AIDM also needs to be able to offer differentiated views ( often diagrams ) to various stakeholders, introducing a 3rd dimension with Partitions, Pillars and Layers
Different Pillars enabling to handle the big variety of contents, from business architecture to Information and Technology models, and their shared nature across many users, a rigorous internal organization of the repository.
Different Layers to include 3 technology platform-independent layers at the higher levels, and the Physical, platform-specific layer(e.g. XSD-specific layer whose models are automatically generated from the previous layers.
For a given pillar, it is suggested to model layers top-down, modelling high level before full detail, and platform-independent business models before platform-specifics
Each model artifact will be located in a specific pillar and layer.
