Business Workflow - ABAP or Basis?

We just had un upgrade to ECC6 and  we need to setup Business Workflow. Its very new to us. And we don't even know who really handles this. Is it the ABAP or Basis guys? What does ABAP do and what does the Basis people do with regards to Business workflow? Pls. enlighten. Thanks!

Hi As per my knowledge.. ABAP people will do development work after basic workflow configurations are in Place. It's basis people who has to take care of configurations.

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