1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, at a generic interface associated with at least one backend application, a request for data from a particular backend application; identifying a service for execution associated with the received request based at least in part on the received request; identifying a configuration entry associated with the identified service in a configuration table, where the configuration entry defines a set of access-related information associated with at least one business object associated with the backend application; and requesting data from a business logic layer of the backend application based, at least in part, on the access-related information associated with the at least one business object.