Apptix, a provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange e-mail, Microsoft SharePoint collaboration services, and hosted VoIP phone services for small and medium businesses, has reported fourth consecutive quarter of EBITDA growth, as well as an increase in the number of customers and end-users in the second quarter of 2009.

 

Officials said that the company continued to experience new customer growth with an 11 percent year-over-year improvement while new customer end-user numbers rose 45 percent year-over-year.

 

According to company officials, these numbers illustrate that SMBs are recognizing that hosted services enable businesses to achieve operational efficiencies in support of business initiatives.

 

“Our growth numbers are in contrast to what most companies have experienced over the last several quarters, and may be viewed as a potential indicator that the recession might be bottoming out," said Dave Ehrhardt, CEO of Apptix (News - Alert), in a statement.

 

Ehrhardt said that the company’s continued customer growth demonstrates that small and mid-sized businesses are adopting hosted services as a smarter technology option, enabling them to achieve operational efficiencies and to focus limited IT staff and resources on revenue generating projects - rather than on maintaining expensive infrastructure.

 

Personal Communications Devices turned to Apptix when they were spun-off as an independent company from UTStarcom. The Hauppauge, NY-based designer and manufacturer of wireless communication devices, including handsets, PocketPCs, smartphones, messaging devices, and wireless broadband modems adopted Apptix's hosted services for e-mail and mobile messaging.

 

"By choosing Apptix for our business communication needs, we were able to quickly stand-up 171 employees on a business-class system," said Don Basile, Director of Information Technology for Personal Communications Devices.

 

Basile said that the hosted services approach enabled the company to eliminate the investment for an in-house solution and keep the ongoing IT costs low.

 

“The system has enabled the company to quickly scale as we've added employees over the last year," he added.

 

Back in July Apptix had announced that it offers hosted e-mail and ActiveSync services for the Palm Pre. 

 

This offering gives Pre users instant access to their e-mail, calendar, and task lists anywhere, anytime.