IBM Verse fixes email to give you back your day.
If you have been around the IBM software ecosystem this week, you probably couldn't have missed our announcement about IBM Verse. IBM has been working to bring the world of social collaboration into a context where many of us still work - email.
Most of us still use IBM Notes, Microsoft Outlook or some other email client as the primary place we work. We use it for filing, for storage, for search, for communicating and well, for being able to be productive at work. The trouble is, these days, email clients are not designed for this. If you are under the age of about 35 you probably only have a small number of folders with thousands of emails in them. If you're older than 35 you probably have tens if not hundreds of folders and spend a significant part of your time diligently filing your emails for later retrieval.
Most of us, though, rarely look for and seldom find the emails we're looking for. Lots of us, when on vacation come back to hundreds of unread mail, most of which are either for information, or if they were urgent, have probably been actioned by someone else in your absence.
The truth is, that emailing replaced the paper memo and as a result the explosion in information - both relevant and irrelevant - which lands on our desk is overwhelming. Email has become a hindrance not a help to daily business.
Smarter organizations have realized that social collaboration solutions such as IBM Connections can move much of the information chatter out of email and into centralized communities where people can work together productively and with purpose.
Until now, however, a social enterprise still had to struggle with a decidedly unsocial email world. That's until IBM unveiled Verse. It is intended to bring the social enterprise (the "we") to the email user (the "me"). It interconnects sharing and collaboration with messaging to give you the opportunity to see through the forest of information you get every day and help you be better at work. Who knows, you might even get home on time!