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ArchiMate business contract
A business contract represents a formal or informal specification of an agreement between a provider and a consumer that specifies the rights and obligations associated with a product and establishes functional and non-functional parameters for interaction.
An ArchiMate business contract element can be used to model:
A contract in the legal sense,
An informal agreement associated with a product, and/or
A Service-Level Agreement (SLA).
This element can be visualized on the following ArchiMate Viewpoints:
Basic Viewpoints
Composition
ArchiMate Business Layer
ArchiMate Layered Viewpoint
Support
ArchiMate Product Viewpoint
ArchiMate Application Usage Viewpoint
Cooperation
ArchiMate Business Process Cooperation Viewpoint
Realization
ArchiMate Service Realization Viewpoint
ArchiMate Implementation and Deployment Viewpoint
Motivation Viewpoints
ArchiMate Requirements Realization Viewpoint
Strategy Viewpoints
ArchiMate Strategy Viewpoint
ArchiMate Capability Map Viewpoint
ArchiMate Outcome Realization Viewpoint
ArchiMate Resource Map Viewpoint
See also
ArchiMate elements