Preface

The Open Group

The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards and open source initiatives by fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and mutual respect among our diverse group of 900+ memberships. Our membership includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries.

The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ achieved by:

  • Working with customers to capture, understand, and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices

  • Working with suppliers, consortia, and standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies

  • Offering a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia

  • Developing and operating the industry’s premier certification service and encouraging procurement of certified products

Further information on The Open Group is available at www.opengroup.org.

The Open Group publishes a wide range of technical documentation, most of which is focused on development of Standards and Guides, but which also includes white papers, technical studies, certification and testing documentation, and business titles. Full details and a catalog are available at www.opengroup.org/library.

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN)

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is a collaborative not-for-profit ecosystem formed of leading banks, technology providers, consultants, and academics from all over the globe.

BIAN is created to establish, promote, and provide a common framework for banking interoperability issues and to become and to be recognized as a world-class reference point for interoperability in the banking industry.

For more information refer to www.bian.org.

This Document

This document is The Open Group Guide to ArchiMate® Modeling Notation for the Financial Industry Reference Model— Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). It has been developed and approved by The Open Group and BIAN.

This document is structured as follows:

  • Introduction provides an overview of how the ArchiMate Specification, a standard of The Open Group, can be used to exploit the value of the BIAN Financial Industry Reference Model (BIAN Reference Model) in managing the transition to a digital financial institution

  • The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) introduces the BIAN organization and outlines the intended benefits to the banking industry of combining its BIAN Reference Model with the ArchiMate language

  • BIAN Service Landscape, Version 7.0 introduces the BIAN metamodel as expressed in the ArchiMate 3.0.1 language, explaining how the metamodel supports the construction of the BIAN Reference Model

  • BIAN Business Scenarios and Wireframes introduces the business scenarios and wireframes of the BIAN, which are process-oriented views on its service landscape

  • BIAN Business Object Model Framework describes the Business Object Modeling (BOM) approach, used to enrich the BIAN Reference Model with a reference architecture model for the financial industry

  • Case Study: Archi Banking Group presents the Archibank case study, developed to illustrate the use of the BIAN Reference Model