Terapeak intros e-commerce tool for Yahoo! Japan

VICTORIA, USA: Terapeak, provider of e-commerce market research has launched a e-commerce research tool for Japan’s largest online marketplace.

Leveraging rich analytics capabilities honed over the past decade via their flagship product Terapeak for eBay, Terapeak has released a new research tool for Yahoo! JAPAN Auctions, said a press release.

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool broadens Terapeak’s available transactional dataset, and extends Terapeak’s reach to hundreds of thousands of sellers who list on the Yahoo! JAPAN online marketplace.

In July 2011, Terapeak first announced a strategic alliance with Yahoo! JAPAN — the largest e-commerce marketplace and search engine in Japan.

"This new application marks the evolution of Terapeak as a world-class e-commerce applications provider, and demonstrates the company’s ability to onboard very large data sets in a short period of time," added the release.

“Terapeak for Yahoo! JAPAN will provide unparalleled marketplace research and e-commerce data analytics capabilities to e-commerce merchants,” said Colin How, president of Terapeak.

"With over $200 billion dollars’ worth of transaction data Terapeak continues to provide the competitive advantage to merchants worldwide," added How.

“Yahoo! JAPAN is happy to announce the launch of Terapeak for Yahoo! JAPAN,” added Manubu Miyasaka, executive officer and chief senior director of Consumer Business at Yahoo! JAPAN. “This feature-rich market analysis tool is the result of our strategic alliance with Terapeak, which was formed in July 2011, and will help Yahoo! Auction sellers improve their auction management, analysis, and sales.”