Applico outlines the most developed B2B vertical in eProcurement, its top SaaS providers and how distributors can take advantage.
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Applico's Alex Moazed examines Europe's largest B2B marketplaces and how the market for them compares with those in the U.S.
Applico's Alex Moazed shares takeaways from its report that examines new findings on Amazon Business and eProcurement.
Along with the list, Applico’s new report found that B2B marketplaces raised $2.2 billion in 2021 investment and $1.7 billion in the first nine months of 2022.
Alex Moazed, Applico CEO, recently interviewed the leadership team at Faire, which took the top spot among B2B marketplaces.
Digital platform consultancy ranks its top 50 B2B marketplaces, focusing exclusively on independent B2B product marketplaces that facilitate the exchange of goods between a business customer and a third party distributor and/or supplier.
As platform strategy 101 tells us: the technology is a commodity. The power is in the network. As a result, Applico is seeing two types of marketplace technology providers: SaaS (software as a service) and, more recently, MaaS (marketplace as a service).
The B2B market is looking for better e-commerce tools and a wider product assortment. Applico’s Alex Moazed outlines three avenues for distributors to meet customer needs and achieve channel enablement in the process.
Amazon Business is thriving but its also vulnerable.
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Alex Moazed was a speaker at MDMs recent forum on Amazon Business. This article is excerpted from the book Modern Monopolies: What it Takes to Dominate the 21st-Century Economy, which he co-wrote with Nick Johnson. Alex has long championed the idea that the largest B2B distributors from non-competing verticals should band together to build an industry-run marketplace that is a direct competitor to Amazon Business.
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