ArchiMate® Diagrams

Shows use of applications e.g. in business processes.

Shows relationships between various business processes.

Provides an overview of architecture(s).

Focuses on refining the initial, superordinate targets in concrete (partial) targets using the aggregation relationship and then in requirements and constraints using the realization relationship.

Used to model the relationships between the programs and projects and the parts of the architecture that they implement.

Shows the structure of information used within the company.

Shows how technology is used by applications.

Used to model the transition from an existing architecture to a target architecture.

Covers the entire motivational aspect and allows use of all motivational elements.

Primarily used to model management of architecture changes.

Focuses on modeling the realization of requirements and constraints by means of core elements, such as actors, services, processes, application components, etc.

Focuses on modeling of stakeholders, drivers, evaluations of these drivers and initial targets to address these drivers and evaluations.

Provides a high-level strategic overview of the strategies of the enterprise, its capabilities, value streams, and resources, and the envisaged outcomes.

Represents an organizational state change.

Represents a collection of business behavior based on a chosen set of criteria (typically required business resources and/or competencies), closely aligned to an organization, but not necessarily explicitly governed by the organization.

Represents a unit of collective business behavior performed by (a collaboration of) two or more business actors, business roles,or business collaborations.

Represents an aggregate of two or more business internal active structure elements that work together to perform collective behavior.

Represents a concept used within a particular business domain.

Represents a sequence of business behaviors which achieve a specific result, such as a defined set of products or business services.

Represents the responsibility for performing specific behavior, to which an actor can be assigned, or the part an actor plays in a particular action or event.

Represents explicitly defined behavior that a business role, business actor, or business collaboration exposes to its environment.

Represents a point of access where a business service is made available to the environment.

Represents a coherent collection of services and/or passive structure elements, accompanied by a contract/set of agreements, which is offered as a whole to (internal or external) customers.

Represents a perceptible form of the information carried by a business object.

Represents a conceptual or physical place or position where concepts are located (e.g. structure elements) or performed (e.g. behavior elements).

Represents a formal or informal specification of an agreement between a provider and a consumer that specifies the rights and obligations associated with a product and establishes functional and non-functional parameters for interaction.

Represents a business entity that is capable of performing behavior.

Represents data structured for automated processing.

Represents automated behavior that can be performed by an application component.

Represents a unit of collective application behavior performed by (a collaboration of) two or more application components.

Represents an aggregate of two or more application internal active structure elements that work together to perform collective application behavior.

Represents an encapsulation of application functionality aligned to implementation structure, which is modular and replaceable.

Represents a point of access where application services are made available to a user, another application component, or a node.

Represents an explicitly defined exposed application behavior.

Represents a piece of data that is used or produced in a software development process, or by deployment and operation of an IT system.

Represents a physical IT resource upon which system software and artifacts may be stored or deployed for execution.

Represents a computational or physical resource that hosts, manipulates, or interacts with other computational or physical resources.

Represents a set of structures that connects nodes for transmission, routing, and reception of data.

Represents a link between two or more nodes, through which these nodes can exchange data, energy or material.

Represents software that provides or contributes to an environment for storing, executing, and using software or data deployed within it.

Represents a collection of technology behavior that can be performed by a node.

Represents a point of access where technology services offered by a node can be accessed.

Represents an explicitly defined exposed technology behavior.

Represents a statement of need defining a property that applies to a specific system as described by the architecture.

Represents the knowledge or expertise present in, or the interpretation given to, a concept in a particular context.

Represents the result of an analysis of the state of affairs of the enterprise with respect to some driver.

Represents a factor that limits the realization of goals.

Represents a statement of intent defining a general property that applies to any system in a certain context in the architecture.

Represents the role of an individual, team, or organization (or classes thereof) that represents their interests in the effects of the architecture.

Represents an external or internal condition that motivates an organization to define its goals and implement the changes necessary to achieve them.

Represents the relative worth, utility, or importance of a concept.

Represents a high-level statement of intent, direction, or desired end state for an organization and its stakeholders.

Represents a precisely-defined result of a work package.

Represents a statement of difference between two plateaus.

Represents a relatively stable state of the architecture that exists during a limited period of time.

Represents a series of actions identified and designed to achieve specific results within specified time and resource constraints.

Aggregates or composes concepts that belong together based on some common characteristic.

Represents that an element is a particular kind of another element.

Represents that an element consists of one or more other concepts.

Represents that an element combines one or more other concepts.

Represents the allocation of responsibility, performance of behavior, storage or execution.

Represents that an entity plays a critical role in the creation, achievement, sustenance or operation of a more abstract entity.

Represents a temporal or causal relationship between elements.

Represents transfer (e.g. of information, goods or money) from one element to another.

Represents that an element affects the implementation or achievement of some motivation element.

Represents an unspecified relationship or one that is not represented by another ArchiMate relationship.

Represents a directed, unspecified relationship or one that is not represented by another ArchiMate relationship.

Represents that an element provides its functionality to another element.

Represents the ability of behavior and active structure elements to observe or act upon passive structure elements.

Represents the ability of behavior and active structure elements to read passive structure elements.

Represents the ability of behavior and active structure elements to read and write passive structure elements.