This White Paper provides an overview of the ArchiMate® 3.0 Specification, an Open Group Standard, including the role of the language in Enterprise Architecture, a description of its structure and content, and a summary of the new features of this major update.
The ArchiMate 3.0 Specification is a major update to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification, and was published as an Open Group Standard in June 2016. New features included in Version 3.0 include elements for modeling the enterprise at a strategic level, such as capability, resource, and outcome. It also includes support to model the physical world of materials and equipment. Furthermore, the consistency and structure of the language have been improved, definitions have been aligned with other standards, and its usability has been enhanced in various other ways.
The ArchiMate Language for Enterprise and Solution ArchitectureIver Band
The ArchiMate standard provides:
* A language with concepts to describe architectures
* A framework to organize these concepts
* A graphical notation for these concepts
* Guidance on visualizations for different stakeholders
* An open standard maintained by The Open Group
This presentation illustrates the value of ArchiMate modeling with a Big Data case study.
The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method recommends that "an architecture description be encoded in a standard language". As the Open Group standard for enterprise modeling, Archimate is a strong candidate for this role. This presentation will explore how a diversified financial services company selected and is using Archimate for its TOGAF® implementation. The speaker will compare available enterprise modeling languages and explain why Archimate was selected, and will explain how his organization developed an enabling metamodel and diagram templates using a leading enterprise modeling tool. Methodology transition will also be covered, including how existing diagram types were mapped to TOGAF®, and how TOGAF® diagram content was mapped to Archimate.
Delivered at February 2011 Open Group San Diego Conference
What Can We Do With The ArchiMate Language?Iver Band
Last year, the Open Group released version 3.0 of the ArchiMate® standard, which provides a language with concepts for describing enterprise and solution architectures, a framework for organizing these concepts, a graphical notation for these concepts, and recommendations for viewpoints, which are visualization templates that address the concerns of particular stakeholders. The standard is public and free for end users. It can be extended through specialization of its concepts and relationships, and is supported by an increasing number of tools, consultancies and training organizations.
We use a fictitious—but realistic—case study to describe what we can do with the ArchiMate language. Each of the sections in this article presents one or more views of an ArchiMate model that tells a story about the collection and analysis of Big Data to create business value. Big Data consists of datasets that cannot be handled efficiently with traditional centralized data architectures due to their extensive volume, variety, velocity and variability. These characteristics demand scalable architectures for efficient storage, manipulation and analysis.
ArchiMate 3.0: A New Standard for ArchitectureIver Band
This keynote presentation from the July 2016 Open Group Austin Conference introduces the new version of the ArchiMate standard. ArchiMate 3.0 extends the language with various concepts that help enterprise architects tackle challenges in digital transformation and business change. This major new version introduces explicit support for capability-based planning, and improves linkage between business strategy and all architecture layers. ArchiMate 3.0 also enables modelers to describe the Internet of Things and the systems of the physical world, such as manufacturing and logistics. In addition, the new version supports more compact and intuitive visual models. This presentation includes examples that use these improvements and demonstrates how architects can benefit from them.
In this presentation Bruno Vandenborre, The Open Group accredited trainer at Real IRM, explores the purpose and utility of the new version of the ArchiMate standard. As well as a look at the updates and changes to the new version, he discusses the various responses and critiques to ArchiMate, and provide insight into how ArchiMate benefits the South African market.
The ArchiMate Language for Enterprise and Solution ArchitectureIver Band
The ArchiMate standard provides:
* A language with concepts to describe architectures
* A framework to organize these concepts
* A graphical notation for these concepts
* Guidance on visualizations for different stakeholders
* An open standard maintained by The Open Group
This presentation illustrates the value of ArchiMate modeling with a Big Data case study.
The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method recommends that "an architecture description be encoded in a standard language". As the Open Group standard for enterprise modeling, Archimate is a strong candidate for this role. This presentation will explore how a diversified financial services company selected and is using Archimate for its TOGAF® implementation. The speaker will compare available enterprise modeling languages and explain why Archimate was selected, and will explain how his organization developed an enabling metamodel and diagram templates using a leading enterprise modeling tool. Methodology transition will also be covered, including how existing diagram types were mapped to TOGAF®, and how TOGAF® diagram content was mapped to Archimate.
Delivered at February 2011 Open Group San Diego Conference
What Can We Do With The ArchiMate Language?Iver Band
Last year, the Open Group released version 3.0 of the ArchiMate® standard, which provides a language with concepts for describing enterprise and solution architectures, a framework for organizing these concepts, a graphical notation for these concepts, and recommendations for viewpoints, which are visualization templates that address the concerns of particular stakeholders. The standard is public and free for end users. It can be extended through specialization of its concepts and relationships, and is supported by an increasing number of tools, consultancies and training organizations.
We use a fictitious—but realistic—case study to describe what we can do with the ArchiMate language. Each of the sections in this article presents one or more views of an ArchiMate model that tells a story about the collection and analysis of Big Data to create business value. Big Data consists of datasets that cannot be handled efficiently with traditional centralized data architectures due to their extensive volume, variety, velocity and variability. These characteristics demand scalable architectures for efficient storage, manipulation and analysis.
ArchiMate 3.0: A New Standard for ArchitectureIver Band
This keynote presentation from the July 2016 Open Group Austin Conference introduces the new version of the ArchiMate standard. ArchiMate 3.0 extends the language with various concepts that help enterprise architects tackle challenges in digital transformation and business change. This major new version introduces explicit support for capability-based planning, and improves linkage between business strategy and all architecture layers. ArchiMate 3.0 also enables modelers to describe the Internet of Things and the systems of the physical world, such as manufacturing and logistics. In addition, the new version supports more compact and intuitive visual models. This presentation includes examples that use these improvements and demonstrates how architects can benefit from them.
In this presentation Bruno Vandenborre, The Open Group accredited trainer at Real IRM, explores the purpose and utility of the new version of the ArchiMate standard. As well as a look at the updates and changes to the new version, he discusses the various responses and critiques to ArchiMate, and provide insight into how ArchiMate benefits the South African market.
Object Oriented Business Capability Map - IIBA 2022 - Draft.pptxAustraliaChapterIIBA
Join IIBA® Melbourne as they host an online event specifically on how to develop business capability maps.
About this event
Ever wondered how to develop business capability maps? or perhaps you need a refresher?
Join Mohammad Mirkarimi Senior Business Architect at Capsifi and David Grindlay Principal Business Architect at Capsifi as they guide us through this session.
Captivated by art, science and business - Mohammad is trying to bring these three together. Moh is a drummer, a physics and biology enthusiast, and a business architect and analyst. He has studied Engineering, Business Management and Finance in academia. Also, equipped with IIBA, TOGAF and The Business Architecture Guild bodies of knowledge. Moh has worked as team member, leader and visionary in Management Consulting, Banking, Wealth, Insurance, Government, Telecom and Education industries.
