Creating Applications and Dependencies to Business Processes

Use the application usage viewpoint to express how applications support business processes.

Use the ArchiMate® application usage viewpoint to express how applications support business processes.

To depict the support of business processes by IT applications, proceed as follows:

• Create an application usage viewpoint

• Create a component to depict a completed unit of an IT application

• Create a service at application level to express which services a component realizes

• Assign a business process to a service to show that the service is used by the process