ArchiMate Tool

An Architect without a Repository Tool is like a bookkeeper using Excel

Dynamic EA models

Dragon1 is a SaaS platform for enterprise architecture with a suite of web applications.

These applications together can be used as a generic EA Tool, but also as a specialized ArchiMate Tool. You can model in v2.1 and v3.0 with rules enforced during the modeling or checked afterward.

Use Dragon 1 to create dynamic Architecture Diagrams, ArchiMate, TOGAF Views, Viewpoints, and UML models.

Use Dragon1 as your ArchiMate Tool for modeling beautiful static and interactive Architecture Diagrams and Viewpoints.

Example of a Gap Analysis of business architecture.

Main Benefits and Features

Dragon 1 as ArchiMate Software Tool offers what no other software tool offers:

• Modeling your Architecture Viewpoints online

• Creating Interactive Diagrams (Click Through, Tracking and Tracing, Popup Dialogs)

• Publishing your views with workflow and comment features to any device

• Use Robots, Drones, Technologies, and Activities as extensions in your diagrams

You see it! On Dragon1, we take the next step.

Not only can you model your diagrams. You can also publish them and have stakeholders provide feedback via comments they add to the diagram. You can even attach a workflow to your diagrams or communicate the latest updates and changes to your model, view, viewpoint, or diagram.

New technologies are already waiting on your doorstep. Sooner or later, every organization will be incorporating Robots and Drones in their products, services, and processes.

With Dragon 1, you are ready for the future. Use Robots, Drones, and Technology as modeling concepts in your architecture diagrams and viewpoints.

Dragon1 Enterprise Architecture Tool. Purchase your Dragon1 PRO user license here, and later today, you will have created your first static or dynamic architecture diagrams.

Your starting point is the Get Started on the Help and Learn.

Dragon1 Loves ArchiMate

Do you have a single XML file or a repository with many Archimate files?

Why use Dragon 1 as your ArchiMate Tool?

The best EA solution for online architecture modeling

ArchiMate Tool uses Dragon 1, an online modeling & software tool, to create standard Viewpoints and Diagrams. An online software tool used by Enterprise Architects all over the world. It allows you to create static and interactive models and import/export with other architecture modeling tools via XMI/XML.

You can Manage with Architecture

Maybe the best feature of Dragon1 as an EA Solution is that you can manage with your architecture models. You can create interactive click-through diagrams with color, figure indicators, and popups showing background information. With this, you can turn your EA diagrams into Tablet PC report views.

About ArchiMate

ArchiMate is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture managed by The Open Group. It supports the design, analysis, modeling, and visualization of architecture in and across organizational domains, from business to applications to technology and vice versa.

The unique option is to combine pure Archi Mate with other languages and meta models like TOGAF, BPMN, and UML. You can decide what powerful parts of languages you combine into new modeling languages.

Compliant to ArchiMate 2.1 and 3.0

Dragon 1 smartly supports you by using versions 2.1 and 3.0 of the modeling language, the latest version, to create the best Viewpoints and Views possible for your architecture. You can work individually and as a team to create models, views, viewpoints, and diagrams.

The platform provides the unique option of doing strict modeling and loose modeling. Strict modeling means the software prevents you from trespassing under language modeling rules. Loose modeling means that the software allows you to model anything you want in the way you want it. Afterward, you can still check compliance with the modeling language.

Dynamic Views and Viewpoints

Viewpoints and Views are important to the Archimate language. Viewpoints are defined as a point where you are looking from (a certain job or role) towards something. Views are defined as what you see when looking from a viewpoint. Examples of defined viewpoints in ArchiMate are: introductory viewpoint, organization viewpoint, business viewpoint, process viewpoint, application viewpoint, and infrastructure viewpoint.

Dragon 1 lets you work smartly and is unique using ArchiMate. You create models existing of related data entities. Next, you define viewpoint rules. Then, you apply those viewpoints with their rules to models, which results in views. This way, the views are automatically changed if you change data that is part of a model. You don't draw your viewpoints and views but define and generate views.

ArchiMate Modeling Channel

Suppose you are stuck as a user. You have this writer's block as an Architect. Just check out the ArchiMate modeling channel. Fellow software users have created models, viewpoints, and views and published them publicly in the channel. And maybe, in time, you will also contribute to the Dragon 1 community.

Context Sensitive Help

If you want, you are provided with help on modeling in ArchiMate. The definitions for the modeling concepts, examples of models, allowed and disallowed relationships, and examples of views and viewpoints. Everything that is part of the language is right there under a button.

Press the help button, and you will automatically get the ArchiMate help page related to the concept, viewpoint, or view you are busy with. Also, the matrix of relationships and the ArchiMate metamodel plus its extension are one click away.

Architecture Repository

The Architecture Repository is the application to enter and import data and entities and create relationships between your data entities. The Architecture Repository helps you to keep your data managed, clean, and available for modelling. Because ArchiMate is about viewpoints and views, you need extra or rich data in attributes to create (or better generate) meaningful viewpoints and views.

Diagrams with only names of applications and processes are not that interesting. The Architecture repository allows you to enter as many attributes as you like for any data entity, such as photos and videos, documents and texts, figures, and facts. Anything to create meaningful views in the end.

Another important feature of the Architecture Repository is the ability to extend modeling languages with shapes, rules, constraints, and roles so they fit your situation and let discussions take place at the right time by the right people on how to apply a standard.

You can import and define Modeling Language Shapes in your own Shapes Collection, new Concepts, extend the Meta Model of the Modeling Language, and store naming conventions rules.

Visual Designer

The Visual Designer is the application to create, visualize, and generate metamodels, models, viewpoints, views, and scenarios. Dragon 1 works in a unique way with a visualization canvas that is connected to a view and a view being a filter of a model.

In the Visual Designer, you draw shapes on the visualization canvas, just like you are used to in many other drawing tools. But they are smart shapes.

Visual Items are like post-its that show configured shapes based on entities of data that are available in a stream flowing to your canvas. You can also set the pattern in the shapes drawn per visual item on the canvas.

This way of working allows you to draw visualization templates that generate a view-based visualization. When the data in the model changes, you don't need to do anything to change the visualization template. Automatically, this gets updated.

Add Value to your Company through ArchiMate

Enjoy working with Dragon1 as your ArchiMate Data Modelling Tool!

If you are excited to use Dragon 1 as ArchiMate Tool, create a free trial account (no credit card required!). If you have any questions, please ask them via info@dragon1.com.