With over 15 years of experience implementing software, David started his career as a business analyst in South Africa primarily in the financial services – insurance industry. In 2014 he moved over to Australia where he really started to observe the notorious gap between business strategies and project roadmaps as well as the downstream implications. More recently in his career, he gained broader exposure to other industries (Retail, Financial Services, Government and Hospitality) helping to structurally decompose business strategies, define the business landscape and help project teams (Business and Technical) realise and align on their common purpose. Today, David considers himself a Business Architect, doing whatever it takes to help companies realise their vision.
This session will contain two parts:
The first part is about learning the basics. There will also be time to review some theoretical stuff – but we promise it won’t be boring! We’ll review The Business Architecture Guild’s view by taking an Object-oriented approach to developing a business capability map
In the second part, we’ll pick a business (a simple one for this exercise, e.g. local cafe) and apply what we’ve studied to develop a business capability map for the chosen business.
At the end of the session, there will be time to share our learnings!
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
These slides were presented as a 1 hour global webcast in partnership with The Open Group.
Summary: In an increasingly competitive landscape, organisations are becoming more aware how important it is to develop business services models that are aligned to customer values. Organisations that are not able to take a customer focused perspective are losing footing in the market as they attempt to understand what it means to architect for the customer.
Topics include:
- The Pressures caused by Disruption
- Performance and Expectation Gaps at the CxO level
- Improving Architecture Value
- Discipline Confusion
- Unifying the Enterprise
- Architecture Services Design
- Architecture Demand Analysis
Don't be scared, level zero in a capability map is just a way to structure the map so that we have a consistent way of communicating. It's really not that important if all you wish todo is create an excellent set of capabilities for your business. However if you are intent on changing the foundation of your business then level zero is absolutely imperative to get right. Capabilities and capability maps are not organization structures, they do however serve as a powerful instrument when one need to create an organization architecture, in fact they are best thought of as organizing structures.
Modeling Enterprise Risk Management and Security with the ArchiMate LanguageIver Band
Enterprise Architects can use the ArchiMate® language to model Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and security concepts and relationships. This widely accepted open standard provides the modeling constructs to describe and interconnect business and technical architectures. Applying the ArchiMate language to represent risk and security concepts results in the ideal vehicle to consider these aspects in an integral way. The ArchiMate language fits well with other Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks and standards, such as the TOGAF® standard and the Zachman framework, as well as enterprise security management frameworks such as the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA).
Through its Motivation extension, the ArchiMate language makes it possible to link control measures to security requirements, principles, and goals, as well as to the results of a risk analysis. On the other hand, ArchiMate models can be linked to design languages for business processes and IT solutions such as BPMN and UML. These linkages enable precise gathering of a set of broadly accepted risk and security concepts, analysis of their semantics, and consensus regarding the most important ones of the full scope of enterprise risk.
This White Paper, a joint project of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum and The Open Group Security Forum, demonstrates this approach and identifies opportunities for future work that would enhance it.
Cloud architecture with the ArchiMate LanguageIver Band
Today's commercial cloud platforms enable the migration of on-premises architectures to environments that offer increased flexibility, resilience, and security. These platforms also offer innovative managed services that enable architects, designers and developers to focus on business logic and user experience rather than underlying infrastructure.
Enterprise Architects can use the ArchiMate language to guide the use of cloud platforms to meet business and technical goals. This presentation models an architecture based on a leading cloud platform. The model uses all layers and aspects of the ArchiMate language as well as its customization mechanisms, which express vendor-specific platform elements and relationships. It provides an appreciation of the depth and versatility of the ArchiMate 3.0 language, and an introduction to developing architectures that use commercial cloud platforms.
Presentation given by Wilbert Kraan at the second JISC Emerging Practices workshop (2012/07/03). Provides a basic overview of ArchiMate.
http://emergingpractices.jiscinvolve.org/wp/doing-ea-workshop-2/
This presentation is on leveraging Enterprise Architecture Governance and Project Portfolio Management Best Practices to:
Accelerate project execution
Manage project and architecture inter-dependencies
Deliver realised value
Improve Enterprise and PMO collaboration
This Case Study demonstrates the value of the ArchiMate® 2.1 modeling language for planning and expressing complex business transformation. The Case Study is about a fictitious manufacturer named ArchiMetal. Through high-level architecture modeling, the ArchiMate language illuminates the coherence between an organization, and its processes, applications, and infrastructure. This Case Study presents examples of ArchiMate models that can be elaborated as necessary for analysis, communication, decision support, and implementation.
An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Visual Modeling With The ArchiMate...Iver Band
A half-day introduction to the ArchiMate language, including core concepts, a visual Overview, and a case study. Introduces the entire language, including the Business, Application and Technology layers as well as the Motivation and implementation and Migration extensions. Ideal for enterprise and solution architects and other architecture contributors.
The case study uses the free Archi tool, and includes download instructions. Those interested in learning the language can attempt each case study exercise using Archi, and flip to the next slide to check their work.
Foundations of enterprise architecture management and archi mateStefan Schindewolf
At the end of this lesson you should be able to
Describe what an enterprise is
Explain the purpose of an Enterprise Architecture
Define further key terms and concepts related to Enterprise Architecture
Describe how the TOGAF Standard and the ArchiMate modeling language are related
Object Oriented Business Capability Map - IIBA 2022 - Draft.pptxAustraliaChapterIIBA
Join IIBA® Melbourne as they host an online event specifically on how to develop business capability maps.
About this event
Ever wondered how to develop business capability maps? or perhaps you need a refresher?
Join Mohammad Mirkarimi Senior Business Architect at Capsifi and David Grindlay Principal Business Architect at Capsifi as they guide us through this session.
Captivated by art, science and business - Mohammad is trying to bring these three together. Moh is a drummer, a physics and biology enthusiast, and a business architect and analyst. He has studied Engineering, Business Management and Finance in academia. Also, equipped with IIBA, TOGAF and The Business Architecture Guild bodies of knowledge. Moh has worked as team member, leader and visionary in Management Consulting, Banking, Wealth, Insurance, Government, Telecom and Education industries.
With over 15 years of experience implementing software, David started his career as a business analyst in South Africa primarily in the financial services – insurance industry. In 2014 he moved over to Australia where he really started to observe the notorious gap between business strategies and project roadmaps as well as the downstream implications. More recently in his career, he gained broader exposure to other industries (Retail, Financial Services, Government and Hospitality) helping to structurally decompose business strategies, define the business landscape and help project teams (Business and Technical) realise and align on their common purpose. Today, David considers himself a Business Architect, doing whatever it takes to help companies realise their vision.
