Using ArchiMate – EA Voices

10 days ago

ArchiMate 3.0.1

The Open Group has just released its ‘Technical Corrigendum No. 1’ (TC1) for ArchiMate 3.0 from June 2016. TC1. It is a substantial improvement over 3.0 even if it is just a minor version upgrade. Part of the change is … Continue reading →

3 months, 16 days ago

How does the API-economy differ from the SOA approach of the past? An ArchiMate answer.

by Gerben Wierda

These days, there is a lot of talk about the ‘API Economy’: a world filled with systems providing services to other systems using (above all RESTful) services. It would be easy to miss the fact that this isn’t new at … Continue reading →

10 months, 12 days ago

Who’s in Charge? (Layers? What Layers! — 2)

by Gerben Wierda

ArchiMate 3, at first glance, looks like a very orthodox IT-oriented enterprise architecture modeling langage. It can show how the business is supported (‘service-oriented’) by applications which are supported (‘service-oriented’) by infrastructure. This has been the Core of ArchiMate’s view … Continue reading →

11 months, 10 days ago

ArchiMate 3.0 metamodel PDF

by Gerben Wierda

I’ve created a PDF that you can print two sided (and laminate if you like) to have easy access to the ArchiMate 3 metamodel.On the front it contains the Core meta-model. It is depicted in the Mastering ArchiMate colour scheme (this … Continue reading →

1 year, 4 months ago

Modelling processes in ArchiMate

by Gerben Wierda

ArchiMate is not a process modelling language. It has only limited support for process modelling. That is why I personally prefer to combine BPMN with ArchiMate, but that is not trivial (as explained here and here). In the book there … Continue reading →

1 year, 7 months ago

Modeling Virtual Data

by Gerben Wierda

Enough discussing proposed fixes and improvements for ArchiMate (here, here, here, here and here). Time for a ‘normal’ modelling post. This time about the concept of virtual data. Most of you will know what a virtual machine is, so what … Continue reading →

1 year, 10 months ago

Modelling a rich business service (What was wrong with that picture?)

by Gerben Wierda

In the post What is wrong with this picture? I showed a pattern devised by an enterprise architect to model the standard services they want to provide to customers. The idea of such a service is that is is largely some sort of … Continue reading →

1 year, 10 months ago

What is wrong with this picture?

by Gerben Wierda

It is time for another one in the “What’s wrong with this picture?” series. This time, I might maybe better have called it “What is not wrong with this picture?”. Here is the story. A company I know has started … Continue reading →

1 year, 11 months ago

Open Letter to TOG #2

by Gerben Wierda

Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few … Continue reading →

2 years, 2 months ago

What is wrong with this #ArchiMate picture?

by Gerben Wierda

A short one today. I have a view taken from a certain book. The view contains an error, can you spot it? And when you have spotted it, go to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and can you tell me what … Continue reading →

2 years, 2 months ago

Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns (2)

by Gerben Wierda

In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of … Continue reading →

2 years, 3 months ago

Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns

by Gerben Wierda

A while back, I wrote the post Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances), which was a first post on modelling detailed infrastructure landscapes. Assuming you’re with me that a modelling language is very useful for large complex situations, but doesn’t … Continue reading →