{"id":444,"date":"2016-07-14T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T10:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:07:47","slug":"abacus-updated-to-support-the-open-groups-archimate-3-0-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-updated-to-support-the-open-groups-archimate-3-0-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"ABACUS updated to support The Open Group&#8217;s ArchiMate 3.0 standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>The ArchiMate standard sets a common language for describing business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure.<\/h6>\n<p>It assists users of enterprise modeling and analytics tools such as ABACUS in describing data, designing models, and communicating their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Avolution\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/abacus\/\">ABACUS<\/a> toolset complies with industry best-practice open standards. As well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/abacus\/frameworks\/archimate\/\">ArchiMate 3.0<\/a>, ABACUS also supports the latest Open Group Architecture Framework, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/abacus\/frameworks\/togaf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TOGAF<\/a>. It is the only tool which provides out-of-the-box support for the complete metamodels of both Open Group standards.<\/p>\n<p>Avolution\u2019s Andrew Lewthwaite said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEnterprise or Solution architects who choose ArchiMate as their common language for describing IT and business systems can confidently use ABACUS 4.5 Avolution&#8217;s training, professional services and partners to support their practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArchiMate 3.0 now represents the strategic aspects of an enterprise, covering the important business and IT alignment challenges that companies face today. Common approaches such as capability maps are now supported within the language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew concepts have also been added to model the physical world. For example, facilities, equipment and materials. The inclusion of these concepts allows for improved modeling of the integration between IT Systems and physical entities, as is required for the Internet of Things (IoT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, ArchiMate is now much more aligned with TOGAF and other standards. The enhanced notation and the increase in cross-layer relations and robustness of the language will certainly improve the practical usability of ArchiMate going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABACUS also supports more than 100 other industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/abacus\/frameworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frameworks and notations<\/a>, including DoDAF, MoDAF, FEAF, PEAF, BPMN and UML. The ABACUS toolset is designed to allow users to easily adapt or create meta-models through a straightforward \u2018drag-and-drop\u2019 interface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6><strong>More about <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/abacus\/frameworks\/archimate\/\"><strong>ArchiMate in ABACUS<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ArchiMate standard sets a common language for describing business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. It assists users of enterprise modeling and analytics tools such as ABACUS in describing data, designing models, and communicating their decisions. Avolution\u2019s ABACUS toolset complies with industry best-practice open standards. 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