What is Architecture?

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Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures including enterprise or software architectures.

Architecture
“Architecture descriptions are formal descriptions of a system, organized in a way that supports
 reasoning about the structural and behavioral properties of the system and its evolution. They define
 the components or building blocks that make up the overall system, and provide a plan from which
 products can be procured, and subsystems developed, that will work together to implement the
 overall system. It thus enables you to manage your overall IT investment in a way that meets the
 needs of your business.”
Mission
To provide a specialised modelling notation for Enterprise Architecture
Addresses the main architectural layers
Philosophy is to remain simple, high-level / conceptual and small
Architecting complex systems is a critical task. The description of systems (its architecture) is needed
 in order to provide maximum support to the Enterprise.
Before ArchiMate, the tools available either present UML or other modeling options. They may be
 capable of architecting systems, but they have not been designed with that specific purpose in mind.
ArchiMate fills this gap. It is designed to address the key areas of architecture (Business, Applications
 and Technology), with just sufficient capabilities to describe the architecture at a high-level. Other
 designers / engineers can then take over with the detailed design.

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Architecture

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