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Organisations need to adapt increasingly fast to changing customer requirements and business goals. This need influences the entire chain of activities of a business, from the organisational structure to the network infrastructure. How can you control the impact of these changes? Architecture may be an essential part of the answer. The ArchiMate project will develop an integrated architectural approach that describes and visualises the different domains and their relations. Using these integrated architectures helps stakeholders in assessing the impact of design choices and changes.
Architecture is a consistent whole of principles, methods and models that are used in the design and realisation of organisational structure, business processes, information systems, and infrastructure. However, these domains are not approached in an integrated way, which makes it difficult to judge the effects of proposed changes. Every domain speaks its own language, draws its own models, and uses its own techniques and tools. Communication and decision making across domains is seriously impaired.
The goal of the ArchiMate language is to provide this integration. ArchiMate is visual design language with adequate concepts for specifying interrelated architectures, and specific viewpoints for selected stakeholders.
ArchiMate was developed by a broad consortium from industry and academia, comprising ABN AMRO, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst), Telematica Instituut, Ordina, the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), and Radboud University Nijmegen. ArchiMate is now hosted by the ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group.