Question Re: Difference: Back end and Front End in Technology Q&A

Difference: Back end and Front End

Former Member — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:01:00 GMT

I normally get this question: You’ve worked on BW before, right? Backend or Front end? Any clear definitions for what “Backend” and “Front end” is about?

Also. I went to this project room and found out that those on the left side were the BW group and those on the right side were the ETL group, working on Informatica. I used to think those doing the extraction were the “Backend” while “the BW stuff were the front end. But here, one guys say, “we do the backend they are the BW guys ….

I will appreciate some clarification.

Re: Difference: Back end and Front End

Former Member — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:32:13 GMT

Amanda

It's a good question

Backend: Data Modeling and Design. Requirement gathering building info objects like Info Cubes, ODS Objects, Multi providers etc.

ETL: Responsibilities to extract Data from different Source system and load into BW while doing this they do all kind of mappings between source system and BW.

Front end: This is responsible to build reported based on ODS Objects and Cubes built by Backend team

Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask questions

thnaks

Sat

Re: Difference: Back end and Front End

Former Member — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:02:13 GMT

Hi Amanda;

Back end refers to the people who especially do the design and architecture kind of work and front end would be like users who will just use the system for daily transaction activities, that might envolves creating some reports too.

This terminalogy might be used in both systems(as you have mentioned BW and enformatica). Both themselves can have people for front end and back end.

Hope this helps.

Regards: