Business Patterns are a form of Design Pattern (see Concept: Using Patterns) are the business-domain counterpart of Concept: Architecture Mechanism.
Just as similar problems in the technical domain may be solved by the use of Architecture Mechanisms, so similar
problems in the business domain can be solved by Business Patterns.
Business Patterns are often found in COTS products. For example, packaged applications supporting Enterprise Resource
Planning or Customer Relationship Management will ship with functionality to support a variety of generic business
processes.
Similarly, it is frequently possible to identify related or similar behaviour in the use case scenarios and
derive generic designs that can be used in the design of the system.
These elements of generic behaviour can be expressed as design patterns and applied to the design of the
system.
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