Your company must be able to respond to requirements in an agile manner. Complex IT landscapes must be made transparent, allowing you to exploit potential for optimization, assess changes, plan and manage. You require a language which allows you to commu-nicate on different levels within your company and enables you to make fast, informed decisions.In order to create accountability, it must be possible to connect the basis of decisions directly to artefacts of business process modeling and software architecture.

Modeling with Innovator for Enterprise Architects

With Innovator for Enterprise Archi-tects, MID offers you the possibility to display your enterprise architecture based on the ArchiMate® 2.0 standard.ArchiMate® can be individually custom-ized through profiles to meet the challenges of your company.Using the connection to other parts of the Innovator platform, we create trace-ability across domains and languages to BPMN and UML.

Highlights • Transparent enterprise architec-

ture can be represented

• Open standards from The Open Group such as ArchiMate® 2.0

• Representation of enterprise architecture according to TOGAF®

• Model-based impact analysis

• Supports the management of service-oriented architectures

• Graphical representation of elements at the business, application and infrastructure level

• Capturing contextual informa-tion (e.g. stakeholders, goals and requirements) using the Archi-Mate® motivation extension

• Representation of the relationships to other models in Innovator for Business Analysts, Innovator for Software Architects and Innovator for Database Architects

• Generation of documentation in HTML or Microsoft Word directly from the model

Innovator for Enterprise ArchitectsModeling with ArchiMate®

Layered view shows the connections of different architectural layers

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tation, and maintenance of enterprise architectures, from which you can create model-based representations using Innovator for Enterprise Architects.Model elements are modeled on five different layers and linked by relation-ships to create the representation of the enterprise architecture. Innovator for Enterprise Architects distinguishes the following layers:

• Business Layer

• Application Layer

• Technology Layer

• Motivation Extension

• Implementation & Migration Extension

In addition, Innovator for Enterprise Architects offers the option to connect ArchiMate® 2.0 elements with elements from other Innovator editions, or to derive ArchiMate® 2.0 elements from elements of other editions using drag & drop. This gives you complete trace-ability starting with your company aims through to the implementation of an application in your company.

migration and implementation. Innovator for Enterprise Architects therefore provides you with a modeling tool that supports you in the management of your enterprise architecture and helps you to optimize your enterprise archi-tecture. ArchiMate® 2.0 is particularly closely linked with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®). TOGAF® represents a method for drafting as well as planning, implemen-

Overview

An architect uses a blueprint to describe an architecture. This allows him to clearly describe the different aspects of his construction. In the same way, a tool is required to allow enterprise architects to describe the IT architecture of an enterprise, so they can represent and analyze the development of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, application systems and infrastructure.

Nowadays, enterprise architects use an array of different tools for completing their tasks. They range from Office appli-cations to modeling tools for business processes and UML. All this is integrated into Innovator for Enterprise Architects.

Modeling of enterprise architecture

The most important part of Innovator for Enterprise Architects is an editor for modeling enterprise architectures with ArchiMate® 2.0 (The Open Group standard). In addition to this standard, you can also capture requirements from stakeholders, organizational structures and chronological developments through

Illustration of the ArchiMate core and all extensions

Combination of different modeling languages in one model

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• Modeling with ArchiMate® 2.0

• Color representation of layers

• Direct creation of ArchiMate® elements from other Innovator model elements using drag & drop

• Derivation of business processes, software architectures and data-bases from ArchiMate®

• Representation of all relation-ships, across models in a white-board diagram

• Model excerpt view with various filters

• Attachments (documents or graphics) to model elements

• Integration of textual require-ments

• Portfolio analysis

• Configurable model elements al-low project-specific extensions

• Central model server for team-work throughout the organiza-tion

• Automatic creation of docu-mentation (using customizable reports for HTML and Microsoft Word)

• API for extensions in Java and .NET (C++, VB.NET)

Gap analysis

It is possible to model the change history of the architecture with the help of ArchiMate®'s implementation & migration extension. The development stages of the architecture are modeled in the form of gaps to describe their differences, representing the results of a gap analysis. Freely configurable documentation generation in HTML and Word is a strength of Innovator for Enterprise Architects. In addition to the model, a gap analysis is generated using documentation which is pre-configured by our experts in the form of a Microsoft Word document. In this way, you can create transparency and quick, flexible means for analysis.Development stages of the architecture can be directly contrasted and compared. This provides additional support for the verification of enterprise architectures.

Portfolio analysis

A portfolio analysis of certain elements of an enterprise architecture can be performed using the export of portfolio graphics from Innovator for Enterprise

FeaturesArchitects. A number of elements are contrasted with each other in two dimensions, e.g. business processes can be evaluated using freely configurable key figures. They are then exported to Excel at the push of a button, where they are represented as a portfolio graphic. This form of visualization allows a simple comparison or a grouping of business processes based on their position.Gradients, or the size of the represen-tations in the diagram can be used to include additional information in the graphic. This makes it possible to present a clear overview of, for example, strategic contribution, added value, cost and risk of business processes.Portfolio graphics are a common means of decision making in strategic IT planning and project portfolio manage-ment. Portfolio graphics can also be used to compare information systems or projects, in addition to business processes. They offer real added value when it comes to arranging information in a compact and clear manner.

Portfolio analysis

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Innovator Enterprise Modeling Suite

Innovator for Enterprise Architects can be seamlessly integrated with other products of the Innovator Modeling Suite as well as other integration scenarios.

- Innovator for Business Analysts- Innovator for Software Architects- Innovator for Database Architects- Innovator Office Integration- Innovator SAP Integration

Innovator Enterprise Modeling Suite:

• Integrated solution from identifica-tion of requirements and business processes right through to applica-tion development

• Intuitive user interface and new trend-setting user concepts

• Extensible platform with open APIs

• Support of industry standards such as ArchiMate, BPMN, UML, WSDL, XSD and XMI

• Flexible customization using DSLs and profiles

• Central model server supports distributed teams

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