ArchiMate Language Principles
Objectives
Understand the principles and core concepts:
Underlying ideas
ArchiMate and its relationships
ArchiMate Framework
Motivation Extension
Implementation and Migration Extension
Underlying Ideas
The need to describe the architecture of IS/IT systems is fundamental to the governance of an organisation. But there are several hurdles that must be overcome.
Firstly, decisions need to be made as to the way these systems, which are likely to be very complicated in larger organisations, are described. A general approach is to think of the “entities”
which the system consists of, and the way they relate to each other. Inevitable as these entities are considered, the need to look at them in more specialised ways (i.e. business process view; software application view) becomes apparent. Architecture focuses on the highest level of detail.
Secondly, it is important to establish some formality to the way the architecture is described. EA does not need to be as detailed, for instance, as Business Process Modelling, and therefore does not need such a complexity of symbols.
Mission
To provide a “small” yet comprehensive modelling language
Addresses the needs of Enterprise architecture
Aimed purely at architects
Covers the main Architecture domains
ArchiMate has addressed both these issues by being relatively general, and by focusing on the main areas of importance to architects – Business, Application and Technology.
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