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ArchiMate Application Usage Viewpoint

Show which application services serve each business process and which components realise those services.

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ArchiMate Application Usage viewpoint: applications supporting processes

The Application Usage viewpoint shows how applications support the business: services in the middle serve the processes above and are realised by the components below.

ArchiMate Application Usage viewpoint: applications supporting processes The ArchiMate 3.2 Application Usage viewpoint for London Grid Distribution. Two business processes sit at the top: assess capacity and publish network data. Two application services serve them from the middle row: the capacity lookup service serves the assessment process and the publication service serves the publishing process. At the bottom, the Connections portal and the GIS realise the capacity lookup service, and the LTDS publication system realises the publication service. Derived from the ArchiMate 3.2 Specification by The Open Group. serves serves realises realises realises BUSINESS PROCESS Assess capacity Decide if the network can host BUSINESS PROCESS Publish network data Issue the statutory data set APPLICATION SERVICE Capacity lookup service Answers headroom queries APPLICATION SERVICE Publication service Builds the published tables APPLICATION COMPONENT Connections portal Customer connection requests APPLICATION COMPONENT GIS Geography and connectivity APPLICATION COMPONENT LTDS publication system Publishing toolchain Derived from the ArchiMate 3.2 Specification, The Open Group

Read it top down to ask what would break: if a component fails, the services it realises stop, and the processes those services serve lose their support. The dependency chain is the point of the view.

When tracing process dependency on applications before change or retirement decisions.

What you need and what you get

You'll need

  • The business processes in scope
  • The application services and components behind them

You'll get

  • A process to application dependency view
  • A serving and realisation trace

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Derived from

  • The Open GroupArchiMate 3.2 Specification, Application Usage ViewpointSource

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