Understanding Organization View and Business Process Collaboration View in ArchiMate

Organization View is used to describe the structure of organizational units such as enterprises, companies, departments, or even network domains, typically presented in a nested fashion to identify capabilities, authorities, and responsibilities.

The table below summarizes the main aspects of the Organization View.

Stakeholders

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

Concerns

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

Business Process Collaboration View models the main business process flows of an enterprise, providing a high‑level design that gives operations managers insight into dependencies, consistency, integrity, and responsibilities of processes.

The following table details the stakeholders, concerns, purpose, scope, and elements of this viewpoint.

Stakeholders

Process and domain architects, operations managers

Concerns

Dependencies between business processes, consistency, integrity, responsibilities

Purpose

Design, decide

Scope

Hierarchical / multi‑angle

Elements

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

Both viewpoints are illustrated with ArchiMate diagrams (images omitted here) that show how the concepts are visualized in practice.