What is E-Business? Differentiate it with E-Commerce.

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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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