ArchiMate® 4 Specification – A Pocket Guide

This is the official Pocket Guide for the ArchiMate® 4 Specification - your essential quick reference for the ArchiMate modeling language. It provides a condensed reference to the modeling language in a portable format. What’s more, it’s authoritative, with material derived from The Open Group ArchiMate documentation.

The ArchiMate 4 Specification, a standard of The Open Group, defines an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. It provides a notation to enable Enterprise Architects to describe, analyze, and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. Version 4 represents a substantial evolution of the standard, including housekeeping to clean up and streamline the standard to improve its ease of adoption and use.

The audience for this document is: Enterprise Architects, Business Architects, IT architects, Data Architects, system architects, solutions architects, and senior managers seeking a first introduction to the ArchiMate modeling language.
A prior knowledge of Enterprise Architecture is advantageous but not required.

Topics covered include:

• A high-level introduction to the ArchiMate Specification, its relationship to Enterprise Architecture, and an overview of the changes in Version 4 of the specification
• The structure of the ArchiMate modeling language, including the top-level structure, aspects, domains, the ArchiMate core language, and the ArchiMate full language
• The structure of the common, generic ArchiMate elements
• The relationships in the language
• The concepts for expressing the motivation for an architecture
• Elements for modeling the enterprise at a strategic level
• The definition and usage of the Business Domain elements
• The definition and usage of the Application Domain elements
• The definition and usage of the Technology Domain elements
• The relationships between different domains of the language
• The language elements for expressing the implementation and migration aspects of an architecture
• The ArchiMate viewpoint mechanism, and the example viewpoints provided with the standard
• A language notation summary