zippi says:

e-commerce stands for electronics commerce.it refers to use of icts(information communication techniques)for biz to biz,biz to customer and biz to public administration interactions.it mainly comprises of electronic market,electronic data interchange(EDI) and internet tecnologies.its benefits are 1.it provides better choice to customer as well as biz for any purpose by using electronic market and internet technologies 2.it reduces efforts and errors in transactions using EDI 3.better and fast way to advertise and sell things for biz.