The provide of hosted Microsoft Exchange email, hosted VoIP phone service for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and Microsoft SharePoint collaboration services Apptix has announced the launch of voice access for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Apptix has enabled the new service which is hosted Exchange Server 2007 customers. The new service is remotely access and interact with their email, calender, contacts, or voicemails using any phone-land line or mobile via touchstone or voice commands.

Also with this latest announcement, Apptix customer can easily get access to their Outlook calenders via a mobile phone or landlines. By the help of this service they can use voice prompts to reschedule or alert other participants that a meeting is delayed or that its also scheduled time has changed. Apptix customer can also reply to emails by attaching a vocie mail message to a distribution list in their Outlook Contacts list.

Officials at Apptix said the power of advanced text-to-speech technology together with a hands free device, make it possible to solve many safety and legal concerns while continuing to provide on-the-go business professional with a solution for their needs.

"From email and attached documents to calendar and contact information, Outlook has become a central repository for employees' critical information," said Rick Rumbarger, Vice President of Product for Apptix.

"Apptix Outlook Voice Access keeps busy, on-the-go employees - whether in a car or walking across their company's campus - in touch with their customers, colleagues, and critical information."

Apptix offers a variety of hosted communications and IT services including Microsoft Exchange; VoIP; Microsoft SharePoint; Web conferencing and secure Instant Message via Microsoft Office Communications Server; Online Backup by EMC's Mozy; mobile messaging (including BlackBerry and iPhone ), compliance and archiving; and a Web presence solution that includes domain
registration, DNS hosting, and Website hosting.