An enterprise architecture model (EAM) helps you analyze and document your organization and its business functions, along with the applications and systems that support them and the physical architecture on which they are implemented.
Creating an EAM
- To create a new EAM - Select , and choose Enterprise Architecture Model.
- To create a new EAM by importing a Visio diagram - Open your diagram in Visio and select .
The following types of diagrams are available:
- A process map provides a graphical view of your business architecture, and helps you identify your business functions and high-level processes, independent of the people and business units who fulfill them.
- An organization chart provides a graphical view of your organization as a tree structure, and helps you analyze and display the relationships between organization units (divisions, groups, teams, etc), individuals, and roles.
- A business communication diagram provides a graphical view of your organization, and helps you analyze, the relationships, flows, and other connections between business functions, organization units, roles, and sites.
- A city planning diagram provides a graphical view of the big picture of your enterprise architecture, using the metaphor of planning the infrastructure of a city to represent the organization of systems, applications, etc into architectural areas.
- A service-oriented diagram provides a graphical view of your business and application services and the relationships between them, and helps you associate applications and other application layer objects with business services and processes to assist with SOA design.
- An application architecture diagram provides a high-level graphical view of the application architecture, and helps you identify applications, sub-applications, components, databases, services, etc, and their interactions.
- A technology infrastructure diagram provides a high-level graphical view of the physical architecture required to support the application architecture.
Exporting and Importing Objects to and from Other Models
The EAM provides wizards to export EA objects to lower-level models and to import implementation objects to be represented in the EAM:
- To export EAM objects to another model - Select
- To import objects from other models into an EAM - Select
Documentation
For detailed documentation, see Enterprise Architecture Modeling.