NORA Meta Model and Architecture

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rihab
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Hi,
Using Essential Open Source , am trying to implement NORA ( National Overall Reference Model) which is an Enterprise Architecture Framework developed by the Digital Government Authority (DGA) in KSA. I begin with the mapping between Nora meta model and Essential meta model.
The concepts to some extent are the same, but the structure is different. I need your help to go further steps.
For example :
NORA Essential
Business Capability Business_Layer > Business_Conceptual > Business_Capability
Business Process Business_Layer > Business_Logical > Business_Process_Type > Business_Process

when we dig deeper looking at the structure defined in both architectures they are different. You can take a look at the attached file for more info and examples.

The main objective of the mapping is to implement NORA in Essential to get the benefit of the different supported views. Is this approach feasible? Can we add the constructs that are not available in Essential? Any similar case study before?

Your valuable contribution is highly appreciated.
Thank you,
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JohnM
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Hi,

We can map to those concepts, some of your mappings aren't quite right, could you provide as an Excel list and we'll update that

Thanks
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rihab
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Hi, JohnM
Thank you for the reply,

You mean to provide NORA constructs in an Excel file? or the same uploaded Doc file as Excel?
Kindly find attached the Excel files of NORA constructs organized by layer along with Doc files of the same documentation.

Best Regards
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JohnM
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The spreadsheets look a bit longer than the pdf, so will take a little time, do you have a priority order you need them done?
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rihab
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Business Architecture and Application Architecture
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rihab
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Hi, any updates?

If you need any thing please reflect back.
Thank you.
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JohnM
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Hi,

We are working through it at the moment, sorry, it's quite extensive so taking a little while. We''ll drop the sheets here as we complete them
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JohnM
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Hi,

Business and Application sheets with mappings for the salmon colour tabs on Business and all tabs for Application.

This is a working document so there are some places where we need some examples to help us work out the best place to map them to the Essential meta model. There are some places where we have a few options which we need to agree internally and we will finalise later. (the amber cells are all work in progress)

Could you provide some examples where we ask for them please.

Thanks
BusinessApplicatioNORA.zip
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rihab
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Hi, JohnM
Thank so much for your time and efforts, I really appreciate it.

I will go through that and try to bring some examples ,

Best Regards
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JohnM
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Some updates, we still need some examples to finalise a few areas
NORA App and Business mapping.zip
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rihab
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Thank you JohnM, appreciated. Working to provide examples.
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rihab
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Hi,

Examples sent by email.

Any updates?

Best regards
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JohnM
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Hi Rihab,

One of the team will come back to you

John
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