Posts by: Bas van Gils

Modeling portals, services, and widgets using ArchiMate®

The SOA-paradigm has gained wide spread adoption over the last few years. With good reason: it has long been recognized that decoupling application logic from the specific way/ place where it is implemented has numerous benefits. In the same vain: portals and…

• September 3, 2012
• Bas van Gils

Whitepaper: Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF 9.1 and ArchiMate 2.0

With the appearance of Version 2.0, the ArchiMate standard for enterprise architecture modeling now offers full modeling support throughout the architecture development cycle. It allows for the description and visualization of different architecture domains and their relationships, as well as the motivation…

• June 14, 2012
• Bas van Gils

Using “back of the napkin” with TOGAF and ArchiMate

This post is a crosspost from: http://www.strategic-architecture.blogspot.com Having recently read all of Dan Roam’s books (Back of the napkin, Unfolding the napkin, and Blah Blah Blah) I started drawing stuff whenever I could. I’m not naturally gifted at drawing (my kids tend…

• February 15, 2012
• Bas van Gils

ArchiMate® 2.0: The Future of Enterprise Architecture Modeling has arrived!

  Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline that creates value for organizations by answering the question “how should we organize ourselves?"The art of modeling plays an important role in this discipline, both to get insight in the current organization and to visualize…

• February 1, 2012
• Bas van Gils