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ArchiMate business service
A business service represents an explicitly defined exposed business behavior.A business service:
Exposes the functionality of business roles or collaborations to their environment. This functionality is accessed through one or more business interfaces.
Is realized by one or more business processes, business functions, or business interactions that are performed by the business roles or business collaborations, respectively.
Can access business objects.
This element can be visualized on the following ArchiMate Viewpoints:
Basic Viewpoints
Composition
ArchiMate Organization Viewpoint – Aggregated By
ArchiMate Organization Viewpoint – Composed By
ArchiMate Application Platform Viewpoint
ArchiMate Business Layer
ArchiMate Information Structure Viewpoint
ArchiMate Technology Viewpoint
ArchiMate Physical Viewpoint
ArchiMate Layered Viewpoint
Support
ArchiMate Product Viewpoint
ArchiMate Application Usage Viewpoint
ArchiMate Technology Usage Viewpoint
Cooperation
ArchiMate Business Process Cooperation Viewpoint
ArchiMate Application Cooperation Viewpoint
Realization
ArchiMate Service Realization Viewpoint
ArchiMate Implementation and Deployment Viewpoint
Motivation Viewpoints
ArchiMate Stakeholder Viewpoint
ArchiMate Goal Realization Viewpoint
ArchiMate Requirements Realization Viewpoint
ArchiMate Motivation Viewpoint
Strategy Viewpoints
ArchiMate Strategy Viewpoint
ArchiMate Capability Map Viewpoint
ArchiMate Outcome Realization Viewpoint
ArchiMate Resource Map Viewpoint
Implementation and Migration Viewpoints
ArchiMate Project Viewpoint
ArchiMate Migration Viewpoint
ArchiMate Implementation and Migration Viewpoint
ArchiMate Implementation and Deployment Viewpoint
See also
ArchiMate elements