Diagrams

Diagramming as application area

Create and share static, dynamic, and interactive architecture and business diagrams on Dragon1. This includes block diagrams, flowcharts, graph designs, and mind maps, as well as interactive animated scenarios and storyboards.

Once you have created a business diagram, you can publish it and make it available for a select group in your team or publish it publicly for the whole world to see.

Learn to create Business Diagrams

Dragon1 supports you in learning how to create a business diagram.

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View and Monitor Business Diagrams

On Dragon1, you can view business diagrams created by yourself and others. You can leave remarks and notes on business diagrams and view the same diagram from different configurable end-user views (if the author has enabled this feature for the business diagram).

Architecture Diagrams - What is the Value

Enterprise Architecture can be created as a set of views of important aspects of the organization.

These views, often visualized as architecture diagrams, help to cut IT costs, standardize technology, mitigate risks, improve processes, realize strategy, and enable innovation. Stakeholders use these views to inform decisions on various issues and concerns. Project managers and workers use these views to guide their project activities.

Learn to create Architecture Diagrams

Architecture diagrams help communicate and decide which concepts are strategically important for the company to do right and which are not. An architecture diagram illustrates a coherent set of concepts aligned with the organization's strategy.

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If the board and directors of the organization approve this diagram, then every project or innovation in the company will have to align its design and realization activities with this diagram.

Also, progress on implementing concepts and conflicts or problems between concepts can be visualized here.

One of the objectives of the architects will be to create a detailed concept design per concept, showing the principles of the concepts.

Here you can read more about the definition of an Architecture Diagram

Overview of Diagram Types

There are over 250 types of Diagrams to create on Dragon1. Click an example diagram type below to view it live.

  1. Business Diagrams
    1. Balanced Scorecard
    2. Binary Decision Diagram
    3. Block Diagram
    4. Business Model Canvas
    5. Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Diagram
    6. Chemical Chart
    7. Circle Hub Spoke Diagram
    8. Compare & Contrast Diagram
    9. Concept Diagram
    10. Cycle Diagram
    11. Data Flow Diagram
    12. Database Diagram
    13. Entity Relationship Diagram
    14. Family Tree
    15. Fishbone / Ishikawa Diagram
    16. Flowchart
    17. Gantt Chart
    18. Graph Design
    19. Idea Maps
    20. Infographics
    21. KWL Chart
    22. Logic Gate
    23. Mind Maps
    24. Network Diagram
    25. Object Process Model
    26. Organizational Chart
    27. PERT Chart
    28. Site Map
    29. Spider Diagram
    30. Stakeholder Onion Diagram
    31. Story Board
    32. SWOT Diagram
    33. T Chart
    34. Technical (Concept) Drawing
    35. Technical Diagram
    36. Thought Map
    37. TQM - Total Quality Management
    38. UI Mockup
    39. Value Stream Mapping
    40. Venn Diagram
    41. Wire Frames
    42. Work Breakdown Structure
    43. Y Chart
  2. UML Diagrams
    1. Activity Diagram
    2. Class Diagram
    3. Collaboration Diagram
    4. Component Diagram
    5. Deployment Diagram
    6. Object Diagram
    7. Sequence Diagram
    8. State Chart Diagram
    9. Use Case Diagram
  3. Archimate Diagrams
    1. Dependency Viewpoint Diagram
  4. Dragon1 Diagrams
    1. Enterprise Motivation Diagram
    2. Enterprise Architecture Framework Diagram
    3. Business Motivation Diagram
    4. Business Structure Diagram (Logical & Physical)
    5. Business Functions Diagram
    6. Business Domain Diagram
    7. Business Architecture Concepts Diagram
    8. Business Capabilities Diagram
    9. Business Systems Diagram
    10. Business Process Landscape Diagram
    11. Information Structure Diagram (Logical & Physical)
    12. Information Functions Diagram
    13. Information Domain Diagram
    14. Information Architecture Concepts Diagram
    15. Information Capabilities Diagram
    16. Information Systems Diagram
    17. Process/Application Landscape Diagram
    18. Software Application Landscape Diagram
    19. IT Infrastructure Structure Diagram
    20. IT Infrastructure Functions Diagram
    21. IT Infrastructure Domain Diagram
    22. IT Infrastructure Architecture Concepts Diagram
    23. IT Infrastructure Capabilities Diagram
    24. IT Infrastructure Systems Diagram
    25. Enterprise Structure Artist Impression (Functions/Form-map)
    26. Enterprise Meta Model Diagram
    27. Principle Details Diagram
    28. Concept Design Sketch
    29. Concept Storyboard
    30. Migration Scenario
    31. Enterprise Blueprint Diagram
    32. Roadmap Diagram
    33. Solution Diagram
    34. S.P.I.N. Diagram (Software Re-engineering)
    35. Dragon1 Architecture View Layout
  5. Other Diagrams
    1. Floor Plans
    2. OIAm Diagrams

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