Archimate2.0 specification

ArchiMate®, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and con... » 

ArchiMate®, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. ArchiMate provides instruments to enable enterprise architects to describe, analyze, and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. This Pocket Guide is based on ArchiMate® 2.0. It gives a concise introduction to ArchiMate. What's more, it's authoritative with material derived from the official ArchiMate documentation.

Topics covered include:
A high-level introduction to ArchiMate and its relationship to Enterprise Architecture
The Business Layer, which includes the modeling concepts relevant in the business domain
The Application Layer, which includes modeling concepts relevant for software applications
The Technology Layer, which includes modeling concepts relevant for system software applications and infrastructure
The relationships that the ArchiMate language includes to model the links between elements, and also the relationships to model the cross-layer dependencies
The Motivation Extension
The Implementation and Migration Extension
The ArchiMate framework for defining and classifying ArchiMate viewpoints, including a summary of all the viewpoints in the ArchiMate 2.0 Standard
The ArchiSurance Case Study, a fictitious example developed to illustrate use of the Modeling language in the context of the TOGAF Framework
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