A Serious Introduction to the ArchiMate® Enterprise Architecture Modeling LanguageMastering ArchiMate is a book about the ArchiMate® Enterprise Architecture Modeling Language, which is an open standard and a Registered Trade Mark of The Open Group. This book gives an introduction to the language and then goes on to show you many differ- ent patterns for its use. From Business to Infrastructure, from Risk & Security to Application Exploitation and Maintenance.The first edition was published in 2012 and quickly became widely used. The Open Group even pub- lished a white paper “ArchiMate, Understanding the Basics” that was almost literally taken from the ArchiMate Basics chapter of the first edition of this book.This second edition has twice the diagrams in a book roughly one and a half times the pages of the first edition. There are several new subjects, like linking ArchiMate to BPMN. It has been updated to ArchiMate 2.1.Gerben Wierda (1961) is Lead Architect of APG Asset Management, one of the largest Fiduciary Managers in the world. He has overseen the construction of one of the largest single ArchiMate models in the world to date. He holds an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Groningen and an MBA from RSM Erasmus, Rotterdam.