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What is Electronic Commerce?

• Allows businesses to do something it can't do in the physical world;
• Opens up back-end systems to new constituents;
• Makes the Internet a business-critical delivery vehicle;
• Aggregates information, creating a new revenue-generating service;
• Chains business transactions to one another;
• Includes adaptive navigation, allowing users to switch midstream between parametric or concept-centric searching;
• Uses some form of intelligence, such as agents;
• Organizes buyers and sellers; uses registry services or "match-making";
• Makes interface personalized, dynamic, user-friendly, and engaging;

• Can be cost-justified.

E-Commerce can be divided into 4 classifications:

1. Business to Business (B2B)

2. Business to Consumer (B2C)

3. Business to Government Administration

4. Consumer to Government Administration

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