Use ArchiMate® shapes to build enterprise architecture diagrams that represent the relationships between business, application, and technology domains across your organization.

ArchiMate® is an open, independent enterprise architecture modeling language standardized by The Open Group. In the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization, ArchiMate® shapes let you model the current and target state of your enterprise using a consistent, industry-standard notation.

ArchiMate® shapes are organized into the following categories in the Shapes palette:

• Implementation and Migration: Shapes for modeling transition states, work packages, deliverables, gaps, and plateaus.
• Relationship Type: Junction shapes (And Junction and Or Junction) for modeling branching and merging relationships.
• Business Layer: Shapes for actors, roles, processes, functions, services, and other business-layer elements.
• Application Layer: Shapes for application components, services, functions, interfaces, and data objects.
• Motivation: Shapes for goals, requirements, drivers, principles, stakeholders, and other motivational elements.
• Physical: Shapes for equipment, facilities, and materials.
• Strategy: Shapes for capabilities, courses of action, resources, and value streams.
• Technology: Shapes for nodes, devices, system software, technology services, functions, and interfaces.

When you connect two ArchiMate® shapes, a toolbar appears on the connector. Use the Relationship type drop-down in the toolbar to set the ArchiMate® 3.2 relationship type — for example, Access, Assignment, Influence, or Serving. For the full list of relationship types and their visual styles, see Shape connector properties in Enterprise Modeling and Visualization.

Connector ports on ArchiMate® shapes are bi-directional. You can use any connector port — top, bottom, left, or right — as either an input or an output when connecting shapes.