Authors:
Daniel Maciejewski
and
Nicolas Mayer
Affiliation:
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Keyword(s):
Network Diagram, Enterprise Architecture Model, ArchiMate, Model Transformation, CISCO.
Abstract:
Enterprise Architecture (EA) models propose to capture the activities of an organization, going from its
business aspects to its IT infrastructure. Such an approach is promising to support reasoning on specific
concerns, especially those relying on the business-to-IT stack, such as enterprise transformation, security, IT
investment, etc. However, most of the organizations do not have existing EA models, and are reluctant to
establish them, especially from scratch, mainly due to the length and complexity to do so. Our insight is that
we can leverage on network diagrams, one of the most common kind of models available in organizations, to
generate part of EA models. In this paper, we propose an approach to transform network diagrams into EA
models. In this context, we focus on CISCO as the reference for network concepts, and ArchiMate as the
standard modelling language for EA.