Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am working with an eCommerce company
that has outgrown their hacked together backend for managing
inventory, pricing and feeds to various shopping engines (Yahoo,
3d cart, Amazon, etc.). They currently manage about 12,000 skus
and are doing $40M in revenue.  Their internal people are
working on a new Magento solution, but that is six months away
and they need to replace/improve their current solution in order
to hold them over. Their current solution was developed by two
people who have left the company.  What tools/architecture do
other eCommerce sites use to manage their inventory, pricing,
product descriptions and feed generation for the shopping
engines?  The current solution looks like this:    1. Inventory,
pricing and product descriptions are maintained in a database
and in NetSuite by employees    2. New products are added to the
database via import    3. Twice a week data is extracted into a
giant Excel spreadsheet    4. The Excel file adjusts pricing
based on some simple