Example Profile

Enterprise Architect is a highly compliant tool for modeling enterprise architectures using the ArchiMate language; in compliance with the specification it allows users, teams, organizations or industries to customize the language. This is always intended as a specialization of the existing language constructs and is never intended to compromise or compete with the linguistic structure of the language. This is a very useful feature and provides a mechanism for the addition of user-defined properties to elements, relationships and relationship connectors. For example engineering organizations might want to add user defined properties associated with safety or performance whereas a financial organization might want to add properties concerning money or credit.

This example shows the specialization of an ArchiMate business actor into two elements and an ArchiMate Flow relationship into a Money Flow. The Organizational Unit, for example, has two user defined properties added, namely:

• Corporate Level
• Location

The specialized relationship Money Flow, for example,  has two user defined properties added, namely:

• Amount
• Currency

Figure: Showing the specialization of an ArchiMate business actor and a flow relationship