The Open Group Architecture Tool Certification Program includes certification for tools supporting the ArchiMate® Specification, a standard of The Open Group.
Tool Vendor Benefits
The Open Group ArchiMate Tool Certification validates a tool’s conformance to the ArchiMate standard, enhancing credibility and trust among enterprise clients. Certified tools are listed in The Open Group register, increasing visibility. Compliance with the ArchiMate Exchange File Format ensures interoperability across platforms. Certification confirms alignment with the TOGAF EA Framework, reinforcing relevance in broader EA ecosystems. For vendors, it’s a strategic investment that supports marketing, customer confidence, and long-term integration into enterprise architecture framework.
Enterprise Architecture Team Benefits
Using a certified ArchiMate tool gives architecture teams confidence in modeling accuracy and standard compliance. Certified tools support interoperability, enabling model exchange between platforms and teams, thereby preserving investment in models. For organizations adopting the TOGAF framework, certified tools support the concepts and relationships to model TOGAF Enterprise Architectures. Ultimately, certified tools help architects focus on design and strategy rather than troubleshooting, fostering clarity, collaboration, and long-term sustainability in enterprise architecture practices.
Certification Register
How to Apply for ArchiMate Tool Certification
Read the Architecture Tool Certification Policy, ArchiMate Tool Certification Conformance Requirements, the ArchiMate Tool Certification fee schedule, and the combined Certification Agreement and Trademark License Agreement (TMLA). These documents are all available using the links below.
A prerequisite for Tool Certification is that your organization must have an applicable ArchiMate Commercial License.
- Download, print, sign and return the combined Certification and Trademark License agreement.
- Contact The Open Group ArchiMate Certification Authority to confirm your organization in the program.
- You need to prepare supporting documentation for each Tool you wish to have certified. The supporting documentation can be downloaded from the links below.
- When you are done, pay the certification fees.
- Next you must submit the supporting documentation.
- The Certification Authority will then carry out an audit of the supporting documentation and you will be informed of the result.
- Once certified the tool will be listed on the register.
Tool Certification Documentations
- Architecture Tool Certification Policy [PDF]
- ArchiMate Tool Certification and Trademark License Agreement [PDF]
- ArchiMate Tool Certification Fee Schedule [PDF]
- Architecture Tool Certification Registration Form [DOCX]
- ArchiMate 3 Tool Certification Conformance Requirements
- ArchiMate 3 Tool Certification Conformance Statement [DOC]
- ArchiMate 3 Tool Certification Checklist version 3.1[DOC]
For enquiries please contact The Open Group Certification Authority.
Support for the ArchiMate Exchange File Format
ArchiMate 3 tools are required to support the ArchiMate Exchange File format.
ARCHIMATE® MODEL EXCHANGE FILE FORMAT FOR THE ARCHIMATE MODELING LANGUAGE, VERSION 3.1: AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
A Test Model directory is available in the ArchiMate Forum GitLab repository (member login required). The models in this directory must be used for interoperability testing and evidence from Test Model-3.01.xml/Test Model-3.1.xml as appropriate provided.
You must be an ArchiMate Forum member to request access.