ArchiMate v3, OMG & Open Group

[Eamonn John Casey]

OMG recently released a UML profile for ArchiMate in XMI. Why would the two profiles be different? Or is the OMG one more open to interpretation?

Thought these guys were basically the same and worked together!

Maybe something to do With OMGs Unified Architect Framework and aligning ArchiMate to that...

[Geert Bellekens]

Are you sure there are multiple UML profiles for Archimate?

I can only find the one from the OMG.

According to a response from Simon on another post, the OMG profile is basically the one from Sparx (who is also a member of the OMG)

Geert

[Eve]

The UML Profile for ArchiMate allows for using ArchiMate in the context of UML models. It explicitly doesn't define all the semantics of the language, you still need to refer to the original Open Group specification for that information. (With the Open Group's licensing model being much more restrictive than OMG's)

Despite BPMN being an OMG specification, it also has a similar situation. The language itself defines its own metamodel, and a UML profile exists for a subset of the language.

EA implements every technology as a UML profile, so it makes little difference to how you would use ArchiMate within EA.

[Colin Coates]

I suggest that, to some extent, the OMG and the Open Group are competing organisations; sometimes they will cooperate because they have mutual interests.

The Open Group uses license sales as a significant source of funding whereas the OMG has not. It is important to be aware of and consider the Open Group's commercial licensing terms http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/as30/license_comm for ArchiMate.

Last time I checked, I observed that commercial use of ArchiMate can be quite expensive, since the license fee is based on the total turnover of your corporation and calculated on a sliding scale.

I am not a lawyer and the above comments do not constitute legal advice.