Part 1: Instructions

As you go about answering the questions, please keep in mind the following:

First, enter the name, and organization of the author of this completed Conformance Statement (the "Applicant"), along with the name and version of the tool to which this statement refers.  Please submit a separate conformance statement for each major tool version.

Identifying Information
Applicant Name Organization Tool Name and Major Version
Ivan Kudibal Hewlett-Packard HP Enterprise Maps 1.00 and later

Then, review and complete Part 2: Conformance Requirements and Part 3: Recommended Capabilities below.

The second row under the heading is labeled "Explanation" In the right-hand column of each of these rows, please describe concisely:


Part 2: Conformance Requirements

For certification, a tool must fulfill all of the requirements as specified in the tables below.

2.1 Concept Coverage

2.1.1
A conforming product shall support all of the concepts defined in the ArchiMate specification Chapters 3, 4, and 5 (Core), Section 10.2 (Motivation extension), and section 11.2 (Implementation & Migration extension).
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM is a repository that fully supports all concepts from Business, Application and Technology Layers including Motivation extension and Implementation & Migration extension. All information types are defined in the HP EM repository meta - model called SDM.

2.2 Relationship Coverage

2.2.1 A conforming product shall allow the ArchiMate concepts to be connected by means of the relationships defined in the ArchiMate Specification Chapter 7 and section 10.3, according to the constraints in Appendix B.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None) Full
Explanation HP EM supports structural, dynamic and other relationships, all fully defined in the SDM.

2.2.2 For each supported ArchiMate relationship as defined in requirement 2.2.1 above,  if the relationship applies to multiple combinations of ArchiMate concepts, the user of a conforming product shall be able to reuse the same relationship symbol and method to connect  each supported combination of concepts as denoted by their concept symbols.  For example, ArchiMate defines the association relationship for nearly all pairs of ArchiMate concepts.  However, the user of a conforming product shall be able to use a single line symbol to connect all pairs of concepts for which ArchiMate defines the association relationship.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM can join any of two concepts by any relation. Relations that are not ArchiMate - compliant are highlighted and marked as non - compliant. All the non - compliant relationships can be configured as derived relationships. The relationships can be defined via third party modeling tool, repository form, or visualized via internal navigator.

2.3 Language Notation

2.3.1 A conforming product shall implement the vocabulary, notation, syntax and semantics of the visual modeling language described in Chapters 3-7, Chapters 10-11, and Appendix A of the ArchiMate Specification.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None) Full
Explanation HP EM implements ArchiMate vocabulary, notation, syntax, and semantics.

2.3.2 A conforming product shall support nesting as an alternative representation of relationship types as described in sections 7.1.1, 7.1.2 and 7.1.3 of the ArchiMate Specification.  The conforming product shall clearly indicate which relationships are defined by each nesting instance, and, in updatable views,  shall enable user control of relationships to be created, modified, or deleted.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM converts nesting to proper relation types from third party modeling tool during synchronization. The nesting is always considered as a standard relation in HP EM.

2.3.3 A conforming product shall ensure that the graphical notation used for ArchiMate concepts and relationships remains unambiguously compliant with the ArchiMate Specification even after changes to the size, proportion, or color of modeling symbols.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM uses ArchiMate graphical notation for all ArchiMate elements. The symbols are in raster and vector format where scaling is required.

2.4 Viewpoint Support

2.4.1 A conforming product shall support all the viewpoints specified in sections 8.4, 10.5 and 11.5 of the ArchiMate Specification by predefining them or by enabling ordinary or specially privileged users to define them.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM 1.00 implements several basic viewpoints like Introductory Viewpoint out of the box . HP EM includes a viewpoint designer that can edit or build new viewpoints. The viewpoints can be used for interactive impact and dependency analysis.

2.4.2 A conforming product shall support design viewpoints both within and across ArchiMate layers and extensions, including a comprehensive viewpoint, in which all of the ArchiMate concepts and relationships are available.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM comes with viewpoint designer. It can define new customized viewpoints and select all or subset of ArchiMate concepts and relevant relationships across all layers.

2.4.3 A conforming product shall reuse objects from a single underlying model in multiple views. Specifically, any changes to objects, object properties, or relationships in one view shall be reflected in all views that present the changed objects, object properties, or relationships.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation All the views in HP EM are generated from common architecture repository. In case of any change all newly opened views are updated.

2.4.4 A conforming product shall allow for different graphical notations for an object in different views.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM viewpoints are customizable to change graphical notation.

2.4.5 A conforming product shall track the occurrences of objects in different views
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM tracks all the object dependencies and meta-data informations from all synchronized views. Occurrence of an object in views inside integrated third party modeling tool is tracked by this tool.

2.5 Language Extension Mechanisms

2.5.1 A conforming product shall permit the users to add attributes to ArchiMate concepts and relationships  as described in section 9.1 of the ArchiMate Specification.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM provides a workbench tool to create SDM extensions that can extend basic ArchiMate meta-model with new attributes, relationships, and specializations.

2.5.2 A conforming product shall permit users to define specializations of ArchiMate concepts as described in section 9.2 of the ArchiMate Specification.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM provides a workbench tool to create SDM extensions that can extend basic ArchiMate meta-model with new specializations.

Part 3: Recommended Capabilities

3.1 Concept Coverage

3.1.1 A conforming product may optionally provide predefined specializations of the ArchiMate concepts according to section 9.2 of the ArchiMate Specification
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Partial
Explanation HP EM provides a workbench tool to create SDM extensions that can extend basic ArchiMate meta-model with all the specializations. Some specializations are already defined due to out of the box integrations with external tools (PPM, uCMDB).

3.1.2 A conforming product may optionally support concepts that are neither defined within ArchiMate nor are specializations of the ArchiMate concepts as long as they do not obstruct the use of ArchiMate.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM meta-model already supports concepts that are not defined by ArchiMate standard. Any new concept can be defined via workbench tool.

3.2 Relationship Coverage

3.2.1 A conforming product may optionally provide predefined specializations of ArchiMate relationships according to section 9.2 of the ArchiMate Specification.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Partial
Explanation HP EM workbench can extend SDM by creating specialized relationships. However, new specialized relation does not inherit properties of generic relation as SDM does not implement relationships as objects with inheritance.

3.2.2 A conforming product may optionally support relationships that are not defined within the ArchiMate Specification as long as the product does not require the use of such relationships to develop an ArchiMate model.  
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM workbench supports creation of non-ArchiMate concepts/relationships in SDM.

3.3 Language Notation

3.3.1 A conforming product may optionally support alternative notations for the concepts and relationships described in the ArchiMate Specification.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM fully supports alternative notations. Proper transformation rules need to be configured inside the product in advance.

3.4 Other Capabilities

3.4.1 If a conforming product supports modeling frameworks and languages other than ArchiMate, it may optionally provide the same capabilities for ArchiMate as it does for the other supported modeling frameworks and languages.
Applicant Responses
Tool Conformance (Full, Partial, None)  Full
Explanation HP EM supports any modeling framework that can be mapped to ArchiMate. Proper transformation rules need to be configured inside the product in advance. HP EM always transforms all the objects into ArchiMate and SDM extensions.

 

4 Revision History

Revision Date of Completion Reason for Revision
1.0 January 2012 Initial version of the  ArchiMate 2 Tool CSQ