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Enterprise Architecture Views and

Viewpoints in ArchiMate - Reference
Source: ArchiMate 2.0 Specification, chapter 8, http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate2-doc/chap08.html
 Examples of Stakeholders and Concerns
The following examples of stakeholders and concerns are mentioned in the
ArchiMate specification as a basis for the specification of viewpoints:
End Users
♦ What are the consequences for his workplace?
Architect
♦ What is the consequence for the maintainability of a system?
Upper-level Management
♦ How can we ensure that our policies are followed in the development and
operation of processes and systems?
Operational Manager – responsible for exploitation or maintenance
♦ Is there a need to adapt maintenance processes?
Project Manager – responsible for development of new applications
♦ What is the dependence of business processes on the applications to be built?
Developer
♦ What are the required modification with respect to the current situation?
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 Two-Dimensional Classification of Enterprise
Architecture Viewpoints

Purpose Dimension
Content Dimension
■ Designing
■ Details:
♦ support design process from
initial sketch to detailed design ♦ one layer and one aspect

■ Deciding: ■ Coherence:
♦ offering insight into cross-domain ♦ multiple layers or multiple aspects
architecture relations ♦ focus on architecture relations
between layers or aspects
■ Informing:
♦ achieve understanding, obtain ■ Overview:
commitment, convince ♦ both multiple layers and aspects
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 Views and Viewpoints in ArchiMate

■ In ArchiMate, architects and other stakeholders can define

their own views on the enterprise architecture
■ A viewpoint in ArchiMate is a selection of
♦ a relevant subset of the ArchiMate concepts and their
relationships
♦ For each viewpoint one model kind exists
■ A view is (a set of) models
♦ representing a part of an architecture
♦ using the concepts and relationships of the corresponding
viewpoint

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 Viewpoints in ArchiMate

These viewpoints are suggested in ArchiMate based on experience:

1. Introductory Viewpoint 10. Application Structure Viewpoint

2. Organization Viewpoint 11. Application Usage Viewpoint
3. Actor Co-operation Viewpoint 12. Infrastructure Viewpoint
4. Business Function Viewpoint 13. Infrastructure Usage Viewpoint
5. Business Process Viewpoint 14. Implementation and Deployment
6. Business Process Co-operation Viewpoint
Viewpoint 15. Information Structure Viewpoint
7. Product Viewpoint 16. Service Realization Viewpoint
8. Application Behavior Viewpoint 17. Layered Viewpoint
9. Application Co-operation 18. Landscape Map Viewpoint
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 Introductory Viewpoint

A subset of the full ArchiMate language using a simplified notation. Typically used
at the start of a design trajectory, when not everything needs to be detailed or to
avoid the impression that the architectural design is already fixed.

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 Example of a Model from the Introductory
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 Organization Viewpoint
■ (Internal) organization of a company, a department, a network of companies.
Could be modeled as nested diagrams or as organizational charts.
■ Useful in identifying competencies, authority, and repsonsibilities

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 Example of a Model from the Organization
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 Actor Co-operation Viewpoint
■ Extending the Organization Viewpoint with a focus on the relations of actors with each
other and their environment
■ Useful in determining external dependencies and collaborations; shows the value chain
or network in which the actor operates.
■ Can show how a number of co-operating business actors and/or application components
together realize a business process

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 Example of a Model from the Actor Co-operation
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 Business Function Viewpoint
■ Shows the main business functions of an organisation and their relations in terms of flow
of information, value or goods between them.

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 Example of a Model from the Business Function
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 Business Process Viewpoint
Structure and composition of one or more business processes and directly related
concepts like products, roles, and information

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 Example of a Model from the Business Process
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 Business Process Co-operation Viewpoint
Relations of one or more business processes with each other and/or the
environment.

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 Example of a Model from the Business Process
Co-operation Viewpoint

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 Product Viewpoint

Composition of products, the associated contract(s) or agreements, and the

products’ value to customers and other external parties..

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 Example of a Model from the Product Viewpoint

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 Application Behavior Viewpoint
Internal behavior of an application, e.g. as it realizes one or more services

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 Example of a Model from the Application
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 Application Cooperation Viewpoint
Relations between applications components in terms of the information flows
between them, or in terms of the services they offer and use.

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 Example of a Model from the Application
Co-operation Viewpoint
Relations between applications components in terms of the information flows
between them, or in terms of the services they offer and use.

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 Application Structure Viewpoint
Structure of one or more applications or components. This viewpoint is useful in
designing or understanding the main structure of applications or components and
the associated data

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 Example of a Model from the Application
Structure Viewpoint

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 Application Usage Viewpoint
Describes how applications are used to support one or more business processes,
and how they are used by other applications

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 Example of a Model from the Application Usage
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 Infrastructure Viewpoint
Software and hardware infrastructure elements supporting the application layer,
such as physical devices, networks, or system software (e.g., operating systems,
databases, and middleware).

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 Example of a Model from the Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure Usage Viewpoint
How applications are supported by the software and hardware infrastructure: the
infrastructure services are delivered by the devices; system software and
networks are provided to the applications

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 Example of a Model from the Infrastructure
Usage Viewpoint

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 Implementation and Deployment Viewpoint
How one or more applications are realized on the infrastructure. This comprises
the mapping of (logical) applications onto (physical) artifacts, such as Enterprise
Java Beans, and the mapping of the information used by these applications onto
the underlying storage infrastructure; e.g., database tables or other files.

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 Example of a Model from the Implementation
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 Information Structure Viewpoint
It shows the structure of the information used in the enterprise or in a specific
business process or application, in terms of data types or (object-oriented) class
structures. It is comparable to the traditional information models created in the
development of almost any information system.

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 Example of a Model from the Information
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 Service Realization Viewpoint
How one or more business services are realized by the underlying processes (and
sometimes by application components). Thus, it forms the bridge between the
business products viewpoint and the business process view.

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 Example of a Model from the Service
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 Layered Viewpoint
The Layered viewpoint pictures several layers and aspects of an enterprise
architecture in one diagram.
The layers are the result of the use of the “grouping” relation for a natural partitioning
of the entire set of objects and relations that belong to a model.
Each dedicated layer exposes, by means of the “realization” relation a layer of
services, which are further on “used by” the next dedicated layer.

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 Example of a Model from
the Layered Viewpoint

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 Landscape Map Viewpoint
A landscape map is a matrix that represents a three-dimensional coordinate
system that represents architectural relations. In practice, often dimensions are
chosen from different architectural domains; for instance, business functions,
application components, and products. A landscape map uses the ArchiMate
concepts, but not the standard notation of these concepts..

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 Example of a Model from the Landscape Map
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