An enterprise architecture is an important instrument to address any organisation. It is a coherent description of products,services,processes in the organisation.The degree of coherence varies between organisations.Recently,organisations tend to focus on the strategy part and introduce new business models that really require high involvement of the integration of technology,the processes and the business itself.Organisations then realise a need for an enterprise architecture to

-aligh IT and Business.

-Control over IT costs.

-reach the expectations of customers. ( Supply versus Demand)

-To create a strategic vision over the organisation when the Information Technology (IT) has become such a powerful force and everything seems to be changing.

-Manage and control organisational changes.

Many frameworks are developed around the world to reach the criteria mentioned above.One of the frameworks that aims to provide the above integration is Archimate.Archimate is a modelling language like UML (Unified Modelling Language ) for describing the enterprise architectures.It visualises the relations which enhances the communication between the stakeholders. Though identifying the structure of each domains ,aligning them,highlighting their interdependencies, reaching the top level of management in any organisation, is possible through a modelling language like UML , archimate does pave a better path through physical visualisation.The general opinion from different attendencies in the 2 day

workshop organised by LJMU (Liverpool John Moores University) is that ‘Archimate is definitely in a reachable position to model their Enterprise Architecture within the institutions’.