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What's new
What's new includes information about new functionality and changes in existing functionality from WebSphere Commerce Version 6.0 to the latest WebSphere Commerce Version 7 feature pack.
New features and functionality
This section describes the new features and functionality available with WebSphere Commerce Version 7.
What's new for business users
Learn about the new features and functionality WebSphere Commerce Version 7 offers business users.
Management Center enhancements (business user tools)
The IBM Management Center for WebSphere Commerce, or Management Center, is the next generation business user tool for managing business tasks for online businesses. Using the Management Center, business users can perform tasks to create, update, and maintain merchandising and marketing assets in stores that use the Deprecated featureconsumer direct, B2B direct, Deprecated featuredemand chain, Deprecated featuresupply chain, and extended sites business models. Each business function can be managed using tools within the Management Center.
Catalogs
The Catalogs tool in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 includes enhancements to the creation and management of sales catalogs and supports additional search criteria in both the simple and advanced search.
Catalog Upload now available in the Management Center
Business users can now upload catalog data from a CSV file or compressed file into the Catalogs tool. After you upload the catalog data, you can use the Management Center tools to enrich it.

Catalog Upload now available in the Management Center

Business users can now upload catalog data from a CSV file or compressed file into the Catalogs tool. After you upload the catalog data, you can use the Management Center tools to enrich it.

Feature Pack 6 or later Business users can now upload catalog data from XML files or compressed files that contain XML files.

The Catalogs tool Catalog Upload function uses the Data Load utility that is introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7.