Enterprise Architecture University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW Autumn Semester 2014 Study Programme: MSc Business Information Systems

Use of VP is made available to FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland by the Academic Partner Program from Visual Paradigm for educational purpose.

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 Management
2. Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
3. Business Model Generation
4. Meta-Modeling and Modeling Languages
5. Enterprise Architecture Modeling with ArchiMate
   Views and Viewpoints in ArchiMate
6. Business Architecture
7. Business Motivation Modeling
8. Modeling Business Processes with BPMN
9. Business Process Context
   Organisation Models
   Interactions in BPMN
10. Background: UML Class Diagrams
    Generic and Domain-specific Languages
    Modeling Data, Documents, Products, Applications
11. Business Rules
12. Business Vocabulary
13. Enterprise Architecture Management
14. A Kind of Summary

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