ArchiMateArchiMate

of Architectures

Rene van Buuren

and AnalysisIntegration, Visualisation

The ArchiMate projectThe ArchiMate project

• 2½ years, July 2002 - December 2004

• approx. 35 man-years, 4 million euro

• Consortium of companies and knowledge institutes

• Telematica Instituut leads the project

• Ideas also originated from Ordina

• ABN AMRO, Belastingdienst, ABP

• KU Nijmegen, CWI, Universiteit Leiden

Analysis

ArchiMate focusArchiMate focus

Integration

Visualisation

IntegrationIntegration

An architecture might encompass for example:

• products

• organisation

• business processes

• applications

• systems

This requires concepts for domains and relations, linked with existing techniques

Enterprise architecture: describing coherenceEnterprise architecture: describing coherence

Process architecture

Application architecture Technical architecture

Information architecture Product architecture

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ArchiMate as an “umbrella”ArchiMate as an “umbrella”

Company-specific

languages

Standards

ArchiMatelanguage

Domains and layersDomains and layers

Processdomain

Informationdomain

Datadomain

Business

Application

Technology

Environment

Passivestructure

Behaviour Activestructure

Productdomain

Organisationdomain

Technical infrastructure domain

Application domain

Generic metamodelGeneric metamodel

Internal

External

ActorRole

Object

Service Interface

Process/function

Representation

Meaning Value

Passivestructure

Behaviour Activestructure

Business conceptsBusiness concepts

ActorRole

Business object

Value

Organisational service

Event

Organisationalinterface

Business process/function

Contract

Product

B

A

T

I B S

Application conceptsApplication concepts

Application component

Application function

Application service

Application interface

Data object

B

A

T

I B S

Technology conceptsTechnology concepts

Artifact

Infrastructure interface

Infrastructure service

Node

DeviceSystemsoftware

Network

Communicationpath

B

A

T

I B S

Relations between layersRelations between layers

ActorRole

Application component

Application function

Business object

Artifact

Value

Application service

Application interface

Infrastructure interface

Infrastructure service

Node

DeviceSystemsoftware

Network

Organisational service

Event

Organisationalinterface

Business process/function

Business

Application

Application

Infrastructure

Data object

Contract

Product

Communicationpath

Representation

ExamplesExamples

LayeredarchitectureLayeredarchitecture

Infrastructure

External infrastructure services

Application components and services

Roles and actors

External application services

External business services

Damage claiming process

Client Insurant InsurerArchiSurance

Registration PaymentValuationAcceptance

Customerinformation

service

Claimspaymentservice

Customeradministration

service

Paymentservice

CRM system

Financial application

Customerinformation

service

Claimregistration

service

Claimregistration

service

Claimsadministration

service

Policy administration

Claimfiles

service

zSeries mainframe

DB2database

Financialapplication

EJBs

Customerfiles

service

Sun Blade

iPlanetapp server

Claiminformation

service

Business layer

Applicatie layer

Technology layer