Electronic Business

Why Trust Techopedia

What Does Electronic Business Mean?

Electronic business (e-business) refers to the use of the Web, Internet, intranets, extranets or some combination thereof to conduct business. E-business is similar to e-commerce, but it goes beyond the simple buying and selling of products and services online. E-business includes a much wider range of businesses processes, such as supply chain management, electronic order processing and customer relationship management. E-business processes, therefore, can help companies to operate more effectively and efficiently.

Advertisements

Techopedia Explains Electronic Business

Electronic business is a broader term that encompasses other common terms such as e-commerce and e-tailing. As more of companies' sales, marketing and other internal business processes are conducted digitally, electronic business processes such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and content management are becoming increasingly important. This shift has also been facilitated by improved security measures for online transactions.

Advertisements

Related Terms

Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist
Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist

Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.