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  <mainDescription>&lt;p&gt; Business Patterns are a form of Design Pattern&amp;nbsp;(see &lt;a class=&quot;elementLinkWithType&quot;
    href=&quot;./../../../openup_basic/guidances/concepts/using_patterns,_0cr7cACrEdu8m4dIntu6jA.html&quot;
    guid=&quot;_0cr7cACrEdu8m4dIntu6jA&quot;&gt;Concept: Using Patterns&lt;/a&gt;) and are the business-domain 
  counterpart of &lt;a
    class=&quot;elementLinkWithType&quot;
    href=&quot;./../../../openup_basic/guidances/concepts/architecture_mechanism,_mzxI0A4LEduibvKwrGxWxA.html&quot;
    guid=&quot;_mzxI0A4LEduibvKwrGxWxA&quot;&gt;Concept: Architectural Mechanism&lt;/a&gt;. Just as 
  similar problems in the technical domain may be solved by using Architecture 
  Mechanisms, similar problems in the business domain can be solved by using Business 
  Patterns. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Business Patterns are often found in COTS products. For example, packaged 
  applications that support Enterprise Resource Planning or Customer Relationship 
  Management ship with functionality to support a variety of generic business 
  processes. Similarly, it is frequently possible to identify related or similar 
  behavior in the Use Case&amp;nbsp;Scenarios&amp;nbsp;and thereby derive generic designs 
  that you can use in the design of the system. These elements of generic behavior 
  can be&amp;nbsp;expressed as Design&amp;nbsp;Patterns and applied to the system design. 
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