This article outlines practical guidelines for defining, distinguishing, and validating business capabilities, emphasizing that capabilities describe what a business does rather than how, and provides nine detailed criteria to help architects correctly identify and map capabilities within a business model.
This article introduces the growing discipline of business architecture, explains its role within enterprise architecture, outlines core domains and their relationships, and presents nine practical modeling techniques supported by BIZBOK and ArchiMate, while also noting available training resources.
The article explains business footprint diagrams, illustrating how business goals, organizational units, functions, and services map to technical components, providing traceability for C‑level stakeholders and highlighting their use in enterprise architecture modeling with UML/BPMN and ArchiMate references.
The Zachman Framework is a comprehensive enterprise ontology that classifies an organization’s architecture using six fundamental questions and multiple stakeholder perspectives, helping businesses model, analyze, and manage complex changes across processes, data, and technology.
