IBM wants to help manage your e-mail with Verse

Well-versed: IBM Verse is available as an app on a variety of mobile devices running Android and iOS.

Big Blue is launching a new freemium cloud-based e-mail client called Verse which it hopes will revolutionise enterprise e-mail.

Pop quiz — when was the last time you saw an IBM-produced e-mail client? If you answered Lotus Notes, which IBM acquired many years ago and renamed IBM Notes, you are right.