This session will contain two parts:
The first part is about learning the basics. There will also be time to review some theoretical stuff – but we promise it won’t be boring! We’ll review The Business Architecture Guild’s view by taking an Object-oriented approach to developing a business capability map
In the second part, we’ll pick a business (a simple one for this exercise, e.g. local cafe) and apply what we’ve studied to develop a business capability map for the chosen business.
At the end of the session, there will be time to share our learnings!
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
These slides were presented as a 1 hour global webcast in partnership with The Open Group.
Summary: In an increasingly competitive landscape, organisations are becoming more aware how important it is to develop business services models that are aligned to customer values. Organisations that are not able to take a customer focused perspective are losing footing in the market as they attempt to understand what it means to architect for the customer.
Topics include:
- The Pressures caused by Disruption
- Performance and Expectation Gaps at the CxO level
- Improving Architecture Value
- Discipline Confusion
- Unifying the Enterprise
- Architecture Services Design
- Architecture Demand Analysis
Don't be scared, level zero in a capability map is just a way to structure the map so that we have a consistent way of communicating. It's really not that important if all you wish todo is create an excellent set of capabilities for your business. However if you are intent on changing the foundation of your business then level zero is absolutely imperative to get right. Capabilities and capability maps are not organization structures, they do however serve as a powerful instrument when one need to create an organization architecture, in fact they are best thought of as organizing structures.
Modeling Enterprise Risk Management and Security with the ArchiMate LanguageIver Band
Enterprise Architects can use the ArchiMate® language to model Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and security concepts and relationships. This widely accepted open standard provides the modeling constructs to describe and interconnect business and technical architectures. Applying the ArchiMate language to represent risk and security concepts results in the ideal vehicle to consider these aspects in an integral way. The ArchiMate language fits well with other Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks and standards, such as the TOGAF® standard and the Zachman framework, as well as enterprise security management frameworks such as the Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA).
Through its Motivation extension, the ArchiMate language makes it possible to link control measures to security requirements, principles, and goals, as well as to the results of a risk analysis. On the other hand, ArchiMate models can be linked to design languages for business processes and IT solutions such as BPMN and UML. These linkages enable precise gathering of a set of broadly accepted risk and security concepts, analysis of their semantics, and consensus regarding the most important ones of the full scope of enterprise risk.
This White Paper, a joint project of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum and The Open Group Security Forum, demonstrates this approach and identifies opportunities for future work that would enhance it.
Cloud architecture with the ArchiMate LanguageIver Band
Today's commercial cloud platforms enable the migration of on-premises architectures to environments that offer increased flexibility, resilience, and security. These platforms also offer innovative managed services that enable architects, designers and developers to focus on business logic and user experience rather than underlying infrastructure.
Enterprise Architects can use the ArchiMate language to guide the use of cloud platforms to meet business and technical goals. This presentation models an architecture based on a leading cloud platform. The model uses all layers and aspects of the ArchiMate language as well as its customization mechanisms, which express vendor-specific platform elements and relationships. It provides an appreciation of the depth and versatility of the ArchiMate 3.0 language, and an introduction to developing architectures that use commercial cloud platforms.
Presentation given by Wilbert Kraan at the second JISC Emerging Practices workshop (2012/07/03). Provides a basic overview of ArchiMate.
http://emergingpractices.jiscinvolve.org/wp/doing-ea-workshop-2/
This presentation is on leveraging Enterprise Architecture Governance and Project Portfolio Management Best Practices to:
Accelerate project execution
Manage project and architecture inter-dependencies
Deliver realised value
Improve Enterprise and PMO collaboration
This Case Study demonstrates the value of the ArchiMate® 2.1 modeling language for planning and expressing complex business transformation. The Case Study is about a fictitious manufacturer named ArchiMetal. Through high-level architecture modeling, the ArchiMate language illuminates the coherence between an organization, and its processes, applications, and infrastructure. This Case Study presents examples of ArchiMate models that can be elaborated as necessary for analysis, communication, decision support, and implementation.
An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Visual Modeling With The ArchiMate...Iver Band
A half-day introduction to the ArchiMate language, including core concepts, a visual Overview, and a case study. Introduces the entire language, including the Business, Application and Technology layers as well as the Motivation and implementation and Migration extensions. Ideal for enterprise and solution architects and other architecture contributors.
The case study uses the free Archi tool, and includes download instructions. Those interested in learning the language can attempt each case study exercise using Archi, and flip to the next slide to check their work.
Foundations of enterprise architecture management and archi mateStefan Schindewolf
At the end of this lesson you should be able to
Describe what an enterprise is
Explain the purpose of an Enterprise Architecture
Define further key terms and concepts related to Enterprise Architecture
Describe how the TOGAF Standard and the ArchiMate modeling language are related
Eugene Istomin - Event-driven Service DiscoveryZabbix
There are multitude of servers, services, dataflows, metrics, logs and actions - the usual way of perciving the IT field, with monitoring being just "the toolset X", "metrics", "triggers/actions", and logging is basically the same thing.
Why can't programs communicate with other programs by saying "Hello! We are alive and have a balanced configuration" or "Please help me, i need another CPU 'cos my workload was changed during last week"? Why are we currently perceiving monitoring from a human point of view?
The answer is simple: currently we use "human controls for machines" pattern in a very inefficient form.
In this talk Eugene Istomin will speak about true powerful of IT - TOGAF model, code-driven infrastructures, and cover event-driven service discovery.
Zabbix Conference 2015
3 things about EA that TOGAF doesnt saycccamericas
In the field of Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF is the world''s leading industry framework. But there are several important considerations to the practice of Enterprise Architecture that TOGAF leaves out. In this session by Michael Fulton, President of CC&C Americas, you will learn from one of the world''s leading TOGAF Certification trainers 3 things that TOGAF doesn't teach you about practicing Enterprise Architecture.
Architecting Next Generatio IT Operating Models Using IT4IT and SFIASukumar Daniel
A case study of a Transformation Initiative to move a Third Party from Traditional Mechanic Shop Mentality to a Customisation Studio Mentality by causing a paradigm Shift in Ways of Working
Modeling Big Data with the ArchiMate 3.0 LanguageIver Band
Health care enterprises use big data methods and technologies to gain insights for improving the efficacy, efficiency, and accessibility of their services. Effective big data initiatives require shared understanding among diverse stakeholders of business challenges and the often complex architectures required to address them. Enterprise and solution architects can use the ArchiMate language to build this understanding with compelling visual models.
This presentation introduces the ArchiMate 3.0 language, and uses it to explore the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Big Data Reference Architecture (NBDRA), and to present a health care case study based on the NBDRA. Participants will learn how to use the ArchiMate 3.0 language, in alignment with the TOGAF framework, to propose, justify and plan big data initiatives, and to guide their successful implementation.
