In our previous blog, we outlined some of the most important changes in relationships in ArchiMate® 3.0. But there is more. In this article, we discuss updates related to the Grouping and Junction concepts in the ArchiMate modeling language. These improvements significantly enhance the expressive power of enterprise architecture models.

The Business Model Canvas is a practical tool to understand how your business creates, delivers, and captures value. In this article, we explore how analyzing your business model can help answer key questions about revenue, costs, and opportunities for improvement. Using a fictional case study, you’ll see how to apply this analysis and why the right tools make a difference.

Topic: Business process management focuses on how the enterprise operates and delivers the results i.e. products and services to external and internal customers. 

Process models represent an abstract view of a business process and serve as a blueprint for implementing or improving it. A process model describes how the process works, what steps are involved, and how those steps are performed. 

Process models can be designed in business process management software or enterprise architecture platforms. We advise and promote designing business processes on an enterprise architecture platform, such as Bizzdesign Horizzon, because it helps you to design and execute transformations effectively. The benefits of this are described below.

If you’re looking for a tool to design architecture diagrams, consider your options. This guide helps you decide: An enterprise architecture tool vs. a single architecture diagramming tool.

Discover why you must incorporate enterprise architecture services as essential building blocks of your enterprise architecture management strategy, highlighting the business value they bring by aligning technology with business goals.

Solution architects fulfill a vital role in the organization. Get a high-level overview of solution architecture management.

To effectively assess a business capability and execute Capability-based Planning, we need to define and measure three dimensions: Strategic Importance, Capability Maturity, and Adaptability. 

Simply put, the first dimension lets you prioritize those capabilities that are most important to your enterprise; the second focuses on where improvement may be needed because the current maturity is too low; and the third looks at how easy or difficult it will be to make that improvement. 

Enterprise architecture is an essential instrument in improving the capabilities of your organization's functional business units. In recent years, Business Capability and Capability-based Planning have become popular and important in enterprise and business architecture. However, this concept is also confusing, particularly for those familiar with a similar idea of business function. In this blog, I want to clarify some of this confusion. 

Robust Solution Architecture example from Ameren 

As a solution architect in the energy sector, I would say that the success of all projects relies on one factor: you need to follow a consistent approach to solution design and asset management. When my team within the IT organization at Ameren began reviewing new projects in 2016, the solution architecture domain didn’t exist. The lack of standard deliverables and starting each project from scratch further complicated the architectural process. From 2017 through 2021, the solution architecture team was planned and established. Read on for a real-life solution architecture example…

Architects must reduce the complexity of creating diagrams in their enterprise architecture modeling endeavors. Creating overly complex diagrams (with too many different types of concepts) often confuses stakeholders. 

Each viewpoint must address a specific concern, e.g., a Business Capability Map showing the organization's capabilities. In this blog, I'll focus on the application layer and provide practical examples using the viewpoint creation pattern. The examples are pretty generic, and they're meant as a starting point for professionals looking to learn more on the subject.