Introduction to ArchiMate Viewpoints The viewpoint mechanism in ArchiMate is a structured approach for creating tailored views of the enterprise architecture for different stakeholders and their specific concerns. This mechanism recognizes that presenting the entire architecture description at once is impractical and overwhelming for stakeholders who are only interested inRead More →

This Case Study demonstrates the value of the ArchiMate® 3.0 modeling language for planning and expressing complex business transformation. The Case Study is about a fictitious manufacturer named ArchiMetal. Through high-level architecture modeling, the ArchiMate language illuminates the coherence between an organization, and its processes, applications, and technology. This CaseRead More →

The ArchiMate tool supports all the graphical notations you need to model businesses, information systems and physical technology architectures, and their inter-relationships. ArchiMate 3.0 also supports modeling organization’s strategies, the drivers of architecture development and plans for the implementation and migration of architecture. (Visit Visual Paradigm Community Circle)  Read More →

ArchiMate presents different viewpoints according to certain criteria. Using the standard viewpoints in ArchiMate 2.0, architects can develop viewpoints based on stakeholders, concerns, purpose, abstraction level, layer, and aspects (i.e., behavior, information, and structure). The architects get feedback from stakeholders and architecture teams to craft a viewpoint relevant to each group.Read More →