A (concluding) piece about the licensing issues surrounding ArchiMate has been published over on Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. Published there, because it is not so much about ArchiMate modelling or the language, but about legal issues and…
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ArchiMate 3.0: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
On June 14, the 3.0 version of the ArchiMate standard was unveiled during the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2016. Time for a review. I’ve divided it up in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, with The Good standing for changes…
Process Modelling in ArchiMate in BiZZdesign Architect
A short while ago I wrote about using ArchiMate to model processes instead of the (agreed, vastly superiour) BPMN language. What I did was change the visuals on ArchiMate elements to support this and I also did a few things…
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Is ArchiMate® and Open Standard? Not really.
A short post, because it is only here to point you to the real story over on enterprisechess.com. The reason it's been published there is that it is not so much about the language itself and how to model in…
Is ArchiMate® an Open Standard? Not really.
ArchiMate, the enterprise architecture modelling language, is a standard from The Open Group (TOG). Most people infer from this that ArchiMate is an open standard (I did once) and often assume The Open Group is some sort of a not-for-profit…
Modelling processes in ArchiMate
ArchiMate is not a process modelling language. It has only limited support for process modelling. That is why I personally prefer to combine BPMN with ArchiMate, but that is not trivial (as explained here and here). In the book there…
Open Letter to TOG #7
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
Open Letter to TOG #6
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
Modeling Virtual Data
Enough discussing proposed fixes and improvements for ArchiMate (here, here, here, here and here). Time for a 'normal' modelling post. This time about the concept of virtual data. Most of you will know what a virtual machine is, so what…
Cyber Monday 2015 Deal
As I was too late to set up a really good Black Friday deal, I've decided to create a Cyber Monday deal (the books are about the world as it has changed thanks to 'cyber' after all, and besides the…
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