Business Architecture Develop the Target Business Architecture that describes how the enterprise needs to operate to achieve the business goals, and respond to the strategic drivers set out in the Architecture Vision

Demonstrating the business value of subsequent architecture work to key stakeholders

Return on investment to those stakeholders from supporting and participating in the subsequent work.

The business strategy typically defines what to achieve — the goals and drivers, and the metrics for success — but not how to get there

Purpose

Target Architecture development is top-down Baseline bottom-up

2 ways

Activity Models Use-Case Models Class Models Node Connectivity Diagram Information Exchange Matrix

Business Modeling

Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflows of stepwise activities and actions with support for choice, iteration and concurrency. In the Unified Modeling Language, activity diagrams are intended to model both computational and organizational processes (i.e. workflows).Activity diagrams show the overall flow of control.

Activity Diagrams

Eg:

BPMN

BPMN

standard Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) will provide businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard manner.

BPMN

Archimate - ArchiMate distinguishes itself from other languages

such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) by its enterprise modelling scope.

Use-case models

Class Diagrams

Node connectivity

The Information Exchange Requirements (IER's) identify who exchanges what information with whom, why the information is necessary, and in what manner.

IER

E.g: RosettaNet — www.rosettanet.org

Tmforum

The TOGAF content framework differentiates between the functions of a business and the services of a business. Business services are specific functions that have explicit, defined boundaries that are explicitly governed business-service' combines a 'business-function' and a 'business-capability'

Services