Application Cooperation Viewpoint

The Application Cooperation Viewpoint pattern creates elements a diagram that describe the relationships between applications components  and their locations, the services they provide or utilize and the information that flows between them.

Figure 1. Shows an Application Layer Diagram that contains a number of Locations that contain Application Components that are connected by Dependency relationships.

Discussion
To provide a designing view for enterprise, process, application, and domain architects and others who are concerned with aspects such as relationships and dependencies between applications, orchestration/choreography of services, consistency and completeness, reduction of complexity.

It is typically used to create an overview of the application landscape of an organization. This viewpoint is also used to express the (internal) cooperation or orchestration of services that together support the execution of a business process.

The following is a list of some things you may want to do when working with this pattern.
·	Change the name of the diagram to suit the initiative.
Change the name of the Locations and the Application Components to suit the initiative.
·	Create additional Locations and Application Components and add other relationship as needed.

The following is a list of next steps you may want to perform after working with this pattern.
·	Relate the Locations and Application Components to other elements in the model..
Use the Relationship Matrix to visualize relationships.
Use the collaboration tools such as Discussions, Chat and Reviews to engage other modelers.
Generate documentation of the model and diagram using the automatic document generator. 
Create Maintenance Items such as Issues, Decisions, Changes and Tasks  as required.

Reference
The following help topics will assist you learn about how to work with this pattern.
Archimate Technology
Diagram Layout
Baselines
Element Discussions
Maintenance Items
Tools you may find useful
The following are some of the tools that will be helpful when working with this pattern.
Document Generator
The Document Generator is a powerful facility in Enterprise Architect that allows a Database Engineer or other stakeholder to create high quality corporate or technical documentation directly from the model, suitable for internal or external audiences. For more details see the Documentation help topic.
Specification View
The Specification View can be used as a way of working with the Components and Interfaces particularly when there are a large number of elements as is typically the case when describing a system of any appreciable size. For more details see the Specification View help topic
Relationship Matrix
The Relationship Matrix provides a spreadsheet like view of two groups of elements and the relationships that exist between them. It can be a used as a powerful analysis mechanism to visually indicate how elements are related to each other and to discover which elements are missing relationships. For more details see the Relationship Matrix  help topic.
Traceability Window
The Traceability Window automatically displays the relationships that exist between Use Cases and other model elements including up-process and down-process elements. The traceability tree view can be conveniently expanded to see deeper relationships and elements displayed in the window can be located in all diagrams in which they appear. For more details see the Traceability Window  help topic.

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