Enterprise Architecture: An Alternative to ArchiMate Conceptualization

ArchiMate is a modeling language developed to provide a uniform representation of enterprise architecture descriptions. It visualizes the different architecture domains and their underlying relationships and dependencies. Many organizations are already using it as the standard for describing enterprise architecture. Because of its inherent holistic nature and as a direct consequence of its coarse-grained language, ArchiMate lacks specificity for in-depth modeling of different perspectives. This paper proposes a flow-based modeling technique as a foundation enterprise architecture. This approach is illustrated by use of a case study from the ArchiMate literature.