Introduction Electronic commerce, abbreviated “e-commerce”, is the utilization and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) and related technologies in management and control of business processes and activities. Business type is the strategic organization of business components for the benefit of all stakeholders; e-business type is defined as the approach an organization acquires to attain profitability on the Internet, Currie, (56). There have been several types adopted by companies, these includes e-shops, e-marketing and collaboration platform, however, E-business types adopted have varied, as the classification of the types show a discrepancy, other researchers such as Sweeney,(51) have suggested types such as electronic order taking, electronic payment only, online catalogue and electronic payment, and a fully integrated e-business however the strategies and types have varied where some types have resulted to opportunities of success and profitability, while other types have resulted to challenges, where the adopting organizations have had to close shop or changed to a different type due to threats as Chaudhury,(231) argues. Types of e-commerce Collaboration platform e-commerce Collaboration platform types and marketing and e-auctions portal shall be considered in the research.Collaboration platforms have been adopted by some companies as a type of e-commerce Bidgoli, (54-56), these involve offering communication platform to clients; companies that have adopted such types have gained relative achievements. Exemplars are intralinks.com, twitter.com and facebook.com, collaboration platform type has therefore been successful. Marketing e-commerce and E-auctions portal Some companies have adopted marketing and e-auctions portal, which in some cases has resulted to failure and collapse of the firms; this can be highlighted by the closure of Priceline.com’s WebHouse Club Greenwich, Conan-based WebHouse Group licensee and Perfect YardSale which offered customers pre-owned products. Opportunities In e-business business, collaborative environment types are virtual workplaces which involve several components for information exchange, communication and working by different members or teams of an organization. The environment utilises and coalesce technological advances in videoconferencing, internet based conferencing and collaboration, online chats, archived and real time streaming, and instant messaging to a user friendly workspace. Several successful components are incorporated in collaboration type, these includes social computing. Social computing has been successful since it has impacted on business decision making, risks, opportunities and projections in order to gain strategic advantage. Among the impacts is the augmentation of shadow Information Communication Technology and grassroots social tools, where employees, have access to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via the Web opt to work without being physically present in their offices as argued by Currie, (34), furthermore cloud computing has impacted on the altering the field of Information technology, this has assisted organizations attain strategic competitive advantages via functional agility, cost reduction and innovation utilization. Social computing has also impacted on enterprise soft