Business-to-business (B2B)

B2B solutions

B2B Is that kind of activity when two companies spend business of transaction with the help the Internet. For example, the company can place inquiry about offers, receive current quotations from the suppliers, to conclude the contract, to receive or pay accounts, to publish documents. This kind of activity in the Internet is the most perspective for the Russian companies. He allows to construct at new level commercial communications between manufacturers and creates favourable circumstances for partner relations between them. The market becomes more open and there is a weight of possibilities of interaction and acquisition of necessary services in the local market, relieving of necessity of import of materials and the equipment from abroad or long search of the business partner. In the international sense, electronic commerce gives the companies of more chances for high activity in the global market. System B2B solutions can be as opened which usual users or other possible partners can see and visit, and closed - existing only for certain partners or working groups and executing only certain technological functions.

On functionality among sites B2B solutions it is possible to allocate following groups:

Catalogues. Are the most trivial variant of a site of type B2B solutions where buyers find the seller of commodity positions with the fixed price.
Electronic stock exchanges. Differ more complexity in comparison with catalogues and are functionally similar to real stock exchanges. Are used basically for trade in the consumer goods, such as grain, a paper, metal etc.
Auctions. Such sites are functionally similar to real auctions and virtual auctions B2C, but owing to specificity of model B2B solutions are often used for sale of surpluses of stocks.
Electronic communities. Business dealing not always is reduced only to fulfilment habitual by all business of transactions. There are many other directions in which to business participation of partners can be demanded. For example, any researches, political lobbying or an exchange of ideas. The Internet is the ideal environment for association of efforts and interests.

B2C - Business for the Consumer

B2C - Is the most popular form of electronic commerce for today. In this case activity is aimed at direct sales for the consumer. One of the largest examples B2C is www.amazon.com, the American book-selling site which services use more than 50 million clients worldwide. He has managed to undermine the usual second-hand market of the USA within several years. At the solved problems with access to the Internet to regions, reliable work of payment systems and delivery services, B2C it is effective for elimination of distinctions between big cities and remote regions in sense of availability of the goods and services for the consumer. B2B solutions creates new technology of sales which facilitates delivery of the goods and services to consumers in any part of the world.