IBM launches social messaging software ‘Verse’

IBM has launched IBM Verse, an innovative new social messaging solution that incorporates built-in analytics to give people a new way to connect, communicate and find the right people and information fast.

IBM Verse integrates email, calendars, file sharing, instant messaging, social and more – all through a single collaborative, cloud-based environment.

Woven throughout the solution is analytics that intelligently and automatically surface users’ most important people and critical actions to focus on for the day. By learning unique user preferences and priorities over time, IBM Verse provides instant context on people and teams.

Delivered on the SoftLayer Cloud with enterprise-grade security, IBM Verse offers organisations big or small a scalable, cloud-based social collaboration offering.

IBM also plans to offer new native mobile apps for Verse that integrate with the IBM MobileFirst platform, including IBM MobileProtect, and starting with IBM iOS for iPhone later this month. IBM will follow that release with apps for Android and iPad in the second quarter.