Motivational concepts are used to model the motivations, or reasons, that underlie the design or change of some enterprise architecture. These motivations influence, guide, and constrain the design. The metamodel of motivational is an extension in ArchiMate as shown in the Figure below that includes two kind of motivational concepts: SourceRead More →
Behavior Concepts Behavior elements in the Technology Layer are similar to the behavior elements in the other layers. A distinction is made between the external behavior of nodes in terms of technology services, and the internal behavior of these nodes; i.e., technology functions that realize these services. Technology Function ConceptRead More →
Active Structure Element The main active structure element for the Technology Layer is the node. This element is used to model structural entities in this layer which as the following characteristics: It is used to model application servers, database servers, or client workstations. It is often a combination of aRead More →
Technology Layer The Technology Layer depicts technology services such as processing, storage, and communication services needed to run the applications, and the computer and communication hardware and system software that realize those services. Physical elements are added for modeling physical equipment, materials, and distribution networks to this layer. Metamodel TheRead More →
Aspects and Layers in ArchiMate Core Framework The active structure aspect represents the structural concepts (the business actors, application components, and devices that display actual behavior; i.e., the “subjects” of activity). The behavior aspect represents the behavior (processes, functions, events, and services) performed by the actors. Behavioral concepts are assignedRead More →
A key challenge in the development of Enterprise Architecture is to strike a balance between the specificity of languages for: Individual architecture domains A very general set of architecture concepts (Business, Application and Technology) A set of inter-related entities that can reflects a view of systems The ArchiMate Core FraemworkRead More →
This article explain how using ArchiMate with TOGAF ADM which both them are maintained by the Open Group. How well do they complement each other in making the life of an enterprise architect easier. TOGAF ADM splits enterprise architecture into different domains into layers (i.e. the core layers of ADM:Read More →
ArchiMate is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language to support the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains in an unambiguous way. ArchiMate offers a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. This insight helps stakeholders to design,Read More →