E-commerce edited by: manav sahu & Dr. Jitendra kumar sahu ( pmec & Research Scholar: Berhampur University & Professor,hod mech. Dept, smit chandipadar ) Introduction

 
Comparison Chart 
Basis for Comparison 
E-commerce 
E-business 
Meaning 
Trading of merchandise, over the internet 
is known as E-commerce. 
Running business using the internet 
is known as E-business. 
What is it? 
Subset 
Superset 
Is it limited to monetary 
transactions? 
Yes 
No 
What they carry out? 
Commercial transactions 
Business transactions 
Approach 
Extroverted 
Ambiverted 
Requires 
Website 
Website, CRM, ERP, etc. 
Which network is used? 
Internet 
Internet, Intranet and Extranet. 
Key Differences Between e-commerce and e-business 
The following are the major differences between e-commerce and e-business: 
1.
Buying and Selling of goods and services through the internet is known as e-commerce. Unlike e-
business, which is an electronic presence of business, by which all the business activities are conducted 
through the internet. 
2.
e-commerce is a major component of e-business. 
3.
e-commerce includes transactions which are related to money, but e-business includes monetary as well 
as allied activities. 
4.
e-commerce has an extroverted approach that covers customers, suppliers, distributors, etc. On the other 
hand, e-business has an ambivert approach that covers internal as well as external processes. 
5.
e-commerce requires a website that can represent the business. Conversely, e-business requires a 
website, Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning for running the 
business over the internet. 

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6.
e-commerce uses the internet to connect with the rest of the world. In contrast to e-business, the 
internet, intranet and extranet are used for connecting with the parties . 
7.
E-business is broader in scope and e-commerce is just an aspect or a subset of it. 
8.
E-commerce only covers business transactions such as buying and selling of goods and services
over 
the internet. 
9.
E-commerce essentially involves monetary trade while in e-business, money transactions are not 
necessary. 
10.
E-business involves marketing, product design, consumer service evaluation, and more. 
Conclusion 
e-commerce is the major part of e-business. It can also be said that e-commerce is e-business websites, but 
e-business is not necessarily e-commerce. The former is just the online presence of the conventional 
commerce and the same is the case with the latter. 
At present most of the companies are doing e-business just to capture the maximum part of the market. 
Some e-commerce websites have emerged since last few years who are vanishing the market traditional 
commercial business, like Flipkart, Amazon, eBay, etc.