Excite@Home signed an agreement
with B2B e-commerce information services company OneChannel.net to provide Excite@Home’s
e-commerce merchants with value-added sales metrics and transaction analysis.
Excite@Home (ATHM) said its E-Business Services customers will have 24/7 access to
OneChannel.net’s real-time e-commerce services, which are designed to help
merchants make marketing and merchandising decisions, assess up-to-date
market share and measure competitive performance.
Financial arrangements between the companies were not disclosed.
OneChannel.net gathers individual merchant transaction data (down to the SKU
level)
and aggregates it with sales information collected from other merchants. The
data is then syndicated and made available to merchants, which they can use
it to generate reports on product, pricing and sales analysis and comparisons
to industry benchmarks.
“Merchants can view personalized transaction and market reports from
OneChannel.net in real-time, allowing them to react to rapidly changing
market conditions, plan accordingly and make the changes necessary to stay
ahead of their competition,” said Dan Odette, vice president, marketing,
E-Business Services, Excite@Home.
E-Business Services, part of @Work, Excite@Home’s business-to-business
division, is a provider of e-commerce solutions for small to medium size
businesses offering an integrated e-commerce solution that includes a wizard
driven, template-based store builder, shopping cart and cash register, an
Internet ready merchant account, payment gateway, and Web traffic leveraging
Excite.com, ExciteShopping and Excite
Stores.