Promote the spirit of teamwork to enhance company's overall competitiveness, and encourage closer communication between front-end and back-end management teams for better mutual understanding.
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The killers are the high-speed back-end connection and the back-end system that validates users and provides for billing.
This means decoupling the back-end processing from the client, which allows the back-end processing to occur with minimal communications with the client.
When Goodwin's attention is turned from the customer front-end to the "manufacturing" back-end, however, the hard-driving Scot lives up to his renown for the knife.
It turned out that the programmer who had built the link between the front-end sales system and the back-end inventory system had somehow managed to duplicate a line of code.
But in the end, tax policy and back-end redistribution can only go so far.
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Do funds in your portfolio have front- or back-end loads or short-term trading fees?
As Karma cofounder Lee Linden told me when I interviewed him at South By Southwest last year, Karma had built the back-end infrastructure for e-commerce operations.
The big goal is to push all the heavy back-end work forward to front-line workers, often as a "dashboard" on a handheld device.
Preparing for these dynamics on the front-end will serve as the foundation to increase the probability of your success on the back-end of a meeting.
Further, since 4G is an IP-based technology, back-end systems will be upgraded to IP-capable networks and this will provide opportunities for Cisco and other companies in the IP router and infrastructure business.
"We think all the Web pages need to be generated from an application server that end users can access and that is tied to back-end databases, " says Burson, who believes NetWare 5.1 will address this issue.
We're trying to do some things to reduce loan repayments at the back end -- something called income-based repayment, IBR -- you can take a look at.
One wonders whether Dell's decision to use Linux in the back end--rather than Windows--is indicative of Microsoft's chances of penetrating the hallowed halls of real enterprise computing.
It starts when the Back-Up Camera helps you safely reverse out of your driveway, continues through your commute with premium GPS navigation features, and does not end until the Back-Up Camera helps you park the car without damage or stress and you finally shut off the ignition.
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Bling Nation is looking to change that with its service, which pairs RFID-enabled stickers with a back-end system that charges purchases to credit cards (via PayPal) and sends text-message receipts to cellphones.
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It can do this by having built a suite of off-the-shelf tools and back-end structures that, for most of its new companies at least, it can deploy in a pick-and-mix way.
I'll just say here that I will think of these young warriors -- the ones who fought, the ones who keep on fighting, the ones who never made it back -- till the end of my days.
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All the back-end hardware and maintenance is taken care of by tech consultant Affordable Business Solutions.
Most have chosen to provide back-end scheduling services that the client company deploys on its site.
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"We've already moved 14 systems to Linux, " says Mott, referring to corporate back-end applications.
Connecting to back-end systems to integrate existing enterprise data into the workflow becomes critical.
In the old model, software was created to smooth processes and increase efficiency for back-end systems.
Their businesses need scalable infrastructure to develop and host the back-end services for their apps.
Tim Clem, 30, was hired at GitHub last year for a back-end coding job.
But many of the fund sponsors substituted nearly equivalent 12b-1 fees and back-end loads.
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