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A while back, I wrote in the blog post ArchiMate is overrated (and underrated) that using ArchiMate doesn’t really have that much added value for communicating simple, high-level views to stakeholders (users, management), but its structure does bring advantages that enables us to … Continue reading →
In this post we continue to describe examples for ArchiMate modeling using a top-down modeling strategy. In the previous posting we presented some examples from the business architecture domain, in this posting we will cover three example…
This is not your usual architecture book as its title suggests it is about modelling using the ArchiMate notation. The author doesn’t promote any particular tool and concentrates on the notation, which recently underwent a major revision. Whether you are new to ArchiMate or have been using it for some time I think you’ll find […]
In the previous posting we explained two strategies for getting started with ArchiMate modeling: top-down and bottom-up. Over-simplifying, we suggested to use “inventory style” models (to catalog the ‘things we have / do’) and then figuring out the relations between them. There’s usually a lot of information that can be (re)used. Also, the ideal approach is using a workshop setting.
By William Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, Serge Thorn, Associate, Metaplexity Associates LLC, and Sonia Gonzalez, Architecture and ArchiMate® Forums Director, The Open Group If you are using the TOGAF® standard in your organization to guide the process of developing … Continue reading →
So I got my ArchiMate® certification… now what? Does that sound familiar at all? We see a lot of organizations and professionals struggle with the questions on how to get started with their enterprise architecture models. This makes sense: there’s an overwhelming amount of practical guidance (often piecemeal, though) available online, the pressure might be on (there is a lot of places where we expect ArchiMate models to add value) and the company has just invested in training and tooling (Check out our flagship tool, BiZZdesign Architect).
We are continuing our series on ArchiMate: from theory to practice! We introduced the series back in October and over the last few months we ran the first part which we called “The ArchiMate Files”. In this first part we covered some theoretic underpinnings of the ArchiMate standard, and in this second series we will cover practical aspects of modeling with ArchiMate. This is illustrated in the updated diagram below:
In enterprise-architecture, how should you describe or model ‘self-service’ – in which the customer, rather than the organisation’s employee, uses the organisation’s systems to place an order, or search for information? The classic way of looking at this is from…
I wrote a post on Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture about ways to look at self-service from an architectural perspective: “I, Robot” – there is no such thing as ‘Customer Self-Service’. In it, I argue that saying that … Continue reading →
TOGAF and ArchiMate are two standards managed by The Open Group and are adopted by more than 80% of the world’s leading enterprises. Our poster explains how these two can be used together to support your Enterprise Architecture work. Click here to view this resource.
Recently, in a discussion in the ArchiMate LinkedIn Group, Tarun Godhwani started a discussion on modelling the triggers and tables of a database. Of course, one can wonder if it is useful to model these, but in case they are, the … Continue reading →
The EU has instigated new sales tax rules which force people selling in the EU to charge the sales tax of the country where the buyer is located. This is a rule designed to fight tax evasion by large companies. … Continue reading →