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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.
Sales catalogs can now be created and managed in the catalog asset store
You can now create, view, update, and delete sales catalogs directly in the catalog asset store when using the extended sites model.

Sales catalogs can now be created and managed in the catalog asset store

You can now create, view, update, and delete sales catalogs directly in the catalog asset store when using the extended sites model.

By adding this functionality to the catalog asset store you are now able to share sales catalogs between multiple storefronts. This added flexibility provides an efficient method the manage the sales catalog within the extended sites model.