E-Business :- Electronic Business, shortly known as e-business, is the online presence of business. It can also be defined as the business which is done with the help of internet or electronic data interchange i.e. is known as E-business. E-commerce is one of the important components of e-business, but it is not an essential part.
There are two types of e-business, which are:
Pure-Play: The business which is having an electronic existence only. Example: Hotels.com
Brick and Click: The business model, in which the business exists both in online i.e. electronic and offline i.e. physical mode.
| E-Commerce |
E-Business |
| Trading of merchandise, over the internet is known as E-commerce. |
Running business using the internet is known as E-business. |
| Carrying out commercial transactions online |
Conducts all kinds of business activities and services over the internet |
| Buying/ selling, monetary transactions online |
Online presence of the business |
| A sub-set of E-Business, it is also a narrow concept |
A super-set of E-Commerce. Business transactions are supported in E-Business |
| Transactions are limited |
Transactions are not limited |
| Involves use of only one website |
Multiple websites and CRMs, ERPs that connect different business processes are used |
| E-commerce is narrower concept and restricted to buying and selling. |
It is a broader concept that involves market surveying, supply chain and logistics management and using data mining. |
| Mandatory use of internet |
Internet, Intranet or Extranet are used |
| It is more appropriate in B2C context. |
It is used in the context of B2B transactions. |
| Also cover external or outward business processes |
Covers internal as well as external business activities or processes |
| Example: Buying of pen drive from Amazon.com, alibaba.com is considered ecommerce |
Example: Using of internet by dell, Amazon for maintaining business processes like. Online customer support, email marketing supply chain management. |
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