ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification. The Open Group

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This Document

This document is the ArchiMate^® 3.1 Specification, a standard of The Open Group. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group.

This edition of the standard includes a number of corrections, clarifications, and improvements to the previous edition, as well as several additions.

Intended Audience

The intended audience of this standard is threefold:

• All those working to shape and implement complex organization change

Typical job titles include Enterprise Architecture practitioners, Business Architects, IT architects, application architects, data architects, information architects, process architects, infrastructure architects, software architects, systems architects, solutions architects, product/service managers, senior and operational management, project leaders, and anyone working within the reference framework defined by an Enterprise Architecture.

• Those who intend to implement the ArchiMate language in a software tool

They will find a complete and detailed description of the language in this document.

• The academic community, on which we rely for amending and improving the language based on state-of-the-art research in the architecture field

Structure

The structure of this standard is as follows:

• Chapter 1, Introduction, provides the introduction to this standard, including the objectives, a brief overview, conformance requirements, and terminology

• Chapter 2, Definitions, defines the general terms used in this standard

• Chapter 3, Language Structure, describes the structure of the ArchiMate modeling language, including the

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ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification. The Open Group