In addition to TOGAF diagrams and definitions, System Architect provides a complement of tools that fully support TOGAF modeling.
TOGAF pane of explorer
The Explorer (Browser) has a TOGAF 9-specific pane that will automatically group TOGAF.
TOGAF Framework Browser
The TOGAF Framework Browser provides an alternative way to navigate TOGAF information. It is built on the seven ADM phases and the deliverables of each.
If you click any circle in the TOGAF Framework Browser, dialog boxes open that provide access to the applicable diagrams, definitions, and matrices for that phase.
Diagram types
A core objective of TOGAF is to guide you in designing the following:
▪Business Architecture
▪Technical Architecture
▪The Architecture Building Blocks used in constructing both architectures
▪Views of both architectures (this is facilitated in System Architect via reports)
To enable you to build these artifacts, System Architect provides the following TOGAF-specific diagrams:
▪Application and User Location Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Application Communication Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Business Footprint Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Business Service Information Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Class Hierarchy Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Data Entity/Data Component Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Data Dissemination Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Event Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Goal/Objective/Service Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Platform Decomposition Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Project Context Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
▪Software Distribution Diagram — Explorer diagram of applicable type
These are in addition to the large set of other diagram sets that System Architect normally supports, such as the UML diagram set, logical and physical data model diagrams, and business modeling diagrams.
Definition types
The TOGAF option adds the following definition types to the core System Architect set:
▪Project
▪Person
▪Statement of Architecture Work
▪Request For Architecture Work
▪Business Architecture
▪Technical Architecture
▪Architecture Contract
▪Architecture Building Block
▪Product Information
▪New Technology Report
▪Impact Analysis
▪Solution Building Block
▪Business Scenario
▪Assumption
▪Principle
▪Architecture Standard
▪Business Constraint
▪Business Goal
▪Criterion
▪Issue
▪Risk
▪Business Driver
▪Policy
▪Business Process Domain
New for TOGAF 9:
▪Actor/Role
▪Boundary
▪Capability Functions
▪Contract — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Governance property set turned on (in Advanced properties)
▪Control — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Process Modeling
▪Data Component (Logical/Physical) — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Data
▪Data Mapping — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Data
▪Driver — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Motivation
▪Entity/Application Component
▪Environment
▪Exchange
▪Functional Requirement
▪Gap
▪Located Actor / Role
▪Location
▪Means
▪Migration
▪Model Element
▪Non - Functional Characteristic
▪Platform Service — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Infrastructure Consolidation
▪PRM Measurement Indicator — available with iRMA
▪Properties
▪Service Quality — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Governance
▪Stakeholder Group
▪Stakeholder Position
▪Stakeholder/Viewpoint
▪Target System
▪Technology Component (Logical/Physical) — available with TOGAF 9 Extension: Infrastructure Consolidation
▪Use Case Scenario
▪Work Package
These diagram and definition types are described in detail, and within the context of their use, in this help system.
TOGAF matrices
Matrices are accessed in the Matrix Browser, which you can open from the View menu. The TOGAF page of the Matrix Browser contains the following matrices:
▪Actor to Business Service
▪Actor to Competency
▪Actor to Organization Unit
▪Actor to Role -- used in Phase B of the ADM
▪Actor/Application Component Matrix
▪Application Component to Application Component (Interface)
▪Application Component/Location Matrix
▪Business Goal vs Business Objective
▪Business Goal vs Requirement
▪Business Ownership -- used in Phase B of the ADM
▪Business Objective vs Requirement
▪Business Service Communication
▪Business Service Dependency
▪Business Service provides access to Function
▪Business Service to Application
▪Business Service to Entity
▪Business Service to IS Service
▪Business Service to Logical Application Component
▪Business Service to Logical Technology Component
▪Business Service to Platform Service
▪Business Service to Technology
▪Entity to Actor
▪Entity to Logical Data Component
▪Function to Application Component
▪Goal to Organization Unit
▪Location to Actor
▪Location to Physical Application Component
▪Location to Physical Technology Component
▪Logical Data Component to Physical Data Component
▪Organization Unit owns Business Services
▪Organization Unit owns Functions
▪Physical Application Component to Physical Technology Component
▪Requirement vs ABB
▪Requirement vs SBB
▪Role to Competency
▪Role to Function
▪Role to Logical Application Component
▪SBB vs ABB
▪Stakeholder Map Matrix -- used in Phase A of the ADM
▪Stakeholder Position Matrix
▪System/Data Matrix -- used in Phase B of the ADM
▪System/Technology -- used in Phase D of the ADM
▪TRM Component vs ABB
▪TRM Component vs SBB
TOGAF reports
You have several options for generating TOGAF reports.
▪Internal reports
▪IBM Rational Publishing Engine reports for TOGAF
▪iRMA reports for TOGAF
Internal reports
The TOGAF internal reports listed below are available by selecting Reports > Word Reports > TOGAF 9. Each report publishes appropriate model information to Microsoft Word.
▪Architecture Building Block (ABB) Report
▪Business Architecture Report
▪Impact Analysis Report
▪Request for Architecture Work Report
▪Solution Building Block (SBB) Report
▪Statement of Architecture Work Report
▪Technical Architecture Report
You can configure the output settings on each of the reports. You can also customize the default report templates.
iRMA reports for TOGAF
If you have installed and enabled integrated Reference Model Architect (iRMA), you can access the Technology Standards Catalog. The Technology Standards Catalog uses the Technical Reference Model (TRM) reports provided by iRMA and available in the Reports menu. The Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) TRM provides a foundation to describe the standards, specifications, and technologies supporting the secure delivery, exchange, and construction of business, or Service, components and e-Gov solutions.
IBM Rational Publishing Engine for TOGAF
The Report Server Manager generates files from System Architect to create reports with the IBM Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio, which features concurrent document generation to multiple formats from a single template. You can generate Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF, HTML, and XSLfo reports. Use the reporting tool to create composite reports from multiple data sources, and be able to create one report with data from different encyclopedias, or from different Workspaces in a single encyclopedia.
The following TOGAF report templates are available:
▪Business Services.dta
▪Business Services and Associated Logical Application Components.dta
For more information, see “Generating live reports for SQL server encyclopedias” in the “Integrating with Rational Publishing Engine” section of the online help.