| ArchiMate Business Layer Notations |
| Name |
Representation |
Defiintion * |
| Business Actor |
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A business entity that is capable of performing behavior. |
| Business Role |
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The responsibility for performing specific behavior, to which an actor can be assigned, or the part an actorplays in a particular action or event. |
| Business Collaboration |
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An aggregate of two or more business internal active structure elements that work together to perform collective behavior. |
| Business Process |
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A sequence of business behaviors that achieves a specific outcome such as a defined set of products or business services. |
| Business Function |
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A collection of business behavior based on a chosen set of criteria (typically required business resources and/or competencies), closely aligned to an organization, but not necessarily explicitly governed by the organization. |
| Business Interaction |
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A unit of collective business behavior performed by (a collaboration of) two or more business roles. |
| Business Event |
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A business behavior element that denotes an organizational state change. It may originate from and be resolved inside or outside the organization. |
| Business Service |
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An explicitly defined exposed business behavior. |
| Business Interface |
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A point of access where a business service is made available to the environment. |
| Business Object |
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A concept used within a particular business domain. |
| Product |
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A coherent collection of services and/or passive structure elements, accompanied by a contract/set of agreements, which is offered as a whole to (internal or external) customers. |
| Contract |
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A formal or informal specification of an agreement between a provider and a consumer that specifies the rights and obligations associated with a product and establishes functional and non-functional parameters for interaction. |
| Representation |
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A perceptible form of the information carried by a business object. |
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| ArchiMate 3 – Business Layer Notations |
ArchiMate Notation: Part 1 – Business Layer
ArchiMate Notation: Part 2 – Application Layer
ArchiMate Notation: Part 3 – Technology Layer
ArchiMate Notation: Part 4 – Technology Layer
ArchiMate Notation: Part 5 – Strategy Layer
ArchiMate Notation: Part 6 – Motivation Extension
ArchiMate Notation: Part 7 – Implementation & Migration Extension
ArchiMate Notation: Part 8 – Relationships
