box, document-centric view of the world. We're focused squarely on helping employees organize, prioritize and execute work quickly and effectively with deep social integration, lightning fast search, analytics and mobile availability for iOS and Android. IBM Verse is enterprise email redesigned for the new era of computing. 

Forget the official mumbo jumbo worthy only as an official announcement.

IBM Verse brings a new, very clean, super compact interface. The objective is to remove your inbox clutter. Simplistic is the way to go. The other idea is that the email will learn your habit and help you get things done faster.

It is cloud base email and it sits on top of our popular public cloud, SoftLayer. What is cool is that when you look at your email and with a click of a button, you can find out details of people who sent you email. Very useful when you are going to meet a client and the client cc a few people to join the meeting, people you don't know - and using IBM Verse, you will be able to find more details through the analytics of social media, Linked In, twitter, etc.

You can instantly chat with people or share files - and through file sharing, you are actually sharing a link to the file stored in the cloud (ala Dropbox), not actually sending megabytes of files. And this helps reduce email size.

I think the best way is to view a video of IBM Verse