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E-commerce

nounid 2384·updated May 12, 2026
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The processes by which enterprises conduct business electronically with their customers, suppliers and other external business partners, using the Internet as an enabling technology Scope Note: E-commerce encompasses both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce models, but does not include existing non-Internet e-commerce methods based on private networks such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

plural
E-commerces
possessive
E-commerce's
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Framework definitions

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The processes by which enterprises conduct business electronically with their customers, suppliers and other external business partners, using the Internet as an enabling technology Scope Note: E-commerce encompasses both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce models, but does not include existing non-Internet e-commerce methods based on private networks such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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