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A Customer Journey Map is a useful way to graphically represent the customer experience of an organization. It focuses on the touchpoints that characterize the customers’ interaction with the services of the organization and helps you to optimize this experience.
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 →
As we stated in the introduction to this blog series, ArchiMate models can usefully be combined with models in other techniques, in order to zoom in on specific aspects of your enterprise. If these models are tied in to an overall enterprise architectu…
As we explained in the first blog of this series , the ArchiMate language is not intended to replace other standards and modeling approaches. For many domains, there are languages and techniques available that provide more detailed descriptions.
As we have described in our previous blog , the ArchiMate language is not intended to replace other standards and modeling approaches, but rather to connect them. In this blog, we will focus on relating ArchiMate to several management-oriented techniqu…
The ArchiMate language is not intended to replace other standards and modeling approaches. For many domains, there are languages and techniques available that provide more detailed descriptions. Those languages, such as UML, BPMN and others, have a nar…
In our previous blog, we outlined some of the most important changes in relationships in ArchiMate 3.0. But there is more… This blog will discuss changes relating to the Grouping and Junction concepts.
In our previous blogs, we have mainly focused on the new layers and elements of the ArchiMate 3.0 language. Although these concepts are the first changes that catch the eye in ArchiMate 3.0, there are also several improvements in the use of relationshi…
By Iver Band, Enterprise Architect, Cambia Health Solutions and Vice Chair, The Open Group ArchiMate Forum An Interview with Jan van Gijsen of VIVAT Jan is a Senior IT Architect at VIVAT NV, a Netherlands-based insurer and asset manager. VIVAT has six … Continue reading →
Gerben Wierda, our On Slippery Ice columnist, author of the…
A (concluding) piece about the licensing issues surrounding ArchiMate has been published over on Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. Published there, because it is not so much about ArchiMate modelling or the language, but about legal issues and … Continue reading →
With the release of ArchiMate 3, The Open Group has changed the text of the license as well as their explanation. What has changed, and what does it mean? (Note, as this is not about modelling with ArchiMate but about … Continue reading →