The train wreck that was value added networks a mere five years ago has undergone marked repair, and savvy customers are now asking them to handle some real work: correlating b-to-b transaction documents. Now, with the network already in place, VANs are charging toward collaboration via shared views of data and metrics, Ephraim Schwartz reports in Collaboration brings value to VAN clouds. “These days, it is obvious that companies are looking for collaborative business environments from which everybody can review the same state of the process. VANs are certainly worth looking at.” Technology Industry