E-Business and E-Commerce: A Comprehensive Analysis

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
What is your opinion of e-business and e-commerce and their roles in today’s world of business? Analyse
a case study to support your ideas...............................................................................................................4
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................8
References...................................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
In this individual assignment, it describes the concept of e-business and e-commerce and their
roles in the current time period. When analysing the case study it gives various types of ideas,
information and knowledge. E-commerce is the systematic digital activity of buying and sells the
products via online mode and through the internet. On the other hand, e-business is commercial
transitions which include sharing the information via the internet. Electronic commerce concept
focuses on the use of ICT for enables the external practices and connection of business with the
individuals and groups. In this report, it explains all the aspects of e-commerce and e-business. It
explains the role and position of both the concepts and also describes the advantages and
disadvantages of both aspects. E-business and e-commerce play an important role in the current
time period. It provides various types of benefits not only for the customers but also for the
business.
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What is your opinion of e-business and e-commerce and their roles in today’s
world of business? Analyse a case study to support your ideas.
E-commerce and e-business and their roles in the current world of business
E-business is the online business whereas products and services are buying and selling via online
mode. In the current time period, electronic business uses the World Wide Web for transactions
life cycle and uses the technologies which include; e-mail, e-commerce transactions. There are
various types of e-commerce transactions which sell the products such as; books, accessories. E-
business and e-commerce have three areas such as; online retailing, electronic markets and
online auctions. It is supported by electronic business. It plays an essential role in the current
time period (Laudon and Traver., 2016).
Role of e-commerce in the today world:
It is investigated that in the 1970s e-commerce facilitate of commercial transactions
electronically via technology such as; electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic funds transfer
(EFT), it permits to the business for sending the commercial documents such as; purchase orders
as well as invoices electronically. In the current time period many European, American and
Australian business companies offer services via the World Wide Web (Martin and Eva., 2015).
E-commerce is divided into two categories such as; business to consumer (B2C) and business to
business (B2B).
Examples of B2C are: amazon, e-bay, snap deal, flip kart and many popular markets trends
online services. It provides various types of benefits to the organizations as well as customers
(Kim and Peterson., 2017).
Benefits to the organizations:
 It helps for global reach
 Cost reduction
 Customization
 Extend the hours such as; 24/7/365.
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 It improves customer relations
Benefits to the customers:
 It provides instant delivery
 Provide more products and services to the customers
 Sell cheaper products and services
 Provide information availability
 Show presence and participation in auctions (Gregory, et. al., 2017).
There are many business applications which support the electronic business such as; email, the
instant the messaging, online shopping and track the orders. It provides an online banking
facility. Shopping cart software’s, teleconferencing; electronic tickets are business applications.
It is an analysis that online shopping provides benefits to the users, potential customers, and
influenced the new customers to purchase the products via the online portal. It is the systematic
process of buying the goods, services from merchants who sell their products through the
internet.
Online customers can purchase the products and services with less time, it provides many
products according to the customer's age, groups, choices, needs and wants (Adiwijaya, et. al.,
2016).
There are various types of advantages of online shopping such as;
24 hours access, it provides the ability to compare the shops, there are various types of varieties
given and present to the customers, and it provides in-home privacy to the customers. It is an
analysis that in the current time period there are various types of websites for shopping. It
includes; event tickets, travel booking, consumer electronics, online periodicals subscriptions.
The relationship between e-commerce and e-business:
 In e-business, it includes buying and sells electronic items, electronic procurements.
 In e-commerce, it includes sell-side e-commerce and buys side e-commerce.
 It refers that buy-side to electronic transactions between purchasing organization and
their suppliers.
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 Sell-side refers to electronic transactions between supplier’s organization and its
customers.
It is an analysis that in the UK there are around 60% of adults is actively using the internet.
There is seven out of ten towards the internet is essential and important for lives. It is
investigated that there are 2200 people surveyed by oxford internet institutes in 2005 and it refers
that there is 66% populations of UK buy online products and services and 45% people use the
internet for bank online transactions. Key business capabilities of e-marketplace systems
describe that it reduces the cost of business provide data integrity and accessibility, it utilizes the
open standards, and it provides interoperability (Kollmann and Hensellek., 2016).
Advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce:
Advantages Disadvantages
 It is available for 24 hours in a day.
 Users can shop every product according
to their needs and wants.
 It is faster than browsing around the
street.
 It helps in searching the deals.
 Customers have the freedom to
purchase the items of stores according
to their suitable time (Falk and
Hagsten., 2015).
 Products are shipped to customers the
chances of delay is an important issue
in it.
 Risk of fraud is arising.
 There is no possibility of checking the
products before purchasing.
 Risks of payment issue are also not
certain.
All these advantages and disadvantages show both the aspects which are positive and negative.
E-marketplaces:
These components are electronic exchanges whereas firms register as buyers and sellers and use
various types of activities by using of internet. There are various types of e-marketplaces in the
current time period such as; public exchanges, consortium exchanges and private exchanges.
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E-business E-commerce

These e-marketplaces provide various types of advantages such as; provide greater scopes to
trading partnerships, provide opportunities for lower costs, chances present by assessing towards
value-adding services. It gives chances to access global markets for small and medium-sized
enterprises.
It is analysis that in the current time period customers are able to enjoy the variety of goods and
services at competitive prices. In these circumstances, e-commerce influenced customers
purchasing decisions. In current time customers go for digital trend via online mode to check the
reviews of the products, prices, availability of the goods. It saves their time and having online
purchases drive more business.
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Conclusion
It is concluded that this report explains the concept of e-business and e-commerce in the current
time period. It is investigated that today, customers use digital technologies, using the internet
for online shopping, bank transactions, reading blogs, journals and articles. E-commerce plays an
essential role in today’s world. Customers have no time to stay in the lines; waste their time for
choosing the products. So these services provide benefits to the users to utilize these facilities
and services provide benefits to the customers who serve their time on the internet. In this report,
it provides both the aspects of e-commerce concept so the learners will understand the depth
information of it.
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References
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 Kim, Y. and Peterson, R.A., 2017. A Meta-analysis of Online Trust Relationships in E-
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 Martin Falk and Eva Hagsten., 2015. E-Commerce Trends and Impacts Across Europe,
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 Gregory, G.D., Ngo, L.V. and Karavdic, M., 2017. Developing e-commerce marketing
capabilities and efficiencies for enhanced performance in business-to-business export
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 Adiwijaya, M., Kaihatu, T.S., Nugroho, A. and Kartika, E.W., 2016. The Descriptive
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