The event had a choice of several relevant workshops ITIL & Service Delivery based. Typically each session was hosted by two expert IT Practitioners and with a class size of no more than 10 delegates for Workshops and 20 delegates for Master Classes. The class size was designed to allow engagement with both the experts and other delegates.
Use of ArchiMate at Colruyt Group (presentation by Brechtel Dero at the I.T. ...Patrick Van Renterghem
Presentation by Brechtel Dero at the I.T. Works/LoQutus meetup on July 1st, 2014 at Vlerick School Campus Gent. See http://www.meetup.com/The-big-pICTure-how-ICT-changes-business-and-society/events/181256842/ for full details on this event
Practical Enterprise Architecture in Medium-size Corporation using TOGAFMichael Sukachev
Overview on the Practical Enterprise Architecture approach using TOGAF ADM for architectures development, Zachman Framework as artifacts repository and Sparx EA as a modelling tool.
Using the TOGAF® 9.1 Architecture Content Framework with the ArchiMate® 2.0 M...Iver Band
A thorough comparison of the ArchiMate 2.0 metamodel with the Content Metamodel
from the TOGAF 9.1 Architecture Content Framework reveals that these two Open
Group standards are highly compatible. The ArchiMate 2.0 visual modeling language
is therefore well suited for architecture initiatives guided by the TOGAF 9.1 standard,
and this White Paper provides both theoretical preparation and practical guidance for
users of the ArchiMate language working on such initiatives.
This work supports The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information Flow by
further enabling the combined use of the TOGAF standard and the ArchiMate
modeling language for consistent representation of architectural information across
diverse organizations, systems, and initiatives.
Using the TOGAF® 9.1 Framework with the ArchiMate® 2.1 Modeling LanguageIver Band
This White Paper describes the TOGAF®
9.1 framework and the ArchiMate®
2.1 modeling language, showing at a high level how these two open standards from The Open Group can
be used together.
The main observations are:
The TOGAF framework and the ArchiMate language overlap in their use of viewpoints, and the concept of an underlying common repository of architectural artifacts and models; i.e., they have a firm common foundation.
The two standards complement each other with respect to the definition of an architecture development process and the definition of an Enterprise Architecture modeling language.
The ArchiMate 2.1 standard supports modeling of the architectures throughout the phases of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM).
The combined use of the TOGAF framework with the ArchiMate modeling language can support better communication with stakeholders inside and outside organizations supporting The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™.
The ArchiSurance Case Study is a fictitious example developed to illustrate the use of
the ArchiMate® modeling language in the context of the TOGAF® framework. The
Case Study concerns the insurance company ArchiSurance, which has been formed as
the result of a merger of three previously independent companies. The Case Study
describes the baseline architecture of the company and then a number of change
scenarios.
This Case Study is required to be used as an example throughout accredited
ArchiMate training courses. However, it is not part of the definition of TOGAF. This
work supports The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information Flow by
illustrating the combined use of the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards for consistent
representation of architectural information across diverse organizations, systems, and
initiatives.
Enhancing Organizational Performance by Creating a Culture of Stewardship wit...Iver Band
Genesis Financial Solutions (GFS), a leading nonprime consumer credit platform, has created a culture of stewardship with LeanIX. Stewardship at GFS includes acquiring, creating, sustaining, enhancing, and retiring assets. Stewards are the primary decision-makers for their assigned assets. They collaborate with consumer lending and technology leaders to guide the evolution of business capabilities, applications, and IT components.
Chronic Absenteeism Rate Prediction: A Data Science Case StudyIver Band
This was my capstone project for the Coursera Advanced Data Science with IBM Specialization. It demonstrates all phases of a data science project, including modeling with a neural network and a decision tree ensemble using Keras and scikit-learn.
Modeling and Evolving a Web Portal with the TOGAF Framework and the ArchiMate...Iver Band
Today's enterprise web portals are complex beasts. Leading portals deliver fresh and relevant personalized experiences to multiple audiences, each with their own branding, content, and interactions. They aggregate content from multiple sources and present it using components, some of which are are reused across audiences. They make users productive by interacting with core transactional systems, and secure themselves with role-based access control. Web portals require careful management to ensure they deliver robust, personal, agile, and sustainable experiences in the face of continuous change.
The ArchiMate language is ideal for elucidating the structure and function of web portal applications and infrastructure, and linking them to the consumer experiences and internal operations they support. Modelers can also link critical business stakeholders, drivers, and goals to requirements for new investments, link these requirements to changes in applications and infrastructure that satisfy them, and show how these changes can be implemented over time.
Join practicing Enterprise Architect and ArchiMate Forum Vice Chair Iver Band and portal expert Ryan Kennedy to learn how to use the TOGAF Framework and the ArchiMate language to depict complex architectures and the changes they require.
Always-On Services for Consumer Web, Mobile and the Internet of ThingsIver Band
US healthcare payers must develop innovative consumer businesses while continuing their core business operations
This requires a bimodal IT architecture with an Adaptive Service Layer between consumer and core business applications
This layer must enable reliable, scalable and reusable services
These Always-On services must protect core business systems and data
Organizations must understand service usage to build successful consumer apps
An Adaptive Service Layer can consist of an API Platform, BaaS and ESB
The Read, Publish, and Subscribe patterns enable a broad range of services
The Pass-Through pattern gives existing services added reusability, visibility and security
An Enterprise Repository can facilitate service reuse
Standards-based Enterprise Architecture can persuasively link business strategies to specific IT investments
Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Arch...Iver Band
The difficulty of strategy execution should not be underestimated
Capability-based planning helps make strategy concrete
Enterprise architecture closes the remainder of this gap, and ensures alignment and coherence
Enterprise portfolio management allows managing large enterprise landscapes based on business value
ArchiMate models tie it all together, providing a clear line of sight from strategy definition to realization
Powerful tool support makes this a strong combination!
Thought Leader Interview: Atefeh Riazi on the Past, Present and Future of Met...Iver Band
Atefeh Riazi, currently Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer at the United Nations, has also led IT at the advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, the New York City Housing Authority, and the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), an agency of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). This interview focuses on Ms. Riazi's work at the MTA leading the implementation of MetroCard, a fare collection system that serves 8.5 million daily commuters. MetroCard collects fares on bus and rail transit systems operated by the MTA and other government agencies serving New York City and surrounding counties in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Thought Leader Interview: Atefeh Riazi on the Past, Present and Future of Met...Iver Band
Atefeh Riazi, currently Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer at the United Nations, has also led IT at the advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, the New York City Housing Authority, and the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), an agency of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). This interview focuses on Ms. Riazi's work at the MTA leading the implementation of MetroCard, a fare collection system that serves 8.5 million daily commuters. MetroCard collects fares on bus and rail transit systems operated by the MTA and other government agencies serving New York City and surrounding counties in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Guiding Agile Solution Delivery with the ArchiMate LanguageIver Band
Solution Architects can develop clear and actionable guidance for Agile development teams using the ArchiMate language. They can rapidly leverage Enterprise Architectures, and specify just the right amount of detail to constrain the solution while leveraging developers' expertise, initiative and creativity. As solutions are developed, architectural models can be enriched with additional implementation details, enabling Solution Architects to contribute high-quality baseline architectures and reusable building blocks to their enterprise repositories. This presentation prepares Enterprise and Solution Architects to lead Agile implementation of their architectures and roadmaps.
