eCommerce, eBusiness and eMarketing March 30, 2008
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Introduction
This is the first post of the administrator (the owner) of this Weblog. This blog is about eCommerce and its related topics such as eMarketing and eBusiness as a 1st priority topic, but, anyone who is interested in the Web in general can participate in the Blog. This Weblog is open for anyone who can invest his time to enrich the contents of this blog with anything that add a value to it. Now, here is a comprehensive background on eCommerc, eBusiness, and eMarketing.
eCommerce
eCommerce is the process of buying and selling products and services over electronic systems such as the Internet or any otehr computer network. The phenomenal growth of eCommerce in today’s business world since the spread of the Internet made it a multi-billion dollars business. A wide variety of business application systems were created to carry out conduct commerce using the Internet (eCommerce ) like electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems, all of this & more are now avaialbe thru the Net.
eBusiness
Electronic business (eBusiness) is very similar to eCommerce. But, in practice eBusiness is much more than just eCommerce, eBusiness involves the strategic use of electronic capabilities to perform business processes & functions via a computer network. In this we can say that eCommerce could be thought of as a subset of much more startegic overall strategy which is the eBusiness strategy.
Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers.
eBusiness
Electronic marketing (eMarketing) is very similar to eCommerce. But, in practice eBusiness is much more than just eCommerce, eBusiness involves the strategic use of electronic capabilities to perform business processes & functions via a computer network. In this we can say that eCommerce could be thought of as a subset of much more startegic overall strategy which is the eBusiness strategy.
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