ArchiMate® 1.0 Specification

* Archimate is simple but comprehensive enough to provide a good structuring mechanism for architecture domains, layers, and aspects. * Archimate incorporates modern ideas of the “service orientation” paradigm. * Although it intentionally resembles the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the ArchiMate modeling notation is intuitive and much lighter than currently proposed by UML 2.0. * The two enterprise architecture standards of The Open Group – TOGAF and ArchiMate – complement each other and can be used well in combination. * Tool support for the ArchiMate language is already commercially available. http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c091.htm