Techno-Functional Consultants

hi,
      What is the job profile of Techno-Functional Consultants.

Hi Samy,
Technical people are expected to have some basic functional knowledge. But if they really have very good functional knowledge in 1 area then they are generally called "Techno-functional". Usually people work on a specific Application area in BW like say FI, MM, PP , etc called functional . BW functional would not do any development but they are rather in charge of overseeing whether the specific application functionality is implemented or not. They rather look for the functionality and not for the underlying code.
People working across application areas called technical. They are the ones who do all the development like creating BW objects and activating them.
Also refer this thread:
Advantage of Being Techno-Functional
Regards,
Subhasha Ranjan

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