<p>At the IBM Connect 2014 conference today, IBM announced not only an update of its email offering that embeds analytics to help make users more productive, but also that it is bringing all of its collaboration software and services together under one IBM Connect brand.</p><p>A new version of IBM Web Mail, available on premise or as a cloud service, will make it possible to identify emails relating to specific events or processes that should be prioritized versus other conversation threads that users can mute to deal with at another time.</p><p>In addition, IBM also announced its intention to deliver a high-definition video service later this year via the cloud that will be based on IBM Sametime 9 communications software.</p><p>Finally, IBM also announced that it is making a version of its Domino collaboration software available as a platform as a service (PaaS) offering running on the IBM SoftLayer cloud. This and other social business cloud services that IBM is building out are part of a $1.2 billion investment in cloud services that IBM revealed earlier this month.</p><p><a href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/it-unmasked/ibm-applies-analytics-to-email-as-part-of-ibm-connect-push.html">Keep reading...</a></p>