Business introduction

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) provides a standardized framework for defining and organizing banking services, aiming to enhance interoperability and reduce integration costs within the financial sector. Its Service Landscape comprises discrete, non-overlapping service domains that encapsulate specific business capabilities, facilitating a modular approach to banking operations.

The Orthogramic Metamodel, on the other hand, offers an open-source business architecture metamodel designed to provide a structured framework for aligning business strategy, capabilities, value streams, policies, stakeholders, information, and performance. This metamodel enables organizations to dynamically map their business structures and operations, supporting real-time strategic alignment.

Integrating BIAN's service-oriented architecture with The Orthogramic Metamodel’s comprehensive business architecture allows for a unified approach to modeling and aligning banking services with overarching business strategies. This interoperability facilitates:

• Semantic Alignment: Ensuring consistent definitions and understanding of business capabilities and services across both frameworks.

• Enhanced Modularity: Leveraging BIAN's discrete service domains within Orthogramic's structured metamodel to promote modularity and reusability.

• Strategic Coherence: Aligning operational services with strategic objectives, enabling more effective governance and decision-making.

By bridging these two frameworks, organizations can achieve a more cohesive and agile enterprise architecture, better equipped to respond to the dynamic demands of the banking industry.

Orthogramic Metamodel – JSON-LD Ontology Summary

This section defines the structured, schema-based representation of business architecture domains used by Orthogramic, with mappings designed for semantic interoperability with external frameworks including BIAN, TOGAF, and http://schema.org .

Overview

• Format: JSON-LD

• Purpose: Enable semantic APIs, business architecture alignment, and integration with banking and enterprise models

• Compatibility: BIAN, http://schema.org , FOAF, ArchiMate

• Version: 1.0.0

• License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Context URI: https://github.com/Orthogramic/Orthogramic_Metamodel/blob/main/interoperability/orthogramic-bian.context.jsonld

Inter-related domains

Capabilities

Defines what an organisation is able to do, independent of how it is done. Serves as the bridge between strategy and operations. Mapped to: bian:BusinessCapability

Services

Represents business or technical offerings delivered to customers, internal stakeholders, or partner systems. Mapped to: bian:ServiceDomain

Stakeholders

Describes people, groups, or institutions that influence or are influenced by the organisation. Mapped to: foaf:Agent

Value Streams

Models the stages of value creation — showing how value flows from initiation to outcome. Mapped to: bian:ValueStream

Initiatives

Captures programs, projects, or major efforts that enable change and implement strategy. Mapped to: bian:InitiativeProgram

Policy

Describes regulatory obligations, internal controls, and formal decision-making rules. Mapped to: bian:PolicyRule

Information

Captures data entities, structures, and custodianship aligned with business capabilities and governance. Mapped to: schema:Dataset (complemented by BIAN data specification constructs)

Performance

Measures outcomes and progress via KPIs and metrics linked to strategic objectives. Mapped to: bian:PerformanceAssessment, bian:PerformanceIndicator

Strategic Response Model (SRM)

Links Triggers, Rationales, and Strategic Responses across domains to support dynamic alignment and decision-making. Mapped to:

• bian:TriggerEvent

• bian:RationaleForChange

• bian:ResponseStrategy

Use in Semantic APIs

This metamodel enables:

• Federated querying of architecture data

• Business-aligned API responses

• Linked data representations of capability maps, governance models, and change strategies

• Interoperability between banking systems (via BIAN) and enterprise architecture platforms