Amazon Marketplace Tech Landscape
Hundreds of software companies help businesses sell on Amazon with inventory management, product research, pricing, fulfillment, advertising, accounting, taxes, and more. The landscape map covers the SaaS players providing services to Amazon sellers. While Amazon’s own Seller Central acts as a starting place, sellers and brands typically use other tools to augment or replace Seller Central’s functionality.
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Data
Proprietary software parses raw data to extract critical pieces of structured data on brands, products, categories, and sellers.
Research
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