ArchiMate Business Layer Elements
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Concept Name
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Notation
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Comment
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Business Actor
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A business actor is a business entity that is capable of performing behavior.
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Business Role
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A business role is the responsibility for performing specific behavior, to which an actor can be assigned, or the part an actor plays in a particular action or event.
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Business Collaboration
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A business collaboration is an aggregate of two or more business internal active structure elements that work together to perform collective behavior.
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Business Interface
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A business interface is a point of access where a business service is made available to the environment.
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Business Object
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A business object represents a concept used within a particular business domain.
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Business Process
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A business process is defined as a unit of internal behavior or collection of causally related units of internal behavior intended to produce a defined set of products and services.
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Business Event
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A business event is a business behavior element that denotes an organizational state change. It may originate from and be resolved inside or outside the organization.
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Business Function
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A business function is a collection of business behavior based on a chosen set of criteria (typically required business resources and/or competencies), closely aligned to an organization, but not necessarily explicitly governed by the organization.
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Business Interaction
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Business interaction is defined as a unit of behavior performed by a collaboration of two or more business roles.
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Business Service
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A business service represents an explicitly defined exposed business behavior.
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Product
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A product represents a coherent collection of services and/or passive structure elements, accompanied by a contract/set of agreements, which is offered as a whole to (internal or external) customers.
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Representation
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A representation represents a perceptible form of the information carried by a business object.
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Contract
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A contract represents a formal or informal specification of an agreement between a provider and a consumer that specifies the rights and obligations associated with a product and establishes functional and non-functional parameters for interaction.
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Location
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A location is a place or position where structure elements can be located, or behavior can be performed.
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