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Archi – Archimate Enterprise Architecture Modelling Tool

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Archimate is an exciting modelling tool for Enterprise Architects. It’s a free, Open Source, multi-platform modelling tool based on Eclipse.

It is eextremely easy to install and use, it particularly useful to rapidly prototype a model when needed.

Most prominent features:

  • Free and Open Source!
  • Multi platform
  • Easy to install and use
  • Full support for Archimate 1.0 (Concepts, relationships, templates, definitions, etc.) (and 2.0 to be added very soon)
  • Export and Import features
  • Easy PDF, Word, etc. reporting with the help Jasper Reports
  • Customizable formatting
  • Dynamic Viewpoints
  • Freeform modelling
  • And lots lots more …

The project is also well and alive with frequent releases and features to come are highly promising (adding CDO for multi-user capability with locks, etc.)

So a huge thanks and applause to the contributors!! And visit their website and try out their software at :

http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/index.html

Edit(20/02/2012): Archi 2.2 released wth support for Archimate 2.0.

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ArchiMate Support in System Architect

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We at Corso are seeing many EA practitioners gravitating to the ArchiMate framework as the tool for delivering Enterprise Architecture.  Why is this?  Unlike many frameworks to date that do not specify how model views are represented, ArchiMate provides a clear notation and language for the communication of EA.  The ArchiMate framework is currently at version […]

Unravelling the anatomy of Archimate

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The Archimate notation aims to be the standard to be used by everyone in enterprise-architecture and related fields. But what exactly is its anatomy – its underlying structure? And if it’s aimed at enterprise-architecture, what is it about that structure that makes it seem only to support IT-architecture, and in such an awkwardly IT-centric way?
(Apologies, folks, […]

Business Model Canvas to Archimate (the short version)

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The previous post, ‘From business model to enterprise-architecture‘, turned out to be another of my monster essays. Sorry…
The detail’s there if you need it, but if you just want to do the translation from Business Model Canvas to Archimate, without worrying too much about the ‘Why’ behind it, here’s the short version.
Step 1: […]

Is Archimate too IT-centric for enterprise-architecture?

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Archimate aims to be the standard notation for enterprise-architectures. But has it become too IT-centric to be usable for that purpose? And is there any way we can get it to break out of the IT-centric box?
These questions came up for me whilst exploring the architectural processes we could use in expanding a business-model developed […]

Archimate::Business actor <= Togaf::Organization unit

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Yes, the Business actor concept in Archimate do make sense in conjunction with the organization unit concept in Togaf. At least the Archimate concept covers the Togaf concept good enough to make it usable. The match is to be found in how Archimate uses “departments” and “business units” as examples. Archimate TOGAF Business actor Organization […]