The Metamodel
The Orthogramic Metamodel provides a structured, consistent framework for representing the architecture of an organisation across strategic, operational, and supporting dimensions. It serves as the foundation for parsing, classifying, and synthesising business documentation into actionable insight.
The metamodel is composed of three key sections:
Domains
The domains represent the core concepts of business architecture. Each domain corresponds to a critical area of organisational structure or behaviour, such as Capabilities, Strategies, Stakeholders, and Information. These are the primary building blocks that Orthogramic uses to interpret business documentation and synthesise a holistic view of the enterprise.
Each domain has its own schema, attributes, and relationships, and is designed to align closely with the needs of enterprise planning, transformation, and performance tracking.
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Extensions
Extensions enrich and support the core domains. They provide cross-cutting constructs such as Tags, Comments, and Relationships that enhance usability, traceability, and governance. While domains model the "what" of the organisation, extensions often support the "how"—how content is organised, linked, interpreted, and governed.
These structures are critical to enabling collaboration, version control, and consistent semantics across the organisation's architecture artefacts.
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Coverage-related extensions
The coverage-related extensions provide a goal-setting and measurement framework to assess how well each business domain is documented and understood across the organisation. These extensions support maturity modelling, strategic prioritisation, and alignment tracking by capturing expected levels of coverage and comparing them to actual performance.
This group includes:
CoverageExpectation– target maturity levels for each domainCoverageStatus– actual coverage derived from analysisCoverageTemplate– reusable sets of expectations for industry or sizeOrganizationGoal– domain weighting and tolerance settings
Together, these extensions enable Orthogramic to deliver dynamic insight into how well the organisation's architecture aligns with its strategic intent.
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