Open the Twin map from the Ask page, pick a service, system or team, and Entelim draws what it connects to, banded by layer, from the model as it stands now. Nobody draws it. For a picture you can hand over, build and save a diagram in the Composer and export it, including as ArchiMate Exchange Format that other modelling tools can open.
Give the acquirer or the auditor a current architecture picture we did not draw by hand
For scale-up CTOs facing a funding round, an audit, or acquisition diligence.
The question
Diligence or an audit asks for the system landscape. The diagram that answers it either does not exist, or was drawn six months ago by someone who has left.
What Entelim answers
The Twin map has a search box ("Type a team, service or system name"). Choose an element and the page shows a Map of its connections in six horizontal bands: Goals, Strategy, Business, Systems, Technology and Delivery. An element whose layer is not recorded goes in a band called "Layer not recorded". Connections that were recorded and ones Entelim worked out are both drawn, and a Show what we worked out switch turns the worked-out ones off. A Hop depth slider from 1 to 5 widens or narrows the map.
Click an element and the Selected element panel shows its name, its Owner (or "Not recorded"), how many things depend on it, and a Why? button. Full detail gives the ArchiMate type and layer. Beneath the drawing, a table lists the same connections as text, with columns for Source, Relationship, Target, Kind, Depth and Owner, and a Centre on this button to move the map to any element in it. An empty map says "Pick a team, service, or system to see what it connects to."
On Ask, every result line has a View on twin map link that opens the map already centred on that element.
For a document you can attach to a data room, the Composer is where pictures are built and kept. Save Viewpoint stores a diagram under a name you choose. The Diagrams library lists every saved diagram in your organisation, with a name search and columns for Name, Solution, Viewpoint, Elements and Updated, and an Open link on each. The Composer's Export menu offers PNG, SVG, PDF, PowerPoint, ArchiMate XML (ArchiMate Exchange Format, which other ArchiMate tools can re-import) and a PDF report, plus Archi, Lucidchart and Mermaid files.
Each element also has an Impact graph page, which draws what depends on it and what it depends on to 1, 2 or 3 hops, with the decisions recorded against it. The Why? panel on Ask and the Twin map links to it.
Who asks it
A CTO or head of engineering answering a data-room request, a security or ISO audit, or an acquirer's technical review.
How to get your answer
- Keep your applications, platforms and relationships in Entelim. Import or add them in Applications and the architecture model.
- Open Ask a question, then click Twin map at the top right.
- Search for the most important system and choose it. Raise the Hop depth until the map covers what the reader needs to see.
- Click the elements the reader will ask about. Open Why? on any line you will have to defend.
- To keep a picture, open the Composer, open a viewpoint or add the elements you want, click Save Viewpoint and give it a name. The Composer will not save an empty canvas.
- Use the Export menu for the format the other side asks for. Find saved work again under Diagrams.
Doing this without Entelim
Someone opens a diagramming tool and redraws the estate from memory and a spreadsheet. It looks good for a week, and nobody can say how complete it is.
Limits
- The Twin map draws one element's connections at a time. It is not a single picture of the whole company.
- It cannot be saved or exported. Saving and exporting happen in the Composer.
- The Twin map does not link into the Composer. A saved diagram is opened from the Diagrams library.
- The map follows connections away from the chosen element. It shows no health signal, and says "Not recorded yet" for health.
- Worked-out connections appear only after they have been calculated. Until then the map shows recorded connections and a notice.
Frequently asked questions
Is the map really live?
Yes. It is requested from the model each time you choose an element, change the depth or toggle the switch. It does not store an image.
Can I give the acquirer a file instead of a login?
Yes. Export a saved diagram from the Composer as an image, PDF, PowerPoint or ArchiMate XML. The Twin map itself needs a sign-in.
What if a system has no connections?
The page says "Nothing is recorded as depending on this yet". It does not invent links.
Related questions and modules
- Digital Twin A digital twin of an organisation is one model of what you run, who owns it and what it costs, that you can question in the AI chat and see on the twin map. Start free.
- Diagrams & Composer A library of the diagrams you have saved, and a composer for building ArchiMate views from your model's elements and exporting them.
- Applications An application portfolio management tool: one inventory of every application with owner, cost, lifecycle and risk, linked to what depends on it. Start free.
- What breaks if this service fails, and who gets called? For scale-up CTOs and VPs of Engineering, 50-500 people.
- Import an ArchiMate model For enterprise architecture teams with years of modelling already done.
Import your model and get a free, cited answer to what breaks if a system fails, in minutes.