Enterprise Architecture: Problems and Potentials of Archimate

Software architecture is an increasingly important subject in software en-gineering. Recent developments in software architecture suggest a broader view at what a software architecture should describe. A recently developed enterprise architecture language is Archimate. Archimate is positioned as a bridge between the different disciplines in an enterprise architecture. We test this claim by recreating an existing architecture description and, as archi-tectural knowledge management is also becoming more and more important, we test whether Archimate supports architectural knowledge management. Several problems of Archimate and the architecture description are identi-fied, and we propose solutions for each problem. Because the problems are relatively small, and Archimate offers some advantages over existing stan-dards, we conclude that Archimate should be the enterprise architecture language of choice