B2B e-Commerce: Why It Business Should Incorporate e-Commerce

E-commerce is a broad term covering the buying and selling of goods electronically. E-commerce is an extremely fast growing and successful e-market that is being taken advantage of by businesses, consumers, and governments alike. However, business-to-business transactions in particular hold a majority of the market in e-commerce transactions. Since business to business e-commerce has a high volume of sales in e-commerce the authors decided to focus this paper on the business to business side of ecommerce. The following paper is a discussion on the history of e-commerce, web technology and information technology relating to business to business e-commerce, the advantages and disadvantages related to ecommerce, and the future of e-commerce relating to business-to-business e-commerce.