Enterprise Architecture with the Zachman Framework and the Archimate LanguageIver Band
The ArchiMate visual modeling language enables modelers to create views for all columns and rows of the Zachman Framework. This brief presentation shows how the language and framework can be used together for business, data, application and technology architecture.
Book Review: Making Technology Investments ProfitableIver Band
In “Making Technology Investments Profitable”,
management consultant Jack Keen diagnoses and treats
business and IT leaders that expect value but let it slip
away. “On-value” is the essential companion to “on-time”
and “on-budget”. Too often, leaders choose inferior
investments, assume that on-time and on-budget
programs1 are also on-value, and are forced to shut
down programs after they disrupt or disappoint their
intended beneficiaries.
From Capability-Based Planning to Competitive Advantage: Assembling Your Bus...Iver Band
Many organizations are investing in capability-based planning, portfolio management, architecture and agile development processes. While they derive value from each practice, many struggle with getting all of them to work together. In rapidly evolving industries such as healthcare, businesses need to change continuously. Instead of programs and projects, they need transformation value networks that adapt to dynamic organizational and external drivers.
This presentation will use a unified framework and method to define and relate the ingredients for continuous transformation. The presenters will also demonstrate the value of standards-based visual modeling for integrating, expressing and improving business transformation practices. Visual models will show how American and European healthcare payers are improving quality and efficiency in response to demographic, economic and regulatory pressures.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how to integrate capability-based planning, portfolio management, architecture and agile development processes
• Identify and position key frameworks for capability-based planning, portfolio management, architecture and agile development processes
• Understand core concepts and key applications of the ArchiMate language for visual modeling, an Open Group standard
• Understand the basics of visually modeling business strategy and organizational transformation
• Become familiar with the objectives and methods for an example of business transformation
• Understand how and when to integrate strategic guidance into agile development processes
Thought Leader Interview: Dr. William Turner on the Software-Defined Future ...Iver Band
As the Vice President, Datacenter Architecture at Presidio,
William Turner, PhD has more than 20 years of hand-son,
full-project-cycle experience in strategizing, designing and
deploying large-scale Fortune 500 networks and security
solutions. His extensive background in banking, security,
and government has yielded several well regarded industry
standards and noted reference models.
Dr. Turner envisions and drives a future in which sophisticated software provisions and de-provisions IT infrastructure automatically in response to business needs. The specialized appliances enterprises traditionally rely upon will be replaced by industry-standard hardware playing necessary roles on demand.
EAPJ conducted this interview from the perspective of an infrastructure architect considering a software-defined future for the networking, hosting and storage underlying a
major upcoming application investment.
Thought Leader Interview: Allen Podraza on Records ManagementIver Band
Allen Podraza is a Certified Information Professional who believes that organizations benefit from developing a strategy for managing their information. He serves as the Director of Records Management & Archives for the American Medical Association in Chicago. He is an active member of a number of professional associations including the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), ARMA International and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and has advised organizations on the development and administration of records management and archive programs. He also provides a wealth of “How To” advice though his blog, posts, and tweets.
This interview uses the Architecture Development Method (ADM) of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®) as a template for interviewing Allen Podraza. As shown in the figure below, the ADM cycle focuses successively on the establishment of an architecture capability, the development of an architecture, planning for the transition to the new architecture, and architecture governance. Allen has responded to this unusual interview format with expert advice relevant to all aspects of the architecture lifecycle.
Visualizing IT at the Department of Homeland Security with the ArchiMate® Vi...Iver Band
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Luke McCormack recently
submitted testimony to a US Senate Subcommittee. This case study, which is based on CIO
McCormack’s testimony, demonstrates how enterprise architects using the ArchiMate® language can
quickly capture business situations using viewpoints defined in the ArchiMate specification. These
viewpoints are templates for views that address particular sets of stakeholder concerns. This case study
contains views based on and named after standard templates.
This issue focuses on how EA can empower organizations to achieve their goals. EA and quality expert Mike Novak compares the TOGAF®1 framework for enterprise architecture with the Baldrige approach to organizational performance assessment and improvement, and shows how organizations could benefit from integrating the two paradigms. This is a great article for all those who have wondered about the relationship between EA and quality practices, or would like to learn more about either paradigm. The article assumes a bit of familiarity with the TOGAF standard, so novices should consult one of the references at the bottom of this page. This issue also features an interview with Mike Callahan, a senior partner in AgileLayer, a business architecture methodology, software and consulting provider. Mike Callahan introduces us to his area of expertise, and explains how business architects practice many of the methods Mike Novak describes in his TOGAF/Baldrige article.
Building an Effective Enterprise Architecture Capability Using TOGAF and the ...Iver Band
The success of Enterprise Architecture (EA) initiatives depends heavily on the way an organization adopts the right EA frameworks and tools, and embeds the practice of EA. EA supports implementation of change in a coordinated way. Building an EA Capability is a process of change in itself, and thus can be supported by EA methods and tools. In this White Paper, we describe how a high-level approach for the initiation and development of the EA capability can be derived from TOGAF, complemented by the GRIP Approach: a practical way to manage and govern the process of building an effective EA capability.
Enterprises committed to aligning their process and systems investments with their business strategies must work at multiple architectural levels defined by the TOGAF ® standard, including enterprise-wide strategic architectures, and more granular segment and capability
architectures. Solution Architectures may occur at the segment and capability level. Enterprise Architectures are used for high-level direction setting and strategic planning, while Solution Architectures guide lower-level individual project efforts.
The ArchiMate ® visual modeling language standard is a natural choice for Enterprise Architectures while, for Solution Architectures, the Unified Modeling Language ® (UML ® ) provides a wide range of views, concepts, and relationships. When architects make these
common and workable choices, understanding how to use the ArchiMate language and UML together is necessary for efficient and precise alignment between the Enterprise and Solution Architectures.
This White Paper focuses on the use of the ArchiMate language for Enterprise Architectures and UML for IT Solution Architectures, even though both languages have other uses. However, this White Paper is also relevant to other uses of these languages. It explores several
ways of using the two languages together.
