Corporate Report: June 1

Catapult Systems helps PGT create new online ordering system
North Venice-based PGT Industries hired Catapult Systems, an Austin, Texas-based Microsoft IT consulting firm, to roll out a new online order system for the window/door maker. The new order system, called Exoquote, uses the Web-based Microsoft Silverlight platform.

The goal of the new system was to allow PGT customers to place highly customized orders quickly. Exoquote makes that possible through a website without requiring customers to install an application, allowing it to support a wide variety of customer hardware and software.

“In our industry, customers have a low tolerance for slow performing ordering systems,” Terry Mitchell, IT director for PGT, says in a press release. “The goal of the new Exoquote solution was to give customers the performance they expect without compromising any of the advanced ordering features they needed.”