Introduction The Business Motivation Model (BMM™) and ArchiMate® are two powerful frameworks used in enterprise architecture to align business strategy with execution. The BMM™ provides a structured approach to defining and managing business plans, while ArchiMate® offers a visual modeling language to represent these plans in a comprehensive and standardizedRead More →

This tutorial is based on the Visual Paradigm guide “What is ArchiMate? How to Draw ArchiMate Diagram?” It explains ArchiMate fundamentals and provides step-by-step instructions for creating diagrams in Visual Paradigm, focusing on a practical example of modeling hospital patient discharge procedures from a business process viewpoint. What is ArchiMate?Read More →

The Essential Guide to ArchiMate: How It Works, Strengths, and Overcoming Challenges with AI

Introduction ArchiMate is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture (EA), developed by The Open Group. It provides a standardized way to visualize, describe, and analyze the architecture of complex systems within an organization. By aligning IT initiatives with business objectives, ArchiMate helps organizations drive better outcomes, improveRead More →

A central tenet of Enterprise Architecture is achieving business-IT alignment: ensuring that the Business, Application, and Technology Layers are coherently matched and support the organization’s purpose. ArchiMate provides specific relationships, primarily Serving and Realization, to model the links and dependencies that span these three core layers. Elements that link theseRead More →

The Power of ArchiMate Viewpoints in Enterprise Architecture

The concept of viewpoints is central to using ArchiMate effectively, as they are the primary mechanism for supporting effective and coherent communication within Enterprise Architecture (EA),. ArchiMate viewpoints define the necessary abstractions required to convey specific architectural information to diverse stakeholders,. I. Fundamentals of ArchiMate Viewpoints In the practice ofRead More →

Comprehensive Tutorial: Implementing ArchiMate for Small Businesses – A Case Study on “Coffee Around The Corner”

This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to applying ArchiMate, a standard enterprise architecture modeling language, to a small business scenario. Based on the case study of “Coffee Around The Corner,” we’ll explore how ArchiMate helps manage organizational complexity, align business activities with technology, and improve communication during change initiatives. ArchiMate,Read More →

Comprehensive Guide to ArchiMate: The Value Proposition in Detail

ArchiMate is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language developed by The Open Group. It provides a standardized way to describe, analyze, and visualize relationships among business domains in an unambiguous manner. This guide explores the value proposition of ArchiMate in detail, structured around its three key increments: asRead More →

ArchiMate 101: A Practical Introduction

ArchiMate is a standardized modeling language designed to support effective communication within the practice of Enterprise Architecture (EA),. It is often described simply as a language for Enterprise Architecture. Despite the standard’s existence for over 15 years, it is frequently perceived as hard to learn and complicated to use. ThisRead More →