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What is the difference between E Business & E Commerce?

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Question added by Vaiyapuri Gopalakrishnan , Manager - After Sales , M/s Saud Bahwan Automotive llc
Date Posted: 2016/06/04
Farhana Siddique Fari
by Farhana Siddique Fari , Coordinator , Coordinator at DFA, Dr Fazeela Abbasi, Advanced Skin, Laser & Hair Institute, Islamabad.

Difference between E-Business and  E-Commerce

 

E-Commerce involves commercial transactions done over internet.

E-Business is conduct of business processes on the internet.

 

E-Commerce is subset of E-Business.

E-Business is superset of E-Commerce.

 

E-Commerce is use of electronic transmission medium that caters for buying and selling of products and services.

E-Business also includes the exchange of information directly related to buying and selling of products.

 

Those activities which essentially involve monetary transactions are termed as “e-commerce”.

E-Business includes activities like procurement of raw materials or goods, customer education, looking for suppliers, etc.

 

E-Commerce usually requires the use of just a Website.

E-Business involves the use of CRM’s, ERP’s that connect different business processes.

 

E-Commerce covers outward facing processes that touch customers,suppliers and external partners.

E-Business covers internal processes such as production, inventory management, product development, risk management, finance etc.

 

E-Commerce just involves Buying and selling of products and services.

E-Business includes all kinds of pre-sale and post-sale efforts.

 

E-Commerce is a narrower concept and restricted to buying and selling.

E-Business is a broader concept that involves market surveying, supply chain and logistic management and using Data-mining.

 

E-Commerce is more appropriate in B2C context.

E-Business is used in the context of B2B transactions.

 

E-Commerce involves the mandatory use of internet.

E-Business can involve the use of internet, intranet or extranet.

 

Example- Buying of pen-drive from Amazon.com is considered E-Commerce.

Example- Using of Internet by Dell, Amazon for maintaining business processes like Online customer support, email marketing, supply chain management are a form of E-Business.

 

 

Randy Jumaquio
by Randy Jumaquio , HR Executive │ Content Creator │ Coach , Self-Employed (Freelancer)

Both are done "electronically" or in the internet. Your e-commerce covers all external transactions such as your delivery, purchasing from vendors, marketing, etc.

While your e-business covering both your internal transactions such as inventory, hr, production, etc. and e-commerce.

Mohammed  Ashraf
by Mohammed Ashraf , Director of International Business , Saqr Al-Khayala Group

There are several wonderful answers herein already from great professionals, nothing to add

Krushaal Mahendra
by Krushaal Mahendra , Boutique Sales Executive , Lifestyle Fine Jewelry

Ecommerce is the strategy a company uses to satisfy customers, stakeholders and suppliers such as marketing, sales, advertising, public relations etc.

Ebusiness is another term for Ecommerce but also includes management activities like in product development, brand management, inventory contol etc. 

Naman Aggarwal
by Naman Aggarwal , Sales Associate , Amazon.in

E Business means doing online business like selling your products through online websites.

and E Commerce is an entire Cloudtail which provides opportunities like E Business

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khalil CHAKROUN
by khalil CHAKROUN , stagiaire , centre de biotechnologie de Sfax

E business is the managerial use of information technology, but the E commerce is the online business

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