E-Commerce:
Commerce basically refers to something which involves buying and selling process. Now if the same thing is done electronically that is called eCommerce (Electronic commerce). There are various products available in modern world to implement eCommerce for any organization. There are multiple factors which makes different organizations to choose different platform as eCommerce solution for their organization. For example, size of the organization, complexity of the business process and budget, support for existing legacy systems, available IT support, infrastructure …etc.
What are the types of eCommerce:
eCommerce business can be broadly classified as
1.B2C (Business to Customer)
2.B2B (Business to Business)
3.C2C (Customer to Customer)
1. Business to Customer (B2C):
This is the most popular and commonly known ecommerce business process. In this business (Seller) is selling goods to its customer(Buyer). I think with example it can be understood easily. (Seller) Flipkart and You (Buyer) or (Seller) Amazon to You (Buyer).
2. Business to Business (B2B):
In this ecommerce business process recurring transactions will happen and different way payment methods, approval process are involved. For example (Seller) Dealer and Seller (Buyer) or (Seller) Big Merchant and Small Merchant (Buyer).
3. Commerce to Commerce (C2C):
Another kind of ecommerce business process in which customer is selling goods to another customer. A simple example is
(Seller) Individual in Quikr and Another individual (Buyer) Considering few very famous development platforms like .Net or Java many ecommerce platforms are developed and made available in the market place. Oracle ATG ecommerce is one among them. Each individual ecommerce solution has their own features and support for the different business process. As I have mentioned earlier, it completely depends on the factors which will help business team to decide on what ecommerce solution would be suitable for for implementation.
Basically, most of the ecommerce platform supports features like Customer management, Product Catalog management, Search features, Product pricing, Promotions, coupons, Cart management, Inventory, Checkout, Order fulfilment, Messaging systems, Customer support, Returns and Rewards, Content management...etc.
A brief history of Oracle ATG ecommerce:
ATG (Advance Technology Group) has developed eCommerce solution popularly called as ATG eCommerce. Later its acquired by Oracle and Now it’s called as Oracle ATG eCommerce. In future It may be named as Oracle Commerce as well.
Commerce basically refers to something which involves buying and selling process. Now if the same thing is done electronically that is called eCommerce (Electronic commerce). There are various products available in modern world to implement eCommerce for any organization. There are multiple factors which makes different organizations to choose different platform as eCommerce solution for their organization. For example, size of the organization, complexity of the business process and budget, support for existing legacy systems, available IT support, infrastructure …etc.
What are the types of eCommerce:
eCommerce business can be broadly classified as
1.B2C (Business to Customer)
2.B2B (Business to Business)
3.C2C (Customer to Customer)
1. Business to Customer (B2C):
This is the most popular and commonly known ecommerce business process. In this business (Seller) is selling goods to its customer(Buyer). I think with example it can be understood easily. (Seller) Flipkart and You (Buyer) or (Seller) Amazon to You (Buyer).
2. Business to Business (B2B):
In this ecommerce business process recurring transactions will happen and different way payment methods, approval process are involved. For example (Seller) Dealer and Seller (Buyer) or (Seller) Big Merchant and Small Merchant (Buyer).
3. Commerce to Commerce (C2C):
Another kind of ecommerce business process in which customer is selling goods to another customer. A simple example is
(Seller) Individual in Quikr and Another individual (Buyer) Considering few very famous development platforms like .Net or Java many ecommerce platforms are developed and made available in the market place. Oracle ATG ecommerce is one among them. Each individual ecommerce solution has their own features and support for the different business process. As I have mentioned earlier, it completely depends on the factors which will help business team to decide on what ecommerce solution would be suitable for for implementation.
Basically, most of the ecommerce platform supports features like Customer management, Product Catalog management, Search features, Product pricing, Promotions, coupons, Cart management, Inventory, Checkout, Order fulfilment, Messaging systems, Customer support, Returns and Rewards, Content management...etc.
A brief history of Oracle ATG ecommerce:
ATG (Advance Technology Group) has developed eCommerce solution popularly called as ATG eCommerce. Later its acquired by Oracle and Now it’s called as Oracle ATG eCommerce. In future It may be named as Oracle Commerce as well.
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