Archimate Concept
ArchimateElement
ArchimateRelationship
ArchimateRelationshipConnector
ArchimateElementByLayer
BusinessLayer
ApplicationLayer
TechnologyLayer
PhysicalLayer
ImplementationAndMigrationLayer
MotivationElement
ActiveStructureElement
represents the structural elements (the business actors, application components, and devices that display actual behavior; i.e., the 'subjects' of activity)
ExternalActiveStructureElement
InternalActiveStructureElement
PassiveStructureElement
represents the objects on which behavior is performed. These are usually information objects in the Business Layer and data objects in the Application Layer, but they may also be used to represent physical objects
BehaviorElement
represents the behavior (processes, functions, events, and services) performed by the actors. Structural elements are assigned to behavioral elements, to show who or what displays the behavior
InternalBehaviorElement
Event - BehaviorElement
A composite element is an element that does not necessarily fit in a single aspect (column) of the framework, but may combine two or more aspects.
ViewpointByContent
Details
views on the detailed level typically consider one layer and one aspect from the ArchiMate Core Framework Typical stakeholders are a software engineer responsible for design and implementation of a software component or a process owner responsible for effective and efficient process execution
Coherence
at the coherence abstraction level, multiple layers or multiple aspects are spanned Extending the view to more than one layer or aspect enables the stakeholder to focus on architecture relationships like process-uses-system (multiple layer) or application-uses-object (multiple aspect). Typical stakeholders are operational managers responsible for a collection of IT services or business processes.
Overview
the overview abstraction level addresses both multiple layers and multiple aspects Typically, such overviews are addressed to Enterprise Architects and decision-makers, such as CEOs and CIOs.