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ArchiMate 3.1
Business layer Strategy elements

Business Business Business Business Business

Business Actor Business Event Business Object Representation Capability Value Stream
Collaboration Service Service Interaction Event

An aggregate of two or more business internal An explicitly defined behavior that a business A unit of collective business behavior performed
A business entity that is capable of performing active structure elements that work together to role, business actor, or business collaboration by (a collaboration of) two or more business A perceptible form of the information carried by An ability that an active structure element, such Sequence of activities that create an overall
behavior perform collective behavior exposes to its environment actors, roles, or business collaboartions An organizational state change A concept used within a particular business domain a b. object as an organization, person, or system, possesses result for a customer, stakeholder or end user

A formal or informal
specification of an
Business Business Business Business agreement between a
Course of
Business Role Product Contract Resource Action
Role Interface Process Function provider and a
A coherent consumer that
collection of services specifies the rights and
A responsibility for performing specific behavior, A sequence of business behaviors that achieves A collection of business behavior based on a and/or passive structure elements, accompanied by obligations associated with a product and An approach or plan for configuring some
to which an actor can be assigned, or the part an A point of access where a business service is a specific result such as a defined set of products chosen set of criteria (typically required business a contract/set of agreements, which is offered as a establishes functional and non-functional An asset owned or controlled by an individual or capabilities and resources of the enterprise,
actor plays in a particular action or event. made available to the environment or business services resources and/or competences) whole to customers parameters for interaction organization undertaken to achieve a goal

Application layer Motivation elements

Application Application Application Application Application Application Application Application

Data Object Stakeholder Driver Assessment
Component Component Collaboration Service Service Interaction Event Event
An external or
internal
An encapsulation of application functionality An aggregate of two or more application internal A unit of collective application behavior The role of an individual, team, or organization condition that motivates an organization to
aligned to implementation structure, which is active structure elements that work together to An explicitly defined exposed application performed by (a collaboration of) two or more (or classes thereof) that represents their define its goals and implement the changes The result of an analysis of the state of affairs of
modular and replaceable. perform collective application behavior. behavior application components An application state change Data structured for automated processing interests in the effects of the architecture necessary to achieve them the enterprise with respect to some driver

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Application
Interface
Application
Process
Application
Function
Goal Outcome Principle !
A point of access where application services are A high-level statement of intent, direction, or A statement of intent defining a general
made available to a user, another application A sequence of application behaviors that An automated behavior that can be performed desired end state for an organization and its property that applies to any system in a certain
component, or a node achieves a specific result by an application component stakeholders An end result context in the architecture

Technology layer Requirement Requirement Constraint Constraint Meaning

A statement of need defining a property that The knowledge or expertise present in, or the
applies to a specific system as described by the interpretation given to, a concept in a particular
Technology Technology Technology Technology Technology Technology architecture A factor that limits the realization of goals context
Node Node Artifact Artifact
Collaboration Service Service Interaction Event Event

A computational or physical resource that hosts, An aggregate of two or more technology internal A unit of collective technology behavior A piece of data that is used or produced in a
manipulates, or interacts with other active structure elements that work together to An explicitly defined exposed technology performed by (a collaboration of) two or more software development process, or by deployment
computational or physical resources perform collective technology behavior behavior nodes A technology state change and operation of an IT system Value

The relative worth, utility, or importance of a

Device Technology Technology Technology concept
Device Interface Process Function

A physical IT resource upon which system

software and artifacts may be stored or A point of access where technology services A sequence of technology behaviors that A collection of technology behavior that can be
deployed for execution offered by a node can be accessed achieves a specific result performed by a node
Implementation and Migration elements

System System Deliverable Implementation Implementation

Path Work Package event
Software Software Event

Physical elements
Software that provides or contributes to an A link between two or more nodes, through A series of actions identified and designed to
environment for storing, executing, and using which these nodes can exchange data, energy or achieve specific results within specified time and A state change related to implementation or
software or data deployed within it material resource constraints A precisely-defined outcome of a work package migration

Distribution
Equipment Facility Material
Network

Communication A set of structures that connects nodes for Gap

Network transmission, routing, and reception of data One or more physical machines, tools, or Plateau
instruments that can create, use, store, move, or A physical network used to transport materials
transform materials A physical structure or environment or energy Tangible physical matter or energy

A relatively stable state of the architecture that

exists during a limited period of time A statement of difference between two plateaus

Relationships Composite elements

Structural Dependency Dynamic Other Relationship Grouping
+/- Connectors
Location
Composition Assignment Serving Influence Triggering Specialization
Association Junction (and)
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Aggregation Realization Access Flow Junction (or) A place or position where structure elements Aggregates or composes concepts that belong
can be located or behavior can be performed together based on some common characteristic

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