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Organization Viewpoint

Example Presentation

Creating an Organizational Viewpoint Diagram

Creating an organizational View and its diagram

Creating Business Actors

Saving a Diagram

The Organization viewpoint focuses on the (internal) organization of a company, a department, a network of companies, or of another organizational entity (i.e. a Business Actor). It is possible to present models in this viewpoint as organizational charts. The Organization viewpoint is very useful in identifying competencies, authority, and responsibilities in an organization.

With this viewpoint, you will learn how to describe your first viewpoint diagram.

Example Presentation

The diagram below describes the "ArchiSurance" organization.

Organization viewpoint diagram

"ArchiSurance" is a business actor composed by:

- A front office, comprising departments for managing relations with customers on the one hand, and intermediaries on the other hand.

Three separate back offices:

Home & Away: this department was the original pre-merger ArchiSurance, responsible for home and travel insurance.

Legal Aid: this is the old Legally Yours, responsible for legal aid and liability insurance.

Car: this department is the core of the old PRO-FIT and handles car insurance, including some legal aid.

Furthermore, ArchiSurance is in the process of setting up a Shared Service Center for document processing, which will handle all document streams and performs scanning, printing, and archiving job.

Creating an Organizational Viewpoint Diagram

In Hopex for the ArchiMate® Framework, the "organizational viewpoint" is a materialized by diagram describing a Business Actor.

Creating an organizational View and its diagram

To create the organizational view:

1. In the Models navigation bar, expand the ArchiMate Models folder.

2. Right click your ArchiMate Model, "ArchiSurance" for example, and select New > View.

The Creation of View dialog box appears.

3. In the Viewpoint field, select Organizational and click OK.

The new view appears in the Views folder. Its Name is automatically computed, but it can be modified.

The organizational view diagram opens in the edition area.

Creating Business Actors

You will define the Business Actors of the "ArchiSurance" organization structure.

To create a Business Actor in the organizational view diagram:

1. In the insert toolbar, click the Business Actor button.

2. Click in the diagram.

The Creation of Business Actor dialog box appears.

3. Select the Name of the Business Actor, "ArchiSurance" for example.

4. Click OK.

The Business Actor appears in the diagram.

Assigning Sub-Actors to a Business Actor

To assign a Business Actor to another Business Actor, for example "Front Office" to "ArchiSurance" actor:

1. Click the Link button

2. Click the parent business actor and, holding down the mouse button, drag the cursor to the child business actor to be connected and release the mouse button.

The two Business Actors are highlighted, and a dotted line indicates the path that will be taken by the graphic link.

3. Select the Composition relationship type.

The Composition link appears in the diagram.

Saving a Diagram

To save your drawing, click the Save button