Extracting archimate views from custom ontological ea models

 Author: Matteo Busanelli

Enterprise Architecture Standard Representation

EXTRACTING ARCHIMATE® VIEWS FROM
CUSTOM ONTOLOGICAL EA MODELS

From our experience

 Dealing with EA means to deal with:
 Different knowledge domains
(Business, IT, Infrastracture, PM etc…)
 Several specialized frameworks/methodologies
(COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL, PMBOK etc…)
 Many Organizational units and people
 Several domain specific Tools and information silos
 Many information formats

 Frequently EA needs to reconciliate heterogeneous
informations to govern and drive change
management and improve Business-IT alignment

Extracting Archimate® views from custom ontological EA models 2

Context overview (1/2)

Business

PM
IT EA Domain
Infrastructure

produces formalized

Company
feeds
EA Ontological
Model

to support
Existing sources &
Different formats


Overview of the context (2/2)

Business

PM EA tool
IT EA Domain proprietary solution

Infrastructure
Reporting / EA
produces
Representation
formalized

standard solution
EA Standard
Company representation
feeds
EA Ontological model
Model

Compliant Compliant . .. Compliant
tool #1 tool #2 tool #n


The Open Group Standard
ArchiMate 2.0 ®

Extracting Archimate® views from custom ontological EA models

ArchiMate 2.0®

From the official Open Group definition document:

 "To provide a uniform representation for diagrams that describe enterprise
architectures, the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language has
been developed. It offers an integrated architectural approach that
describes and visualizes the different architecture domains and their
underlying relations and dependencies."

 "The role of the ArchiMate standard is to provide a graphical language for
the representation of enterprise architectures over time (i.e., including
transformation and migration planning), as well as their motivation and
rationale. The evolution of the standard is closely linked to the
developments of the TOGAF standard and the emerging results from The
Open Group forums and work groups active in this area. As a consequence, the
ArchiMate standard does not provide its own set of defined terms, but
rather follows those provided by the TOGAF standard."


ArchiMate 2.0®

 Is an abstract model for representing EA from different viewpoints

 A standard for exchanging and sharing EA diagrams aligned with TOGAF

 Performs cost analysis and business case calculations

 Implemented by different commercial and open EA tools

 Used by Bank of Italy as a language for describing IT Architectures
(from “Enterprise Architecture – La prospettiva di Banca d’Italia” speech part of 2012 ABI Lab
workshop on EA 1)

1. http://www.abilab.it/eventi/workshop-architetture-it-2012

Extracting Archimate® views from custom ontological EA models

ArchiMate 2.0 - Business Layer concepts


ArchiMate 2.0 - Application Layer concepts


ArchiMate 2.0 - Technology Layer concepts


ArchiMate 2.0 - Relationships


ArchiMate 2.0 - Motivation Extension


ArchiMate 2.0 – Some examples of EA views

Vista Business Strategic
EA

Technical
viewpoint

Applicative
viewpoint
EA Transition


An ArchiMate 2.0 modelling tool: Archi


Archi – Summary of features

 Free open source tool developed and maintained by the Institute

of Educational Cybernetics of University of Bolton (latest release

of November, 2012)

 Creation of diagrams (views) by using the complete

ArchiMate 2.0 components palette

 All graphical components are classified according to the Business, Applicative and Technology Layers.

 Allows new model template definition

 Allows EA components to be customized (i.e. custom attributes)

 All diagram exportable in different output formats

 Extendable by plug-ins


Archi: some screenshots


Automatic generation of ArchiMate
diagrams from EA ontological models:
AOI Plugin


An approach starting from a custom company model of EA

Business App Interface
application App Component
process
Device
Data
Flow Device
IT service Business Service

ArchiMate
Ontology Import
Plug-in

Company EA ArchiMate 2.0 ®
ON TIME
Ontological Model MAPPING (SPARQL) Ontological Model IMPORT
(OWL/RDF) (OWL/RDF)


ArchiMate Ontology Importer Plug-in

 ArchiMate Ontology Importer (AOI) is an ARCHI PLUG-IN developed and mantained
by Imola Informatica that can import ArchiMate 2.0 compliant ontologies (in
OWL/RDF/N3 format) into Archi diagrams.

 Developed plug-in features:
 Import of all Business Layer Components
 Import of all Application Layer Components
 Import of all Technology Layer Components
 Import of all Motivation Layer Components
 Generation of different kind of relationship views
 Generation of predefined base diagrams (i.e Applications Flow View)
 Generation of several hierarchical grouping views (i.e Application for Functional Domains )
 Some advanced automatic layout functionality


AOI Plug-in: Post import example

Application
organized for
Functional Area
and Company


AOI Plug-in: current applications & future works

• AOI Plug-in is a BETA version and still under development/testing
• the plugin was tested on Archi release 2.2.2 and 2.3
• the exploited Archimate Model (ontology) is compliant to Archimate 2.0
model.

• Application on real domains:
• tested on IT Architecture assets of a big Italian insurance group
• tested on Business and IT architecture assets of a Bank from northern Italy

• Future work:
 optimization of automatic layout algorithm
 update of already imported models
 import of all the custom property defined for the components
 …


References

 OpenGroup Archimate
 http://www.opengroup.org/subjectareas/enterprise/archimate

 http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchiMate

 TOGAF
 http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/

 https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/w118

 ARCHI
 http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/

 http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/download.html

 ABI Lab - EA Workshop 2012
 http://www.abilab.it/eventi/workshop-architetture-it-2012


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