Using ArchiMate Tool with TOGAF ADM

Using ArchiMate Tool with TOGAF ADM

8-10 minutes

ArchiMate is an international, vendor-independent standard frameworks introduced by The Open Group . Its well-founded concepts and models provide precision. ArchiMate helps you get away from the ‘fuzzy pictures’ image of architecture. It is a lean and simple language. It contains just enough concepts for modeling enterprise architecture and is not bloated to include everything possible. Its uniform structure makes it easy to learn and apply. Here is the benefit for adopting ArchiMate for your enterprise architecture development projects:

• Compatibility with Other Open Standards – It has clear links to existing approaches for specific architecture areas such as software or business processes.
• Several concepts in ArchiMate have deliberately been borrowed from other languages such as UML or BPMN , to provide an easy bridge.
• Supported by TOGAF ADM Method – It does not prescribe a way of working, but it is easily combined with existing methods such as TOGAF .
• Widely-used with Tool Supports – It has been tried and tested by many different user organizations and is supported by consultancies and software tools.

Visual Paradigm Enterprise Edition is a certified ArchiMate 3.1 enterprise architecture tool. It supports all ArcihMate 3 vocabulary, notation, syntax, and semantics.

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Modeling EA – Hand-drawn, drawing tool or Modeling Tool?

Actually not very long ago, modeling EA was symbolized by three things: a pencil, a sheet of paper and a notations. However time marches on and technology evolves. Everything seems to be moving towards going digital. But are you ready to make the jump?

Drawing Tool

Drawing tool offers speed and momentum to their software modeling work. Used efficiently, digital saves you a ton of time such as nice printing, easier for undo and redo, copy and paste, using shape palette or diagram templates, and etc.

Modeling Tool

Many people assume that drawing tools and modeling tools are two interchangeable concepts but this is far from true. Actually a modeling tool should offer a lot more capabilities additional to a drawing tool through they might seem not so obvious for most of the people.

A drawing tool can’t be considered as a modeling tool, unless the tool can “understands” the notation of the diagram, i.e. the connection rules between shapes or model elements. The following points list these additional capabilities of a modeling tool over a drawing tool.