Enterprise Architecture

University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Spring Semester 2014

Study Programme: MSc Business Information Systems


Visual Paradigm offers FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland VP-UML, Logizian, AG for educational use through the VP Academic Partner Program.

This course consists of lecture, exercises and an accompanying case study.

Literature, exercises and case study description are available for registered students at the Moodle course
(restricted access - for participants only)

Topics

  1. Introduction into Enterprise Architecture: Business-IT Alignment and Agility
  2. Architecture and Architecture Description
  3. Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
  4. Business Model Generation
  5. Enterprise Architecture Modeling with ArchiMate
    Views and Viewpoints in ArchiMate
  6. Business Architecture
  7. Business Motivation Modeling
  8. Modeling Business Processes and their Context
    Organisation Models
    Interactions in BPMN
  9. Modeling Data and Documents with UML Class Diagrams
  10. Modeling Products and Application Models
  11. Meta-Modeling
  12. Business Rules
    Modeling Business Rules
    Making Business Rules operational
  13. Enterprise Architecture Management

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