Environment and Location Diagram in Enterprise Architecture: UML/BPMN EAP Profile and Archimate Overview
The article explains how environment and location diagrams map applications to physical sites, defines key UML/BPMN EAP elements such as headquarters, site locations, servers, workstations, applications, interactive components, and class relationships, and illustrates these concepts with an Archimate diagram while also providing community links.
Environment and location diagrams illustrate which applications reside in which locations, the technologies used, and where business users interact with the applications, also showing non‑production environments such as development and pre‑production.
The UML/BPMN EAP profile defines several elements:
Headquarters location : the geographic location of enterprise elements such as organizational units, hardware, participants.
Site location : similar to headquarters but for additional sites.
Server equipment : a hardware platform that can connect to other devices and host application components.
Workstation : a workstation connected to the information system where application components can be deployed.
Application : may represent legacy applications, off‑the‑shelf products, or assembled component groups.
Interactive application component : a top‑level component managing interaction with external users, typically a GUI such as a web interface.
Relationship between two classes : an association with a name, role names at each end, and cardinalities.
The Archimate diagram (shown below) embeds devices (servers, workstations) into deployed locations, and application components are embedded into those devices.
For further discussion, the author provides links to a knowledge community, WeChat, QQ groups, and various social media platforms.
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