Organization View and Business Process Collaboration View in Enterprise Architecture

Organization View

What is an Organization View?

Organization view is used to describe the organizational structure of units such as enterprises, companies, departments, or even corporate networks. The structure is usually presented in a nested manner, though a traditional organization chart presentation is also common. It helps determine the capabilities and responsibilities of organizational units.

The table below details the organization viewpoint.

Stakeholders

Enterprises, process and domain architects, managers, employees, stakeholders

Concern

Identification of capabilities (competence), authority and responsibility

Purpose

Design, decide, inform

Scope

Single layer / single angle

Elements

Business participants, business roles, business collaborations, locations, business interfaces

Organization View Example

The figure below shows an architecture diagram drawn under the Organization viewpoint.

Business Process Collaboration View

What is a Business Process Collaboration View?

Business Process Collaboration view is used to model the main business process flows of an enterprise. It can create a high‑level design of business processes, providing operational managers insight into their dependencies. It also allows modeling the mapping of business functions to processes and how business services are realized through processes.

The table below describes the business process collaboration viewpoint in more detail.

Stakeholders

Process and domain architects, operational managers

Concern

Dependencies between business processes, consistency and integrity, responsibilities

Purpose

Design, decide

Scope

Hierarchical / multi‑angle

Elements

Business participants, business roles, business collaborations, locations, business interfaces, business processes/functions/interactions, business events, business services, business objects, representations, application components/collaborations, application interfaces, application processes/functions/interactions, application events, application services, data objects

Business Process Collaboration View Example

The figure below shows an ArchiMate diagram drawn under the business process collaboration viewpoint.

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