Collaboration and Integration

Business to Business (B2B) is a professional organization of no-competing business owners, sales persons and professionals that meet weekly to exchange qualified business referrals and participate in cost-effective co-op advertising. B2B Transactions is much higher than the volume of B2C transactions. B2B is also used in the context of communication and collaboration. The term was originally coined to describe the electronic communications between businesses or enterprises in order to distinguish it from the communications between businesses and consumers "business-to-consumer". It eventually came to be used in marketing as well, initially describing only industrial or capital goods marketing. Today it is widely used to describe all products and services used by enterprises. Many professional institutions and the trade publications focus much more on B2C than B2B, although most sales and marketing personnel are in the B2B sector.

Business to Employee (B2E) uses an intrabusiness network which allows companies to provide products and/or services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate processes. The B2E portal is designed to include not only everything that an employee might hope to find on an intranet (such as a corporate directory, or customer support information), but also any personal information and links that the employee might want (such as stocks information, or even games). The intention is to increase not only efficiency, but also employee satisfaction and a sense of community within the organization.

Business to Consumer (B2C) a transaction that occurs between a company and a consumer, as opposed to a transaction between companies (called B2B). The term may also describe a company that provides goods or services for consumers.

Business to Government (B2G) is a derivative of B2B Marketing and often referred to as a market definition of "public sector marketing" which encompasses marketing products and services to various government levels - including federal, state and local - through integrated marketing communications techniques such as strategic public relations, branding, marcom, advertising, and web-based communications. B2G networks provide a platform for businesses to bid on government opportunities which are presented as solicitations in the form of RFPs in a reverse auction fashion. Public sector organizations (PSOs) post tenders in the form of RFPs, RFIs, RFQs,  Sources Sought, etc. and suppliers respond to them.

E-Commerce Hosting Issues :

Ecommerce is well beyond that and you have to ponder various issues that may emerge, specifically in the ecommerce environment. In the following section we have highlighted remedies to deal with few of the business issues in ecommerce.

Security & Privacy:
Ecommerce fraud is on a rise and visitors are very skeptical about revealing their financial details online.

Processing Capabilities:
The speed and accuracy of various processes that go in managing an ecommerce store are also very important.

Order Fulfillment:
the major task is to deliver the orders placed on your online store within defined timeframe and above all, as shown on your ecommerce storefront. And Allow users to track their orders online.

Successful order fulfillment is one of the necessities for any ecommerce store and should be given special attention. There are many other issues like legal laws, state economic barriers and governmental provisions that also needs to be accepted. Since Ecommerce is not limited to geographical boundaries, you should always be cautious that you do not over-step any legal and economic restrictions.

Posted By: Sarah Jean Icoy