BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) and the Archimate® Modeling Language
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2019-07-11

Expressing the BIAN® Reference Model for the Banking Industry in the ArchiMate® Modeling Language

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) published version 8.0 of its financial industry reference architecture. This provides a comprehensive model of the business capabilities, business scenarios, service domains and business objects used in banking and other financial services.

To foster its adoption, BIAN version 8.0 has been expressed in a standard notation with the ArchiMate® 3 language. 

The core of the BIAN reference model is its Service Landscape. This consists of discrete non-overlapping building blocks of business capacity that exchange services. Such a building block is called a service domain and is best represented in the ArchiMate language using the Capability concept. The interactions between the service domains realize the business activities that make a bank a bank. On top of this Service Landscape sits the Capability Landscape, the top level of which is shown below. As you can see, it also uses the ArchiMate Capability concept.

Presenter: 
Patrick Derde is a Managing Partner, Consultant and Trainer of Envizion. He is a Cobit 5, TOGAF® 9.2, ArchiMate® 3.1 and BIAN certified enterprise architect with more than 25 years experience in the different domains of enterprise architecture in financial institutions, Retail, Government, and Utilities.  In 2019, Patrick became lead architect of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) where he is responsible for the development of the BIAN Reference Information Architecture, the BIAN Architecture Repository.