The Open Group created ArchiMate® as an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture (EA). The standard provides a notation to enable enterprise architects to describe, analyze, and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way.
ArchiMate® enables the creation of fully integrated models of the organization’s EA, the motivation for it, and the programs, projects and migration paths to implement it.
ArchiMate® Version 3.0 consists of the ArchiMate® Core (the core language), aimed at the description of the four architecture domains defined by the TOGAF® standard (business, data, application, and technology architectures, as well as their inter-relationships), and extensions to model the motivations for the architecture, and its implementation and migration planning.