LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clearswift announces financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31st, 2009.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, Clearswift increased business by 21% year over year and more than 10% sequentially.

“Despite a difficult economic environment, by executing effectively we have been able to grow billings in Q4 ensuring double digit growth for the year,” said Richard Turner, chief executive. “Over the past nine months the company has been focussed on exceeding our customer’s expectations in order to drive growth. I am pleased with what we have been able to achieve in such a short space of time, we have created a new organisational structure, a new brand identity, a new channel partner program, improved the support we offer our customers and delivered growth.”

The Clearswift Catalyst Partner Program (http://partners.clearswift.com) launched in April is designed for the current climate and focuses on profitability and growth. This program has already attracted over 200 global partners in less than 30 days. Clearswift's customers are also experiencing improvements, with its customer support team now offering ‘follow the sun’ technical support as standard. The support knowledge base is constantly expanding to enable customers to quickly find answers for the most common questions and all calls are answered by Clearswift’s own in-house technical experts.

Clearswift is the first security company to embrace the Net Promoter Score favoured by leading consumer brands world-wide. The continuous brand monitoring by online feedback enables Clearswift to focus business efforts on delivering value to customers more efficiently and effectively.

Looking forward Clearswift expects fiscal year 2010 to continue to be a challenging environment to conduct business. However, by focussing on delivering solutions that facilitate business growth, through consolidation and virtualisation and mitigating risks Clearswift confidently expects to be able to continue to outperform the market.

About Clearswift

Clearswift content-aware, policy based solutions have enabled over 17,000 organizations to manage and maintain no-compromise data, e-mail and web security across all gateways and in all directions.

Clearswift customers use data and digital communications with confidence.