Informational Concepts are passive entities which provide a way to link the operational side of an organization to its business goals and the products (through behavior entities) that it offers to its customers. In the Metamodel above, you can see…
A behavior element is defined as a unit of activity performed by one or more active structure elements. The active structure concepts are assigned to behavioral concepts, to show who or what performs the behavior as shown in the metamodel below: Internal…
The structure aspect at the business layer refers to the static structure of an organization, in terms of the entities that make up the organization and their relationships. Two types of entities are distinguished: Activity and passive entities Active Entity…
This layer includes a number of additional informational concepts which are relevant in the business domain: a product and associated contract, the meaning of business objects, and the value of products and business services. The Figure shows the metamodel of…
The purpose of the motivation extension is to model the motivation behind the core elements in some enterprise architecture. Therefore, it should be possible to relate motivational elements to core elements as shown in Figure below: Meaning and value can be…
The metamodels and examples from show the different types of relationships that can be used: between two motivational elements between one motivational element and one core element. The Table below provides a description of these relationships: Intentional Relationships Notation Association…
As mentioned in Part I, the metamodel of motivational is an extension in ArchiMate as shown in the Figure below that includes two kind of motivational concepts: 1) Source of Intentions 2) Motivation There are four motivation elements: 1) Goal, 2) Principle, 3) Requirement,…
As mentioned in Part I, the metamodel of motivational is an extension in ArchiMate as shown in the Figure below that includes two kind of motivational concepts: 1) Source of Intentions 2) Motivation Source of Intentions: 1) Stakeholder, 2) Driver…
Enterprise Architecture is about responding to change and clearly describe how the effects of the change affect the Enterprise Architecture. The source of intention, such as drivers or stakeholders can be either External – such as changing mobile and web…
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…
