Understanding Business Footprint Diagrams in Enterprise Architecture
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.
A business footprint diagram describes the relationships among business goals, organizational units, business functions, and services, and maps these functions to the technical components that provide the required capabilities.
The diagram provides clear traceability between technical components and the business goals they satisfy, while also demonstrating ownership of the identified services.
A business footprint diagram only shows the key facts that link organizational unit functions to delivered services and serves as a communication platform for senior (CxO) stakeholders. It must focus on current business interests; depending on the focus, it can concentrate on one or more application components (needs improvement) or on one or more business functions.
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Original source: https://www.togaf-modeling.org/models/business-architecture/business-footprint-diagrams.html
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