Links and books
Archimate EA metamodelhttp://www.opengroup.org/archimate/ ArchiMate is a modelling technique ("language") for describing enterprise architectures. It presents a clear set of concepts within and relationships between architecture domains, and offers a simple and uniform structure for describing the contents of these domains.- Ontologies - |
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The Open Group ArchiMate 1.0 Technical Standardhttp://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/ Architecture descriptions are formal descriptions of an information system, organized in a way that supports reasoning about the structural and behavioral properties of the system and its evolution. They define the components or building blocks that make up the overall information system, and provide a plan from which products can be procured, and subsystems developed, that will work together to implement the overall system. It thus enables you to manage your overall IT investment in a way that meets the needs of your business. To provide a uniform representation for such architecture descriptions, the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language has been developed. It offers an integrated architectural approach that describes and visualizes the different architecture domains and their underlying relations and dependencies. In a short time, ArchiMate has become the open standard for architecture modeling in the Netherlands, it is also fairly well known in the international enterprise architecture community, and recently it has been brought under the aegis of The Open Group.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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The Open Group Introduces ArchiMate 1.0 Standard Language for Modeling Enterprise Architectureshttp://www.opengroup.org/press/21apr09.htm Press Announcement April 21, 2009: New Standard Paves the Way for First Truly Global Enterprise Architecture Description Language. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that it has adopted ArchiMate version 1 as a standard global language for modeling enterprise architectures, including the industry standard architecture framework, TOGAF. Administered by The Open Group's ArchiMate Forum, ArchiMate 1.0 is a new language designed to provide enterprise architects a common vocabulary for describing, analyzing and visualizing enterprise architectures. By creating a single, common language, the ArchiMate Forum intends to help simplify the processes used within the enterprise architecture community for more effective work outcomes, as well as improve architecture tools offered by vendors.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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ArchiMate : Its Time Has Come?http://earchpal.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/archimate-its-time-has-come/ Sethuraj Nair: Proper representation of Enterprise Architecture has always been quite a challenge. Many times the sheer scope of the canvas required can be the problem, but most of the times it is the question of a proper style and standard of representation that poses issues to the IT architects. While Enterprise Reference Models (TRM or ARM) are normally pulled together as simple 'box of boxes', the lower level representations are vulnerable to subjectivity unless a firm modeling framework has been implemented and governed by the architecture board that controls the IT architecture of the enterprise.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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Archimate Stencils for OmniGrafflehttp://graffletopia.com/stencils/255 This is a set of Archimate stencils for OmniGraffle. Archimate is an enterprise architecture modelling language.- UML Tools - |
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Visualisation of Enterprise Architectureshttps://doc.telin.nl/dsweb/Get/Document-31616/Visualisation%20of%20Enterprise%20Architectures.pdf Arbab, F., Burger, F., ter Doest, H. (ed.), Iacob, M., Lankhorst, M., van Leeuwen, D., & van der Torre, L., Enschede: Telematica Instituut, 2003. This report describes a framework for visualisation of enterprise architectures based on separation of concerns between the ArchiMate concepts and presentation, the state of the art in lay-out techniques, algorithms and tools is explored, and a design is presented for a presentation engine.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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Mapping between ArchiMate and Standardshttps://doc.telin.nl/dsweb/Get/Document-38740/Mapping%20between%20ArchiMate%20and%20Standards.pdf Buuren, R. van, Groenewegen, L., Jonkers, H., Klaus, P., Lankhorst, M., Wiering, M. Telematica Instituut, 2004. In this deliverable we compare several standards and languages for modelling architectures with the ArchiMate language. RM-ODP, UML and the UML EDOC profile are important standards that are considered. Additionally, a standard (in development) and tool in the process-modelling domain are considered: BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation) and ARIS, respectively. We compare ArchiMate to these standards in three ways. First we compare frameworks or architectural viewpoints and domains that are covered. Second, we compare the languages with respect to equivalent concepts and relations. Third, we take a typical integrated ArchiMate model and try to create a similar model in another language.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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Architecture Language Reference Manualhttps://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-31626/ René van Buuren (ed.), Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Henk Jonkers, Marc Lankhorst & Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Enschede: Telematica Instituut, 2003-2005.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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ArchiMateArchiMate is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture, supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. ArchiMate provides instruments to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing and visualizing the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. Well-established disciplines like civil engineering or building and construction use internationally accepted standards for describing their designs. Just like an architectural drawing in classical building architecture describes the various aspects of the construction and use of a building, ArchiMate offers a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. This insight helps stakeholders to design, assess, and communicate the consequences of decisions and changes within and between these business domains.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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Integrating Architectural Modelshttps://pms.cs.ru.nl/iris-diglib/src/getContent.php?id=2006-Arbab-ArchitecturalModels F. Arbab, F.S. de Boer, M. Bonsangue, and M.M. Lankhorst. In: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Nr: 1, Vol: 2, Pages: 40-57, January, 2007. The diversity of architectural models in enterprise architecture is a problem for their integration. In this paper we distinguish three kinds of models from each other and their visualization, and we illustrate how the distinctions can be used for model integration within the architectural approach. Symbolic models express properties of architectures of systems, semantic models interpret the symbols of semantic models, and subjective models are purposely abstracted conceptions of a domain. Building on results obtained in the ArchiMate project, we illustrate how symbolic models can be integrated using an architectural language, how integrated models can be updated using the distinction between symbolic models and their visualization, and how semantic models can be integrated using a new kind of enterprise analysis called semantic analysis. We also suggest that subjective models can be integrated using techniques from natural language analysis.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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Concepts for Architectural Descriptionhttps://doc.telin.nl/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-29421/ This report describes the final version of the ArchiMate metamodel, with special attention to the background and motivation for the choice of concepts. By Henk Jonkers (ed.), Frank de Boer, Marcello Bonsangue, Rene van Buuren, Luuk Groenewegen, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Marc Lankhorst, Erik Proper, Andries Stam, Leon van der Torre & Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Enschede: Telematica Instituut, 2003-2004.- Enterprise Architecture - |
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Mark Lankhorst et al (2005)
An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation's structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language. Lankhorst and his co-authors present such an enterprise modelling language, ArchiMate, that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from 'as-is' to 'to-be', the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues. The modelling language and the other techniques presented have been proven in practice in many real-life case studies. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.
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