The document discusses the ArchiMate® language as a tool for understanding, communicating, and managing changes in enterprise architecture, emphasizing its graphical notation and formal semantics. It describes how ArchiMate supports the Zachman framework by addressing various enterprise questions relating to inventory, processes, locations, roles, timing, and motivation through specific model types. Additionally, it highlights ArchiMate's capabilities for visualizations and analyses tailored for different stakeholders.

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Enterprise Architecture
With the ArchiMate® Language
And the Zachman Framework
Iver Band
February 3, 2015
Open Group Conference, San Diego California
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What is the ArchiMate® Language?
• A language for building understanding and
communicating and managing change
• A graphical notation with formal semantics
• A framework that describes and relates
business, application, and technology layers
• Extensions for modeling motivation as well as
implementation and migration
• Techniques for visualizations and analyses for
different stakeholders
• An open standard managed by The Open Group
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ArchiMate Business and Application Layer Example:
Integrated Project Management Toolset
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ArchiMate Supports Enterprise Architecture
With The Zachman Framework
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ArchiMate Models Answer the Questions
Posed by the Zachman Framework Columns
Question Model Type Examples of ArchiMate Support
What? Inventory Business and Data Objects, Products, Contracts,
Value, Meaning, Aggregation and Composition
Relationships
How? Process Business Processes and Functions, Flow and
Triggering Relationships
Where? Distribution Locations, Devices, Networks, Assignment
Relationships
Who? Responsibility Business Actors, Collaborations and Roles,
Assignment Relationships
When? Timing Business Events, Plateaus, Triggering Relationships
Why? Motivation Stakeholders, Drivers, Assessments, Principles,
Goals, Requirements, Influencing and Realization
Relationships
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ArchiMate Models Express the Zachman Row
Perspectives
Perspective Model Type Examples of ArchiMate Support
Boundaries Scope Lists • Catalogs of ArchiMate
Concepts
Concepts Business • Business Layer Viewpoints
Logical System • Application Layer Viewpoints
• Infrastructure Usage
Viewpoints
Physical Technology • Technology Layer Viewpoints
Configuration Tool • Application and Technology
Layer Viewpoints
• Mappings to standard design
languages such as BPMN, UML
and ERD
Instantiation Enterprise
Implementation
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