ArchiMedes Publication and Integration of Architectural Knowledge

ArchiMedes is a cloud-based architecture tool built upon our WikiXL semantic knowledge management platform. ArchiMedes' core capabilities include publication, enrichment, analysis and integration of architecture knowledge. In its most straightforward implementation, ArchiMedes connects to an architecture model repository and publishes the model contents in a browsable interface, thereby disseminating the work of the architect team to a large target audience. Since the contents are published in a wiki-like structure, clarifications and context information can be added, such as historical notes or considerations and trade-offs in decision making. This makes ArchiMedes a true encyclopaedia instead of just a collection of diagrams. Moreover, the published content is semantically enhanced, which enables further analysis and integration of the architecture knowledge. ArchiMedes can, for example, combine enterprise architecture models with information from an organizational CMDB. This combination creates dynamic, 'live' architecture maps that show a projection of the current state of the system landscape onto the enterprise architecture models. Such a projection extends the architecture from a 'design time' reference model to a 'run time' dashboard.