Cloud-Based CRM with On-Premises Integration at a Diversified Financial Servi...Iver Band
Last year, The Standard, a diversified financial service company, delivered two phases of its enterprise CRM solution for its Employee Benefits Sales and Retirement Plans Service functions. However, many of the data sources and applications necessary for a complete solution remained on-premises, presenting significant application integration challenges. To develop and gain approval for the solution architecture, the project architects combined an internal architecture development method based on elements of the Eclipse Process Framework with the ArchiMate® language and a powerful viewpoint from the TOGAF® Architecture Content Framework. This presentation gives an overview of the solution architecture and the architecture development process, with a focus on application integration. It explores how IT organizations can provide business value by integrating cloud-based CRM with established line-of-business applications. This presentation illustrates how the ArchiMate language can be used to model business, application, technology and information architectures, and how it empowers architects, enhances communication between diverse stakeholders, and complements existing architecture methods.
Key takeaways:
1. Typical enterprise CRM architecture problems and solutions for financial services companies
2. Techniques for integrating cloud and on-premises applications
3. How the ArchiMate language is used to develop and communicate complex solution architectures
Enhancing the ArchiMate® Standard with a Responsibility Modeling Language for...Iver Band
In this paper, we describe an innovative approach for aligning the
business layer and the application layer of ArchiMate to ensure
that applications manage access rights consistently with enterprise
goals and risk tolerances. The alignment is realized by using the
responsibility of the employees, which we model using ReMoLa.
The main focus of the alignment targets the definition and the
assignment of the access rights needed by the employees
according to business specification. The approach is illustrated
and validated with a case study in a municipal hospital in
Luxembourg.
Streamlining IT Application Selection and Integration with a Standard Modelin...Iver Band
IT customers, application providers, and system integrators generally do not use standard representations to describe
either application requirements or proposals to satisfy them. The resulting ambiguity exposes application selection and
integration processes, however well-structured and executed, to error and delay. Adoption of the ArchiMate® visual
modeling language, an Open Group standard, would therefore increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the business
application marketplace.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...
An Introduction to the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification
1. An Introduction to the
ArchiMate®
3.0 Specification
A White Paper by:
Andrew Josey, Marc Lankhorst, Iver Band, Henk Jonkers,
and Dick Quartel
June 2016
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary...................................................................4
Introduction to the ArchiMate Specification...............................5
The ArchiMate Language and Enterprise Architecture................................5
ArchiMate 3.0 Specification Overview......................................................6
What’s New in the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification? ........................8
Why a New Version of the Language? ......................................................8
Additions to Support Business Strategy Modeling and the Physical World ...8
Improved Usability and Consistency .......................................................11
The ArchiMate Language and the TOGAF ADM ..................... 15
Further Reading...................................................................... 16
References............................................................................... 17
About the Authors................................................................... 18
About The Open Group........................................................... 20
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Boundaryless Information Flow
achieved through global interoperability
in a secure, reliable, and timely manner
Executive Summary
This White Paper provides an overview of the ArchiMate®
3.0 Specification, an Open
Group Standard, including the role of the language in Enterprise Architecture, a
description of its structure and content, and a summary of the new features of this
major update.
The ArchiMate 3.0 Specification is a major update to the ArchiMate 2.1
Specification, and was published as an Open Group Standard in June 2016. New
features included in Version 3.0 include elements for modeling the enterprise at a
strategic level, such as capability, resource, and outcome. It also includes support to
model the physical world of materials and equipment. Furthermore, the consistency
and structure of the language have been improved, definitions have been aligned with
other standards, and its usability has been enhanced in various other ways.
This White Paper supports The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information
Flow™ by introducing a new version of a visual modeling language standard for
developing, analyzing, and communicating architectures with diverse stakeholders.
These architectures typically support organizational objectives such as improved
strategic alignment, interoperability, and performance.
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Introduction to the ArchiMate Specification
The ArchiMate Specification, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modeling language for
Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. The ArchiMate
language enables Enterprise Architects to describe, analyze, and visualize the relationships among
architecture domains in an unambiguous way.
Just as an architectural drawing in classical building architecture describes the various aspects of the
construction and use of a building, the ArchiMate Specification offers a common language for describing the
construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems,
and technical and physical infrastructure. ArchiMate models enable stakeholders to design, assess, and
communicate the consequences of decisions and changes within and between these architecture domains.
This White Paper provides an overview of the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification. The ArchiMate 3.0 Specification
is a major update to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification, and was published as an Open Group Standard in June
2016. New features included in Version 3.0 include elements for modeling the enterprise at a strategic level,
such as capability, resource, and outcome. It also includes support to model the physical world of materials
and equipment. Furthermore, the consistency and structure of the language have been improved, definitions
have been aligned with other standards, and its usability has been enhanced in various other ways.
The Development of the ArchiMate Language
The ArchiMate language was created in the period 2002-2004 in the Netherlands by a project team from the
Telematica Instituut in co-operation with several partners from government, industry, and academia,
including Ordina, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science
(LIACS), and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI). The development included tests in organizations
such as ABN AMRO, the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration, and the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP.
In 2008, the ownership and stewardship of the ArchiMate language was transferred from the ArchiMate
Foundation to The Open Group. Since 2009, The Open Group ArchiMate Forum has developed successive
versions and published them on The Open Group public website.
The ArchiMate Language and Enterprise Architecture
The role of the ArchiMate Specification is to provide a graphical language for the representation of
Enterprise Architectures over time (i.e., including strategic, transformation, and migration planning), as well
as the motivation and rationale for the architecture. The ArchiMate modeling language provides a uniform
representation for diagrams that describe Enterprise Architectures, and offers an integrated approach to
describe and visualize the different architecture domains together with their underlying relations and
dependencies.
The design of the ArchiMate language started from a set of relatively generic concepts (objects and
relations), which have been specialized for application at the different architectural layers of an Enterprise
Architecture. The most important design restriction on the ArchiMate language is that it has been explicitly
designed to be as compact as possible, yet still usable for most Enterprise Architecture modeling tasks. In the
interest of simplicity of learning and use, the language has been limited to the concepts that suffice for
modeling the proverbial 80% of practical cases.
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ArchiMate 3.0 Specification Overview
The contents of the specification are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Structure of the ArchiMate Standard
Chapter Description
Chapter 1: Introduction This chapter includes the objectives, overview, conformance
requirements, normative references, and terminology.
Chapter 2: Definitions This chapter includes definitions of the general terms used in the
document.
Chapter 3: Language Structure This chapter describes the structure of the ArchiMate modeling
language, including the top-level structure, layering, the ArchiMate Core
Framework, and the Full Framework.
Chapter 4: Generic Metamodel This chapter describes the structure and elements of the ArchiMate
generic metamodel.
