StrikeIron and DataUnison Partner to Deliver eBay Market Research Data
Users can import eBay Market Research data directly into
Excel workbooks
Research Triangle Park, NC – June 27, 2006 – StrikeIron Inc., provider of the
Web Services Marketplace, today announced that they have partnered with
DataUnison to bring eBay Market research data to the desktop, within
applications, mobile devices, or anywhere else a Web service can be consumed by
adding it to the Web Services Marketplace. The DataUnison eBay Research Web
Service returns both aggregated and detailed analysis on items being sold on
eBay for the last 90 days of sales. Users can evaluate the historical pricing
and performance of any item on eBay as well as look at Seller-specific
competitive research. It gives eBay sellers the ability to filter results by
their own, and other eBay seller IDs to gain understanding into the competitive
landscape of the market. As part of StrikeIron’s Marketplace, the service is
priced on a pay-as-you go model and allows subscribers to take advantage of all
of the services and tools in the Marketplace.
“eBay has over 190 million registered users and has billions of dollars of
transactions each year,” said David Frey, Marketing and Business Development at
DataUnison. “With 6 million new items added daily, the research provided in the
DataUnison eBay Research Web Service provides the online marketing data sellers
are looking for and gives them a competitive advantage. This amazingly flexible
technology allows you to quickly and easily integrate buying and selling trends
into any Web or desktop application.”
The DataUnison Research Web Service is a simple way to integrate eBay
Research into any application. Users can view and analyze top products, average
start prices, average sold prices and much more. The Web Service allows you to
access eBay’s 33 main categories of listings as well as all of their
sub-categories. In addition, StrikeIron has created a series of Workbook
templates freely available that can be invoked inside of Excel using the
StrikeIron OnDemand for Excel add-in and can be the starting point for
sophisticated seller analysis. The workbook templates allow users to build
rich-client spreadsheets that incorporate data feeds from DataUnison and other
live data sources with no programming required, enabling composite applications
to be built within Excel in minutes.
"Web services are continuing to pave the software landscape for users to gain
access to any kind of data”, said Bob Brauer, President and CEO of StrikeIron.
"Solutions like DataUnison’s eBay Research Web Service are an ideal way for
power sellers to cost-effectively leverage the vast amount of data from eBay and
improve their selling process. This is a key offering for sellers to gather
critical intelligence on buying and selling trends in the eBay marketplace."
About DataUnison
Since 2005, DataUnison has provided eBay developers, power sellers, and
multiple Fortune 500 companies with raw data licenses and value add services
such as value guides, brand reports, product reports, keyword affiliate reports,
and trade-in programs. DataUnison is proud to launch its new API based on
historical eBay market data. For more information, www.dataunison.com.
About StrikeIron
StrikeIron is the leader in providing innovative solutions for delivering data
over the emerging Internet. The company’s innovative Web Services Marketplace
provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent
interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources.
This allows business users, application developers and enterprise IT
professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional
external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications.
Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business
functions from organizations such as Cortera, D&B, Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader,
Tax Data Systems, The Sports Network, and Zacks.
StrikeIron also offers IronCloud™, the only comprehensive Web services delivery
platform that opens up new channels for data distribution and consumption
through Web Services. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost and
complexity of managing the challenges of data distribution which include
leveraging an existing external hardware and software architecture, controlling
and metering access and usage, external monitoring for 24x7 reliability, full
usage analytics, as well as multiple authentication scenarios and instead
concentrate their focus on making information easier for partners, customers,
and distributed business units to access and use. StrikeIron delivers value to
over 1,500 customers and partners such as Avaya, BEA, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda
Europe, D&B, Siemens, Nike, Swarovski, ShoeBuy, and Exclusive Resorts. For
more information, visit www.strikeiron.com.
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David Frey
DataUnison
(250) 483-3275
dfrey@terapeak.com