HCL Verse
HCL Verse is enterprise email and business messaging software for organizing work and collaborating across teams.
What HCL Verse is
HCL Verse is enterprise email and business messaging software for organizing work and collaborating across teams. Its inbox combines smart reminders with prioritization for people, information, and tasks. Users can search people, email, and folders by keyword or date, flag messages, and assign follow-up deadlines. Integrated chat, file sharing, profile management, and calendar views bring collaboration and schedules into the same workflow. Verse supports web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, with offline access. Mobile apps manage email, events, and to-do lists with notifications and mobile calendar integration. Messages can be digitally signed and encrypted, including automatic signing or encryption configurations. Organizations can deploy Verse through cloud, hybrid, or on-premises arrangements and add extensions for widgets, custom address selection, message validation, navigation links, or third-party repositories. Integrations include HCL Sametime, HCL Connections, and Box. Version 3.2.1 and later supports online meetings through GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, and Sametime. Pricing is available on request; no free-trial duration is listed.
Good
- Available across web and major desktop/mobile platforms
- Offline access supported
- Integrated chat, files, and calendars
- Digital signing and encryption
- Cloud, hybrid, and on-premises delivery
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request
- Mobile apps require an HCL Traveler server
- Downloads require an entitled registered account
- No free-trial duration listed
Who it suits
HCL Verse is for teams and organizations seeking enterprise email and collaboration across desktop and mobile devices. It also suits deployments requiring administrative mobile-security controls and flexible delivery options.
Verdict
HCL Verse combines enterprise email, collaboration, calendars, security controls, and multiple deployment models. Organizations should confirm pricing and the Traveler-server requirement for mobile use.
Plans and prices
From HCL Verse's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| HCL Verse | Priced on request | Pricing not listed; request a demo |
The facts
Each one read from HCL Verse's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- App coverage
- allchecked 24 Sep 2001
- Browser app
- Verse can run as a standalone browser app on Chrome for Windows, macOS, and Android, Edge 80 or later on Windows, and Safari on iOS.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Mobile apps
- HCL Verse provides iOS and Android apps for email, events, and to-do lists, with notifications and mobile calendar integration.checked 12 Oct 2001
What it does
- Audience
- HCL presents Verse as enterprise email for teams and organizations seeking email and collaboration across desktop and mobile devices.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Calendar
- Users can check their schedules and upcoming meetings from the inbox.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Calendar tools
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2001
- Collaboration
- The product page lists integrated chat and file sharing, profile management, and access from desktop or mobile devices.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Deployment
- HCL documents installing and configuring Verse on a Domino mail server; its product page describes cloud, hybrid, and on-premises delivery options through HCL cloud hosting partners.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Downloads
- HCL states that Verse portfolio downloads are available through the My HCLSoftware portal to registered users who belong to an entitled account.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Email security
- Users can digitally sign and encrypt messages, and can configure signing and encryption to happen automatically.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Email workflow
- Users can search people, email and folders by keywords and date, flag messages for action, and assign follow-up deadlines.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Extensions
- Organizations can deploy extensions to add widgets, custom address selection, message validation, navigation links, and third-party file repositories.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Integrations
- HCL documentation says Verse can integrate with HCL Sametime, HCL Connections, or Box.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Mobile
- HCL Verse provides iOS and Android apps for managing email, events and to-do lists, with notifications and mobile calendar integration.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Mobile security
- HCL Verse mobile supports administrator-controlled security settings that can include device or application passwords and restrictions on attachment downloads or exports.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2001
- Online meetings
- Verse 3.2.1 and later supports creating and managing meetings with GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, and Sametime.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Prioritization
- Verse uses smart reminders and helps users prioritize information, people, and tasks.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Purpose
- HCL Verse is enterprise email and business messaging designed to help users organize work and collaborate with teams.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Security
- HCL describes Verse as enterprise-grade secure email and says it provides secure communication.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Server requirement
- Using the HCL Verse mobile apps requires access to an HCL Traveler server that can access the user's mail file.checked 12 Oct 2001
- Support
- The product page links to HCL Help & Support, documentation, and community resources.checked 12 Oct 2001
Money
- Licensing and price
- The product page offers a demo request; the opened HCL pages did not state a Verse price or a free-trial duration.checked 12 Oct 2001
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