Chapter 5: Relationships This chapter describes the relationships in the language.
Chapter 6: Motivation Elements This chapter describes the concepts for expressing the motivation for an
architecture, together with examples.
Chapter 7: Strategy Elements This chapter provides elements for modeling the enterprise at a strategic
level, together with examples.
Chapter 8: Business Layer This chapter covers the definition and usage of the Business Layer
elements, together with examples.
Chapter 9: Application Layer This chapter covers the definition and usage of the Application Layer,
together with examples.
Chapter 10: Technology Layer This chapter covers the definition and usage of the Technology Layer,
together with examples.
Chapter 11: Physical Elements This chapter describes the language elements for modeling the physical
world, together with examples.
Chapter 12: Cross-Layer
Dependencies
This chapter covers the relationships between different layers of the
language.
Chapter 13: Implementation and
Migration Elements
This chapter describes the language elements for expressing the
implementation and migration aspects of an architecture; e.g., projects,
programs, work packages, plateaus, and gaps.
Chapter 14: Stakeholders,
Viewpoints, and Views
This chapter describes the ArchiMate viewpoint mechanism.
Chapter 15: Language
Customization Mechanisms
This chapter describes how to customize the ArchiMate language for
specialized or domain-specific purposes.
Appendix A: Summary of the
Language Notation
This is an informative appendix summarizing the language notation.
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Chapter Description
Appendix B: Relationship Tables This is a normative appendix detailing required relationships between
elements of the language.
Appendix C: Example Viewpoints This is an informative appendix presenting a set of Architecture
Viewpoints.
Appendix D: Relationships to
Other Standards
This is an informative appendix describing the relationship of the
language to the TOGAF
®
Framework, BPMN™, UML
®
, and BMM.
Appendix E: Changes from
ArchiMate 2.1 to ArchiMate 3.0
This is an informative appendix outlining the changes between Version
2.1 and Version 3.0.
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What’s New in the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification?
Why a New Version of the Language?
The new version of the language has been created to respond to a number of requirements:
• Increasing demand for relating business strategy with business and IT operations
• Technology innovations that mix IT and the physical world
• Usage in new domains; e.g., manufacturing, logistics
• Improved consistency and comprehensibility
• Improved alignment between Open Group standards, notably with the TOGAF Framework
The key changes in the new specification are provided below.
Additions to Support Business Strategy Modeling and the Physical World
The ArchiMate framework has been extended to include strategy and physical elements, as shown in
Figure 1.
Figure 1: The ArchiMate Framework
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The strategy elements include elements for capability, resource, and course of action. The physical elements
build upon the Technology Layer and add elements for modeling physical facilities and equipment,
distribution networks, and materials.
Strategy Elements
Elements have been added to support modeling strategy, capability-based planning, and related domains.
This supports the increased usage of Enterprise Architecture in supporting strategy execution, and is in line
with approaches used in related standards, such as the TOGAF Framework [1] and the Business Motivation
Model [2].
Figure 2: Motivation and Strategy Elements Example
Figure 2 shows an example using both motivation and strategy elements. Note that outcome, course of action,
capability, and resource are new elements introduced in the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification.
Increase Profit is a goal that can be decomposed into a number of other goals: Decrease Costs and Increase
Revenue. The former is related to the Operational Excellence strategy of the company, modeled as a course
of action. This is decomposed into two other courses of action: Centralize IT Systems and Standardize
Products. These result in two outcomes: Decreased Costs and Loss of Customers, which influence the goals
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in positive and negative ways. This shows an important difference between goals and outcomes: not all
outcomes lead to the intended results.
The courses of action are realized by a number of capabilities: IT Management & Operations and Product
Management, and appropriate resources Human Resources and IT Resources are assigned to the former. The
model fragment also shows that these resources are located in the Headquarters of the organization, in line
with the Centralize IT Systems course of action.
Physical Elements
The Technology Layer has been extended with elements for modeling the physical world; for example,
manufacturing, logistics, and other physical environments.
Figure 3: Physical Elements Example
Figure 3 shows an example of physical elements. Note that all the elements shown in the example except for
Path, are new in the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification, and Path has been renamed from Communication Path and
its meaning extended to allow it to integrate with physical elements.
An Assembly Line, modeled as equipment, and installed at a facility Manufacturing Plant, makes use of
materials Pre-Assembled Circuit Board, Internal Antenna, and Plastic Case to produce material Vehicle
Telematics Appliance. The appliance, initially located at the Manufacturing Plant facility, is subsequently
transported to the facilities National Distribution Center and Local Distribution Center, making use of the
distribution networks Overseas Shipping and Local Trucking. These distribution networks together realize
the path Intermodal Freight.
No separate physical behavior elements have been introduced in the ArchiMate 3.0 Specification. Rather, the
behavior elements from the Technology Layer (technology function, process, interaction, service, and event)
are used to model the behavior of all nodes, including physical equipment. Since equipment is often
computer-controlled, or used in other ways having a close relationship to IT, the behavior can be described in
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an integral way using the existing technology behavior concepts. These concepts can also be used to describe
the behavior of sensors and the connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT).
Improved Usability and Consistency
A number of changes have been made to the language to improve its usability and consistency. These are
summarized below.
Generic Metamodel
An upper-level generic metamodel has been introduced to document the full structure of the language.
Composite Elements
Grouping is no longer classified as a relationship, it is now a composite element. A grouping now has an
aggregation or composition relationship with its contents, making it much more useful. It is also permissible
to draw relationships from or to a grouping. One useful way of employing grouping is for modeling
Architecture and Solution Building Blocks; another is for modeling domains in an architecture.
The location element has been moved from the Business Layer to the generic metamodel and defined as a
composite element.
Improvements in the use of nesting as a notation allow a better representation of related items in modeling.
Changed the Notation for the Representation and Contract Elements
The notation of representation and contract has been changed to differentiate these from deliverable and
business object, respectively.
Optional Notation to Denote the Layer of an Element
An optional notation has been introduced to explicitly denote the layer of an element. A letter ‘M’, ‘S’, ‘B’,
‘A’, ‘T’, ‘P’, or ‘I’ in the top-left corner of an element can be used to denote a Motivation, Strategy,
Business, Application, Technology, Physical, or Implementation & Migration element, respectively. Figure 4
is an example model showing Application and Technology elements.
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Figure 4: Element Notation Example
Relationships
Relationships to other relationships are now allowed in some cases; e.g., to associate objects with flows or
aggregate relationships within groupings or plateaus.
Figure 5: Example of a Relationship to a Relationship
The ‘used by’ relationship has had its name changed to ‘serving’, to better reflect its direction with an active
verb: a service serves a user. The meaning of the relationship has not been altered. The ‘used by’ designation
is still allowed but deprecated, and will be removed in a future version of the standard.
