Difference between e-business and e-commerce

[Bschool]

What is the difference between e-business and e-commerce?

[ritika]

Hello Friends...........

1. E-Commerce is the subset of E-Business. If you remember the Venn diagram you studied in school then you can very well understand what I am trying to convey. The later one is a very broad concept while the former one is just a small part of it. This relationship will be cleared in the subsequent points.

2. Those activities which essentially involve monetary transactions are termed as "e-commerce". However, e-business is a much broader term. There are many other things besides selling including but not limited to marketing, procurement of raw materials or goods, customer education, looking for suppliers etc.

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[PGDM]

Electronic commerce or "eCommerce" covers the range of on-line business activities for products and services, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer, through the Internet. eCommerce breaks into two components:
Online Shopping
Online Purchasing

eBusiness is a super-set of eCommerce. One component of transitioning your company from a traditional business to an eBusiness is when you incorporate eCommerce into your company's flow. For example, when your sales and fulfillment organizations can handle web-based purchases equivalently to telephone and mail purchases, you have started the transition to eBusiness.

[softwaretraining]

eBusiness is a super-set of eCommerce. One component of transitioning your company from a traditional business to an eBusiness is when you incorporate eCommerce into your company's flow. For example, when your sales and fulfillment organizations can handle web-based purchases equivalently to telephone and mail purchases, you have started the transition to eBusiness.