Shapes to create a modeling diagram

The shapes available in the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization helps you create diagrams.

Available shapes to create a diagram

Shapes are icon representations in the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization. You can use these shapes to create diagrams for your business capability and applications hierarchy.

Following are the different types of shapes available to create diagrams:

• General shapes
• Enterprise Architecture shapes
• ArchiMate® shapes (ArchiMate is a registered trademark of The Open Group)

Note:

You must activate the following plugins to view the respective shapes:

• SAM Foundation plugin to view the Software product shape
• Digital Integration plugin to view the Digital Integration and Digital Interface shapes
• PPM Standard plugin to view the Project shape
• CMDB CI Class Models (app-cmdb-content) plugins to view the SDLC component shape

Table 1. General shapes

Shape	Name
	Actor
	Arrow
	Chevron
	Circle
	Cylinder
	Diamond
	Double ended arrow
	Eight pointed star
	Five pointed star
	Half eclipse
	Junction
	Octagon
	Parallelogram
	Pentagon
	Rectangle
	Speech bubble
	Square
	Sticky note
	Text box
	Triangle

Table 2. Enterprise Architecture shapes

Shape	Name
	Application
	Application Service
	Business Application
	Business Capability
	Business Process
	Business Service
	Business Unit
	Computer
	Demand
	Departments
	Digital Integration
	Digital Interface
	Dynamic CI Group
	Hardware Model
	Information Object
	SDLC Component
	Server
	Service Portfolio
	Software Product
	Technical Service
	Technical Service Offering

Table 3. ArchiMate shapes

Shape	Name
	Application component
	Application interface
	Application service
	Business process
	Capability
	Data object
	Node
	Product
	Technology collaboration