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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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.

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How this will play out on the front end is unknown, but rather than supplying a kludgy front end to a broken back end, Google must see light at the end of the tunnel and believe it can supply both front and back ends and dispense with that piece of the Microsoft relationship entirely.

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Thus, we spend two extra nights in a hotel on the front end and one extra night in a hotel on the back end.

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But helping the front end, know what your costs are, more transparency and help at the back end.

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"He managed to get his front paws on the ice and I pushed his back end up so he was on the ice, then I used the leash and him to kind of pull myself up onto the ice, " Shaw said.

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My solution was to place it between the two front seats and have it stand on end, where it would face the back.

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He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.

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