Going for the Green

After nearly a year of experimenting with IBM WebSphere Commerce Express 5.6, an e-commerce Internet platform that Watts and its vendors found too limiting, Watts migrated to the IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise 6.0 platform and unveiled its reinvigorated site this past January.

“When we first came on board about a year and a half ago, the site was performing poorly,” says Rhett Daniel, senior director for USi, the Web developer that worked extensively on Watts’ site. “Watts had challenges in how its data was structured,” he says. “We helped stabilize its performance, turning off the Microsoft catalog hierarchy and making it more user-friendly and faster.”