Background:
Weightwatchers.com, the leading global weight loss brand, has helped millions of people around the world with their efforts to lose weight. With so many of their customers in non-English speaking locales, and a distributed web presence covering 29 countries, Weightwatchers.com undertook the effort to extend the online customer experience into nine of those countries with localized Web sites. WeightWatchers.com selected Prospero Technologies for the community platform and ABLE Innovations for localization services to create the international Web sites.

Client Objective:
To enhance communication with non-English speaking people interested in weight loss and weight management, Weightwatchers.com embarked on a multi-phased approach to creating a multilingual online community experience. The goal: They wanted visitors to these sites to experience a Weight Watchers branded online community in their native languages, including customized registered user sign-up processes, message boards, polls and profiles. The countries that they wanted to target were the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Finland.

Challenge:
Weightwatchers.com sought a solution that could provide a cost effective and efficient way to deal with the complexity of online community management in multiple languages within the framework of their distributed Web site model. They knew that the multilingual aspect would increase the difficulty of developing and maintaining these interactive sites, yet were determined to find a solution that would ensure an effective method of maintaining registrations, message boards and other features that the sites would offer.

Solution:
WeightWatchers.com selected Prospero Technologies LLC, a leading provider of Web-based collaboration services and ABLE Innovations, a leading provider of language technology and integrated globalization services, to create the multilingual Web sites in U.K. English, Flemish, French, German, Swedish and Finnish.

The Prospero community platform in conjunction with ABLE Innovations solution suite enabled WeightWatchers.com to achieve its objective to enhance its global brand. Further, time and money were saved by streamlining administration of its international Web sites, reducing maintenance complexity, centrally managing international registered user sign-up/login processes, and creating, launching and managing feature-rich message boards.

"What Prospero and ABLE Innovations offer is unique: A unified platform with language services built-in for managing multiple, international Web sites," said Mike Basone, chief technology officer, WeightWatchers.com. "This not only helps us to reduce operating expenses and streamline administration, but allows us to offer a unique, personalized and localized user experience, which ensures that our customers have all the resources that they need to achieve their weight-loss objectives."

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About ABLE Innovations, LLC.

ABLE Innovations, LLC. leads the way in language technology and integrated globalization services, providing support for clients' worldwide translation and internationalization needs. ABLE Innovations' process management expertise and veteran localization staff dramatically reduce the complexity and costs of producing multilingual applications, Web sites and content. By offering rapidly deployable and innovative solutions, ABLE Innovations ensures qualitatively better results for clients in Technology, Life Science, and Energy Industries. Commitment to clients is further supported through The ABLE Guarantee™: Cost Savings, Quality, and On-Time Delivery. ABLE Innovations can be found at http://www.ableinnovations.com or contact info@ableinnovations.com.

About Prospero Technologies

Prospero Technologies Corporation is a well-established solutions provider, specializing in Web-based customer interactivity and collaboration technology. Prospero's enterprise-class solutions include a full suite of interactive services integrated with customer registration, member directories, customer profiling, activity tracking, management controls and reporting. Prospero's community infrastructure services are currently being provided to approximately 60 customers including Amazon.com, About.com, The Washington Post, Fox Entertainment, BusinessWeek, US News and World Report, Major League Baseball's MLB.com, Hot Jobs, Wharton Business School and Ziff-Davis Media. Prospero can be found on the Web at http://www.prospero.com

About WeightWatchers.com, Inc.

WeightWatchers.com, Inc., the online experience for the leading global weight loss brand, offers weight loss help for Meetings members and self-help dieters alike. The WeightWatchers.com mission is to expand, online, Weight Watchers 40 years of healthy weight loss success. Headquartered in New York City and founded in 1999, WeightWatchers.com, Inc. is an affiliate and licensee of Weight Watchers International, Inc. (NYSE: WTW), and runs the Weight Watchers Website located at http://www.WeightWatchers.com. WeightWatchers.com won the Cyber Lion award for best community at the 2001 Cannes Advertising Festival.