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What is Value Added Network

Chapter 87
Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends
A value added network (VAN) is a company that provides network capabilities to business partners that want to exchange electronic messages. A VAN provides also storage, back-up, security and other services in order to provide more message exchange functionality.
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Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration
Christoph Bussler (Merced Systems Inc., USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch087
Abstract
Businesses world-wide started exchanging electronic business messages with each other around 1970. This coincides with the emergence of wide-area computer networks. Immediately businesses realized the potential in sending electronic messages instead of paper letters in order to conduct business electronically with each other. Computer networks provided a significant increase of transmission speed, less failures due to message loss and direct processing of messages upon receipt without error prone manual transcripts from paper to computer terminals or vice versa. Overall, business interactions became a lot more reliable and efficient.
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