The notation of the influence relationship has been changed for consistency with the other dependency
relationships (access and serving).
Figure 6: Influence Relationship Notation
A directional notation has been introduced for the assignment relationship by replacing the black circle at the
target end by an arrow.
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Figure 7: Assignment Relationship Notation
A junction is no longer classified as a relationship, but as a relationship connector, A junction is now
explicitly either an ‘or’ junction, or a general ‘and’ junction.
Figure 8: Junction Notation
Motivation Elements
The outcome element has been added. The meaning and value elements have been transferred from the
Business Layer.
Events Added
Event elements with a time attribute have been added at all layers in the ArchiMate core language as well as
to the implementation and migration elements. The new elements are application event, technology event,
and implementation event, which correspond to the pre-existing business event.
Improved Consistency in the Layers
Added application process, technology process, technology interaction, and technology collaboration, to
increase the consistency of elements present in the layers.
Business Layer
The location, value, and meaning elements are no longer specified in the Business Layer.
The notation of the representation and contract elements has been changed, to distinguish these from
deliverable and business object, respectively.
Technology Layer
The elements in the Technology Layer have been renamed from ‘infrastructure [element name]’ to
‘technology [element name]’. The ‘communication path’ element has been renamed to ‘path’ and its
meaning has been extended, to support the physical elements. The ‘network’ element has been renamed to
‘communication network’, to distinguish it from the physical element ‘distribution network’.
Cross-Layer Relationships
Cross-layer relationships are now defined connecting the motivation and strategy with the core concepts
(business, application, technology, physical), which connects strategy with its implementation.
There are also changes in cross-layer relationships to support better alignment between elements of the
different layers (alignment of the Business Layer with lower layers).
Viewpoint Mechanism
Previous versions of the standard included an extensive list of viewpoints within the normative body of the
standard, and the ability to define viewpoints to fit a particular situation. In Version 3.0, the description of the
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viewpoint mechanism has been improved, and the list of viewpoints has been placed in an informative
appendix to make it clear that these are example viewpoints.
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The ArchiMate Language and the TOGAF ADM
The ArchiMate language consists of the ArchiMate core language, which includes the Business, Application,
and Technology Layers, along with elements to model the strategy and motivation underlying an architecture,
as well as its implementation and migration. Figure 9 shows a simplified mapping of how the ArchiMate
language can be used in relation to the phases of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM).
Figure 9: Simplified Mapping between the ArchiMate Language and the TOGAF ADM
The Business, Application, and Technology Layers support the description of the Business, Information
Systems, and Technology Architecture domains defined by the TOGAF framework, as well as their inter-
relationships.
The strategy and motivation elements in the ArchiMate language can be used to support the Requirements
Management, Preliminary, and Architecture Vision phases of the TOGAF ADM, which establish the high-
level business goals, architecture principles, and initial business requirements. They are also relevant to the
Architecture Change Management phase of the TOGAF ADM, since the phase deals with changing
requirements. Although not shown in Figure 9, it should be noted that these elements could also be used in
other ADM phases, such as Phases B, C, and D.
The implementation and migration elements of the ArchiMate language support the implementation and
migration of architectures through the Opportunities and Solutions, Migration Planning, and Implementation
Governance phases of the TOGAF ADM.
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Further Reading
The ArchiMate 3.0 Specification is available for online reading and download from The Open Group
Bookstore at www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c162.htm.
Consult the ArchiMate website at www.opengroup.org/archimate for the latest information on publications
and white papers.
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References
(Please note that the links below are good at the time of writing but cannot be guaranteed for the future.)
[1] TOGAF®
Version 9.1, an Open Group Standard (G116), December 2011, published by The Open
Group; refer to: www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/g116.htm.
[2] Business Motivation Model (BMM), Version 1.1 (formal/2010-05-01), Object Management Group,
2010.
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About the Authors
Andrew Josey
Andrew Josey is VP Standards and Certification, overseeing all certification and testing programs of The
Open Group. He also manages the standards process for The Open Group. Since joining the company in
1996, Andrew has been closely involved with the standards development, certification, and testing activities
of The Open Group. He has led many standards development projects including specification and
certification development for the ArchiMate®
, TOGAF®
, IT4IT™, POSIX®
, and UNIX®
programs.
He is a member of the IEEE, USENIX, UKUUG, and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA). He
holds an MSc in Computer Science from University College London.
Marc Lankhorst, BiZZdesign
Marc Lankhorst is Managing Consultant and Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. He is responsible
for market development, consulting, and coaching on digital business design and Enterprise Architecture, and
spreading the word on the ArchiMate modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. His expertise and
interests range from Enterprise Architecture and business process management to agile methods, portfolio
management, and digital business design. Previously, Marc was a Senior Member of Scientific Staff at
Novay (formerly Telematica Instituut), where he managed the collaborative R&D project that developed the
initial version of the ArchiMate language. He leads the core team of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum that
has defined the new version of the standard.
Iver Band, Cambia Health Solutions
Iver Band is a practicing Enterprise Architect and a developer and communicator of Enterprise Architecture
standards and methods. At Cambia Health Solutions, he has guided initiatives focusing on provider systems,
web and mobile experiences, and architecture methods and tools. He is currently focused on solutions that
provide information about healthcare consumers and groups. Iver is also the elected Vice-Chair of the
ArchiMate Forum. He has led development of several Open Group White Papers and contributed to the
second and third major versions of the ArchiMate language. He is TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 2 Certified, a
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Professional, an AHIP
Information Technology Professional, and a Prosci Certified Change Consultant.
Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign
Henk Jonkers is a Senior Research Consultant, involved in BiZZdesign’s innovations in the areas of
Enterprise Architecture and engineering. He participates in multi-party research projects, contributes to
training courses, and performs consultancy assignments. Previously, as a member of scientific staff at the
Telematica Instituut, he was involved in research projects on business process modeling and analysis,
Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and model-driven development. He was one
of the main developers of the ArchiMate language and an author of the ArchiMate 1.0, 2.1, and 3.0
Specifications, and is actively involved in the activities of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum.
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Dick Quartel, BiZZdesign
Dick Quartel is a Senior Research Consultant at BiZZdesign. In this role he contributes to the development
and improvement of BiZZdesign’s products and services, is involved in research projects, supervises MSc
students and interns, and performs consultancy assignments. In addition, he is an author of many scientific
and professional publications, and an author of the ArchiMate 2.1 and 3.0 Specifications. Previously, he
worked as a Senior Researcher at Novay (formerly Telematica Instituut), where he acted as researcher and
project manager and contributed to the definition and acquisition of research projects. As an Assistant
Professor at the University of Twente, he worked in the areas of distributed systems design, protocol design
and implementation, and middleware systems.
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