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| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Departments of a financial institution that perform work out of sight of customers, including bookkeeping and the processing of checks and loan payments. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term contrasts with the front office, where the primary tasks are carried out. For instance, in a software company development and sales would be considered front-office roles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Back office."
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Notwithstanding, local assembly is done inconspicuously, mainly at small workshops and the back office of retail outlets. (references) | |
OmniLink's network control center manages 50 corporate networks, incorporating central call-center and back office operations under one roof. The center was designed around the 911 rescue-center model. (references) | ||
In October 2000, VABank signed a contract with the American company, IFS International, to purchase IFS's back office card management system TP-CMS. The system is designed for the issuance and processing of international Visa and Europay cards. (references) | ||
Economic History | Philippines | This has attracted companies who seek to relocate back office operations, operate call centers, and perform accounting, software development, engineering, and electronic publishing from higher cost locations. (references) |
Philippines | The Philippine's stock of talented, English-speaking workers remains an attractive feature of the business environment, particularly for information technology (IT) sector investments and for back office operations. (references) | |
Latvia | The majority of Latvian companies, government institutions and financial institutions have commenced the development of their IT systems, including back office systems, LANs, accounting and financial control systems. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
back office | 144 |
back office outsourcing | 15 |
institutional and back office | 5 |
back office automation | 4 |
back office up | 4 |
back office processing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-f-f-i-k-o" | |
-4 letters: biface, boccia, boccie, coiffe, office. | |
-5 letters: acock, bocce, bocci, ceiba, cobia. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 43 4B 4F 46 46 49 43 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 01001001 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A C K   O F F I C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 0043 004B 004F 0046 0046 0049 0043 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363537452494040433739 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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