Enschede, 28 May 2008 - The ArchiMate language for modelling, analysing and visualising enterprise architectures, was officially transferred to The Open Group. This marks the development of a Dutch creation towards an open standard on a global scale.
Product launches that are postponed or do not stay within budget are a thorn in the side of many an entrepreneur. But how can you know in advance the consequences a single decision will have for the rest of the organisation? ArchiMate is an independent description technology used to model and visualise the connections between various business domains. This gives decision-makers a powerful instrument to maintain an overview of the results of changes across the entire width of the organisation, and to schedule and communicate them effectively. “This enables them to quickly respond to different client needs and business goals without the resulting changes leading to chaos,” explains Henry Franken, chairman of the new ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group.
The ArchiMate language was developed between 2002 and 2004 by a consortium of enterprises, government organisations and research institutions under the direction of the Telematica Instituut. The ArchiMate Foundation has primarily contributed to the distribution and use of this modelling language. Since last year, this has been an independent organisation, whose goal is the international acceptance of this open standard. According to Marc Lankhorst of the Telematica Instituut, the assistance of The Open Group guarantees ArchiMate a place in history. “We’ve seen that, with other standards like the Unified Modelling Language for describing software and the TOGAF method for architectural development, the international standardisation of methods and techniques has given a tremendous impulse to the field.”
As a global consortium of organisations and knowledge institutions, The Open Group focuses its efforts on improving access to integrated information within and between organisations. To accomplish this, the group uses open standards. Well-known examples of these are the UNIX® operating system and WAP protocol for wireless communication applications. More information can be found at
www.archimate.org
http://www.opengroup.org/overview/what-we-do.htm#2