Automated enterprise architecture in ArchiMate
Standard-compliant models across the five layers, without the manual modelling cycle.
Result reported by the client on this engagement.
Context
An enterprise architecture team had to produce ArchiMate-compliant architectures efficiently. The standard defines elements and relationships across the motivation, strategy, business, application and technology layers, but provides no method for running the exercise itself. Manual work required interviews, document analysis and iterative modelling, with a risk of inconsistency between layers.
Approach
- 01Structuring and automation of the architecture creation process.
- 02Ingestion and analysis of documentation, interviews and strategic material.
- 03Systematic mapping of elements across all ArchiMate layers.
- 04Generation of compliant models, with correct element types and relationships.
- 05Architects refocused on validation and refinement.
Outcomes
- Production time reduced by 60 to 70 % per exercise.
- Consistent, standard-compliant models across all projects.
- Full coverage of all layers, with correct relationships.
- Architects freed up for strategic analysis and stakeholder dialogue.
Methods used on this engagement
Connecting business, applications and infrastructure is the precondition for any structuring IT decision.
Three other cases
The gap between business needs and standard ERP functions, measured at scoping time.
Initiatives scattered across departments, turned into a single, steered programme.
Specification books checked against regulation before production, rather than after.