l Electronic commerce – business that is conducted over the Internet using any of the applications that rely on the Internet, such as:
- e-mail, instant messaging, shopping carts, Web services.
- Ex: businesses trading with other businesses and internal processes that companies use to support their buying, selling, hiring, planning, etc
Electronic Business and/or e-Business terms are spoken in broader sense. Ex: “the transformation of key business processes through the use of Internet Technologies” (IBM).
terms like Electronic Commerce and/or Electronic Business are used interchangeably.