Exploring ArchiMate

ArchiMate is an architectural modeling technique aimed at analyzing and documenting enterprise architectures. This means that, while still having roots in technology and software, it's usually adopted in projects with a broader scope, such as documenting the whole enterprise technology landscape (also known as enterprise architecture) and modeling the business processes implemented by the underlying technology implementation.

ArchiMate's name is a merging of architecture and animate, implying that one goal of this framework is to display the enterprise architecture in an intuitive way. ArchiMate was created in the early 2000s in the Netherlands, the result of a concerted effort from players in the government, industry, and academic sectors. Soon after the first drafts of this standard, the governance was transferred to The Open Group, an industry consortium regulating many other IT standards, such as The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF, which...