E-COMMERCE TO

M-COMMERCE

E-COMMERCEElectronic commerce, commonly known as ecommerce or eCommerce, is a type of industry where the buying and selling of products or services is conducted over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks

E-COMMERCE BUSINESS MODELS

Business to Consumer Business to Business Consumer to Business Consumer to Consumer Business to Employee

Business to Consumer(B2C)

Business to Business(B2B)

Consumer to Business(C2B)

Consumer to Consumer (C2C)

Business to Employee (B2E)

Advantages of E-Commerce

Faster buying/selling procedure, as well as easy to find products.

Buying/selling 24/7. More reach to customers, there is no theoretical

geographic limitations. Low operational costs and better quality of

services. No need of physical company set-ups. Easy to start and manage a business. Customers can easily select products from

different providers without moving around physically.

Disadvantages of E-commerce

Any one, good or bad, can easily start a business. And there are many bad sites which eat up customers’ money.

There is no guarantee of product quality. Mechanical failures can cause unpredictable

effects on the total processes. As there is minimum chance of direct customer to

company interactions, customer loyalty is always on a check.

There are many hackers who look for opportunities, and thus an ecommerce site, service, payment gateways, all are always prone to attack.

"Mobile Commerce is the use of information technologies and communication technologies for the purpose of mobile integration of different value chains an business processes, and for the purpose of management of business relationships.”

M-COMMERCE

M-Commerce Framework

Developer & provider plane

User plane

Mobile commerce applications

Wireless user infrastructure

Mobile middleware

Wireless network infrastructure

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Application developer

Content providers Other service provid.

Eqiupment vendorsWireless service providers

Users

Apps Contents

transaction responce

Contents Transaction request

Equipments Equipments

EqipumentsApp info.

M-Commerce Emerging Applications

Mobile Financial Applications (MFA)

Mobile Advertising (MA)

Mobile Inventory Management (MIM)

Product Location and Search (PLS)

MFA (Mobile Financial Applications)

MA (Mobile Advertising)

MIM (Mobile Inventory Management)

PLS (Product Location & Search)

Wireless infrastructure requirements for mobile commerceNetwork Requirements Specific Attributes

Multicast Support support for multicast in infrastructure wireless networks.

Network Dependability Impact and frequency of component failure

Quality of Service Bandwidth requirements, delays

Roaming Across multiple networks

Handoff over multiple wireless networks.

M-Commerce Applications

Mobile Ticketing. Content Purchase and Delivery. Location based services. Information services. Mobile Banking.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Providing wider reach.

Reducing time and order.

Small screens of most devices still limit types of file and data transfer (i.e. streaming videos, etc.)

Standards guiding applications and technology development and connection's)

WAP and SMS limited to small number of characters and text.

Use of graphics limited

Advantages Disadvantages

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN E-COMMERCE AND M-COMMERCE M-commerce keeps us in touch with the world

wirelessly by the help of satellites no matter where ever we are but e-commerce usually does not do that. It normally needs to be connected to internet by the help of wires.

M-commerce is always reliable and easy to access as compared to e-commerce.

Wireless handheld devices are easy to carry anywhere because of very low weight.

Conclusion

As m-commerce applications and wireless devices are evolving rapidly, one will take forward the other one towards empowering innovation, versatility and power in them.