Are you sharing your ArchiMate models and design patterns with the rest of the ArchiMate modelling community? Or are you hiding them in company silos? What are good and useful examples of ArchiMate models currently in circulation? How does one start with the ArchiMate language as a beginner? Interesting questions. I often get emails from […]
Archi Update – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Slightly belated Summer Solstice Greetings! It’s time to provide an update on the latest events and progress from Archi world. These are interesting times we live in, and it’s an interesting time of the year. Hence the title of this update – referring of course to Shakespeare’s play dealing with the themes of confusion, trickery, […]
Archi Spotlight – Archi Supports the Government of New Brunswick’s EA Program
In this Archi Spotlight, Peter Gee talks about how he introduced ArchiMate and Archi to the government of New Brunswick in Canada. Peter, tell us a little about yourself and how this initiative came about. Several years ago, the Office of the CIO for New Brunswick embarked on an Enterprise Architecture (EA) program. I was […]
Generating content from an ArchiMate Exchange Format file using XSLT
In this blog post I describe how to generate a basic standalone HTML report from an XML file exported in The Open Group’s ArchiMate exchange format using an XSLT stylesheet. In my last blog post I wrote about The Open Group’s ArchiMate exchange format and how its main purpose is to allow the exchange of […]
The Open Group’s ArchiMate Exchange Format and Archi 3.3
Some of you might have noticed that Archi 3.3 has been released. This latest version of Archi includes a new plug-in which supports The Open Group’s ArchiMate file exchange format. This represents the fruits of some years and months’ labour! I’ve been collaborating with The Open Group, and representatives from associated parties and tool vendors, […]
Solstice Update
Solstice Greetings! I thought I’d write a review of the latter half of 2014 and a brief update of where we are now before we move into 2015. So, what’s happened since the last blog post in July? New Forums In August we moved the forums to a new home at http://forum.archimatetool.com. The Google Groups […]
Archi, ArchiMate and Open Source
The Open Group recently published an interesting case study on their blog, ArchiMate, An Open Group Standard: Public Research Centre Henri Tudor and Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg. In 2012, the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg allowed the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor to experiment with an access rights management system modeled using ArchiMate. According to the […]
What is wrong with this picture? (TM)
If you know ArchiMate, there’s a good chance that you know Gerben Wierda‘s post series “What is wrong with this picture?”. This blog post is both a tribute to his work and an attempt to explain the importance of why you should be aware of the difference between core relations and derived ones. In his book […]