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ArchiMate Metamodel of the Processes and Architecture Integration

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Written by Rutuja Murumkar
Updated over a week ago

This is the ArchiMate version of the metamodel supported for Processes. Relationships highlighted in green are the entities supported in the Processes module.

NOTE: Make sure the relationships are enabled in your BlueDolphin tenant before you publish the process.

Connected object(s)

Relationship Type

Relationship(s)

Business Actor

Association

Business Actor

Application Component to a task type (task, user task, service task, send task, receive task, manual task, business rule task, script task)

serving

Application Component serves Business Process

Business Actor to a pool or a lane

serving

Business Process serves Business Actor

Application Component serves Business Actor(when the application component is connected to a task type in the lane)

Business Role to a pool or a lane


​serving

Business Process serves Business Role

Application Component serves Business Role(when the application component is connected to a task type in the lane)

Business Actor to a pool and Business Role to a lane*

assignment

Business Actor assigned to Business Role

Business Process to a call activity

triggering

Business Process triggers Business Process

Business Object to a data object

access

Business Process accesses Business Object or Business Object accesses Business Process
(depending on the direction when the data object has a data input/output association with a task type)

Data Object to a data store

access

Business Process accesses Data Object or Data Object accesses Business Process
(depending on the direction when the data store has a data input/output association with an application component connected to a task type)

association

Business Process associated with Data Object(when the data store has a data input/output association with an application component connected to a task type)

* If you use Business Actors and Business Roles, we recommend that you connect the Business Actor to the pool and the Business Role to a lane

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