Deploying its analysis software for email and collaborative tools might also give the company a competitive edge. The move to a cloud-based release will be good for the company, as it allows the software to updated far more frequently, Lepofsky said. Google is also testing a new app called Inbox, which has been designed to improve upon Gmail with new features intended to simplify email management. Microsoft just added a new feature to Office365, called Clutter, designed to help prioritize email. The market for enterprise e-mail services is a competitive one, with service providers quickly adding new features to streamline the way email is handled by organizational employees. 'While I don't think there is a single 'killer feature' of IBM Verse, it's the combination of email, tasks, calendar and people that will enable enterprise users to focus on what they need to respond to, who they need to connect with and what they need to get done,' Alan Lepofsky, a principal analyst at Constellation Research, said in an e-mail. Today, 108 billion work e-mails are sent each day, according to the Radcati Research Group. Users can submit reports and other information to the service, and conduct searches against the collected material.īy adding all this informational context, IBM is hoping to make the experience of using email more useful. The email service will also offer access to the company's Watson machine-learning based analysis engine. The company has upgraded the search capability, offering users a way to drill down for specific information found not only in the email messages but attachments as well. Verse observes the user's email habits over time and arrives at estimates of which email will be most pertinent., The service can sort email depending on its level of importance, as evaluated by the software. The calendar does not require a separate page, but rather runs along the bottom of the e-mail page, where upcoming events can be quickly viewed.

For group e-mails, it can generate a summary of each of the participants, and show how each party is related to one another in the work context.

The interface also generates a summary of information that might be of interest to the user: It can highlight upcoming appointments and tasks that should be completed.

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