VR-EA: Virtual Reality Visualization of Enterprise Architecture Models with ArchiMate and BPMN

The digital transformation occurring throughout enterprises results in an increasingly dynamic and complex IT landscape. As the structures with which enterprise architecture (EA) deals become more digital, larger, complex, and dynamic, new approaches for modeling, documenting, and conveying EA structural and relational aspects are needed. The potential for virtual reality (VR) to address upcoming EA modeling challenges has as yet been insufficiently explored. This paper contributes a VR hypermodel solution concept for visualizing, navigating, interacting with ArchiMate and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) models in VR. An implementation demonstrates its feasibility and a case study is used to show its potential.