ArchiMate covers the standard three layers of enterprise architecture: business (products, business processes, business functions, business objects, roles, actors, etc.), application (application components, application functions, application services, data objects, etc.) and infrastructure (devices, nodes, networks, infrastructure services, artifacts), the infrastructure…
Category: Using ArchiMate
Modeling Web Browser Use
In a previous post, I wrote about modeling spreadsheets. In it, I described two methods of modeling these. I settled on modeling the Excel application not as an Application Component, but as an Infrastructure Service. That post laid the ground…
Business Process versus Business Function
A rather tricky part of ArchiMate is the difference between Business Process and Business Function. Both stand for behaviour at the Business Level. Both generally encapsulate in the end the same activities. Choosing between a Business Function and a Business…
Modeling Spreadsheet Use
There sits your user, happily typing away in his spreadsheet. A rather large spreadsheet it is, full of complicated macros and code. Our user is a spreadsheet wizard, using a plugin from a remote data service and a lot of…
On the Use of Colours in ArchiMate
The official ArchiMate 1.0 spec is colourless. The original ArchiMate project of Telin (Telematica Instituut) used colours, though they were never a part of the spec, they were a more something of a custom. Two different schemes using the original…
Modelling IT in Your Organization, a Broader Perspective
As Enterprise Architects, we model the use of IT in an organization and ArchiMate is a decent language for that. ArchiMate, with its business layer, application layer and technical layer helps us to model the different aspects of that use.…
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