Archimate is simple but comprehensive enough to provide a good structuring mechanism for architecture domains, layers, and aspects. Archimate incorporates modern ideas of the service orientation paradigm. Although it intentionally resembles the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the ArchiMate modeling notation is intuitive and much lighter than currently proposed by UML 2.0. The two enterprise architecture standards of The Open Group TOGAF and ArchiMate complement each other and can be used well in combination. Tool support for the ArchiMate language is already commercially available.