Through the specialisation mechanism of ArchiMate® 3.2, any capable tool or environment can be used to model enterprises with EDGY elements. This proposal is designed with two main use cases in mind:
Using ArchiMate® to create an enterprise model with EDGY only: to take advantage of a semantic modelling tool rather than a purely graphical diagram editor or similar, ArchiMate® elements and relations provide an invisible backbone underlying the model. Every EDGY element or relation will correspond to an ArchiMate® element or relation, but the depiction of each map (view) follows only the EDGY diagram depiction. Using EDGY in combination with ArchiMate®: in this scenario both languages are used together as part of the same model. EDGY is used to create maps representing identity and experience facets. A high level architecture modelled using EDGY can then be detailed and guided into implementation using more specific ArchiMate® viewpoints, taking advantage of the more rich and rigorous language features. |