ArchiMate® 3.0:
A New Standard
for Architecture
Marc Lankhorst
Iver Band
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Iver Band
Enterprise Architect
Cambia Health Solutions is a
nonprofit total health solutions
company dedicated to transforming
health care by creating a person-
focused and economically
sustainable system
Marc M. Lankhorst
Chief Evangelist
BiZZdesign is a software
company that supports
organizations in designing and
realizing business change
+31 6 44 092 359
m.lankhorst@bizzdesign.com
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marclankhorst
+1 503 276 1969
iver.band@cambiahealth.com
http://linkedin.com/in/iverpdx
Contents
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• Why ArchiMate?
• Highlights of the new ArchiMate 3.0 version
• Practical experiences and benefits in a
Connected Health Care case situation
Why One Language?
• Get away from the
“fuzzy pictures” image
• Clear communication
• No ambiguity
• Coherence
• Consistency
• Visualization
• Analysis
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What Does ArchiMate Provide?
• A language with concepts to describe architectures
• A framework to organize these concepts
• A graphical notation for these concepts
• A vision on visualizations for different stakeholders
• An open standard maintained by The Open Group
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Positioning ArchiMate
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Strategy models
Architecture models
Design/implementation
models
Business Model Canvas
Balanced Score Card
SWOT analysis
…
ArchiMate models
BPMN models
UML models
DMN models
…
Why a New Version of ArchiMate?
• Increasing demand for relating EA to business strategy
• Technology innovations that mix IT and physical world
• Usage in new domains, e.g. manufacturing, healthcare,
retail
• Improved consistency and comprehensibility
• Improved alignment between Open Group standards,
notably TOGAF
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ArchiMate Industry Usage (N=199)
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27%
21%
13%
7%
6%
5%
4%
1%
1%
1%1%0.5%
13%
Government
Finance
Information technology
Healthcare
Retail
Manufacturing
Telecommunications
Mining, oil & gas
Media
Logistics
Utilities
Energy
Other
Poll on ArchiMate LinkedIn group, June 2015
Structure of ArchiMate
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Core Framework Aspects
Passive
structure
Object
‘What’
Behavior
Verb
‘How’
Active
structure
Subject
‘Who’
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Core Framework Layers
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Application
Technology
Business
Passive
structure
Behavior Active
structure
Aspects
Layers
Adding Motivation
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Application
Technology
Business
Motivation
Layers
Passive
structure
Behavior Active
structure
Aspects
Implementation
& Migration
Adding Implementation & Migration
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Application
Technology
Business
Motivation
Layers
Passive
structure
Behavior Active
structure
Aspects
New: Strategy Elements
Strategy
Implementation
& migration
Application
Technology
Business
MotivationPassive
structure
Behavior Active
structure
Aspects
Layers
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New: Physical Elements
Strategy
Implementation
& migration
Physical
Application
Technology
Business
MotivationPassive
structure
Behavior Active
structure
Aspects
Layers
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Highlights of the New Version
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New Strategy Elements
• Added concepts for modeling strategy, capability-based
planning and related domains
• This supports the increased usage of EA in supporting
strategy execution
• New concepts are in line with approaches like TOGAF,
BizBOK, BMM
• Work is proceeding on Capability-Based Planning with
the ArchiMate language
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Outcome
Motivation &
Strategy
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Capability
Course of Action
Goal
Driver
Capabilities and Resources
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Resource
Capability
ArchiSurance Capability Map
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New Physical Elements
• Extended the Technology Layer with elements for
modeling the physical world
• Manufacturing, logistics and other physical environments
• Also for modeling integration of physical and IT worlds
• For example, computer-controlled machinery or the Internet
of Things
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Physical Elements Example
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Material
Facility
Equipment
Distribution
network
Relationships to Relationships
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Grouping
• A grouping now has an aggregation (or composition)
relationship with its contents, making it much more useful
• You can also draw relationships to and from a grouping
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Modeling Health Solutions
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Some ArchiMate 3.0 Opportunities
In a Total Health Solutions Company
• Capability-based planning
• Enterprise service-oriented architecture
• Application rationalization across multiple generations
of health insurance applications
• Support consistent development and optimal use of big
data solutions
• Incorporating mobile health technology into enterprise
models
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Claims Processing as a Service Strategy
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Connected Health Case Study
• WLPH provides white-label personal health and wellness websites
• It integrates with two types of connected health devices (CHDs)
• One type is manufactured in Germany and available online
• Competitors integrate with a broad range of CHD brands and
types
• Large customers are dissatisfied with limited CHD support
• Sales staff report this as a key factor in lost deals
• Therefore, WLPH plans to use the ANYDEV digital health
platform, which accesses a broad range of CHD service providers
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Connected
Health
Device
Ordering
and
Distribution
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Connected
Health
Device
Management
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Integration
With
Device-
Specific
Service
Provider
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Concluding Remarks
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ArchiMate 3.0 Enhances
Visualization of Complex Models
• New strategy elements that link strategy to architecture
• Enhanced grouping for many-to-one relationships
• Joint realization for multifaceted dependencies
• Application, technology and implementation events for
external behavior
• Application and technology processes for complex processes
• Improved customization mechanisms ease support for
different categories of standard entities and relationships
• Enhanced focus on viewpoint mechanism encourages most
useful views of complex architectures
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Summarizing ArchiMate 3.0
• Modeling business strategy, where EA is becoming
increasingly important
• Modeling the physical world to support the Internet of
Things, manufacturing, logistics, etc.
• Improved usability, consistency and support for complex
models
• Definitions are better aligned with other standards
• Thus it offers even greater support in dealing with
digital transformation and business change!
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Information on the Standard
• The Open Group: www.opengroup.org/archimate
• Discussion forum on LinkedIn (>8000 members!):
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/50758
• Quick reference of all concepts:
offers.bizzdesign.com/archimate3
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Your Questions
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Iver Band
Enterprise Architect
Cambia Health Solutions is a
nonprofit total health solutions
company dedicated to transforming
health care by creating a person-
focused and economically
sustainable system
Marc M. Lankhorst
Chief Evangelist
BiZZdesign is a software
company that supports
organizations in designing and
realizing business change
+31 6 44 092 359
m.lankhorst@bizzdesign.com
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marclankhorst
+1 503 276 1969
iver.band@cambiahealth.com
http://linkedin.com/in/iverpdx

ArchiMate 3.0: A New Standard for Architecture