Editable Architecture Diagram Templates

Architecture diagram templates allow you to easily create your own architectures using simple icons to represent architecture components. Start with an existing pattern and customize it to your environment, or build your own pattern from scratch using any combination of components.

IBM Design Language - Technical Diagrams

Technical diagrams serve many purposes at IBM. They can be used to describe relationships among the elements of a system, the hierarchy of a certain structure or introduce the idea of an ordering sequence to represent a process flow.

IBM Design Technical Diagram Resources

IBM Cloud Stencils

Create IBM Cloud diagrams using Draw.io tool with IBM Cloud Architecture Stencils. This set of assets is intended to provide IBM Cloud Architecture icons for external customers and business partners. IBM Cloud's approved design tool is Draw.io, however we have also provided Powerpoint (.ppt) and SVG (.svg) files for your convenience.

Powerpoint Stencils

SVG files

drawio stencils

For IBM employees: internal repo

Architecture Icons Public Github

IBM IT Architect Assistant

IBM IT Architect Assistant community edition is a collaborative tool for creating and documenting IT solution architectures. Build diagrams just like the reference architectures in the IBM Hybrid Cloud Architecture Center and then customize them for specific projects or initiatives. You can also create documentation for reviews and other communications.

Request access to IT Architect Assistant

Download the community edition (offline, standalone)

Community edition - terms of use

IT Architect Assistant user guide - community edition

UNICOM System Architect

Reference models and patterns are key enablers for enterprise architecture efforts. They help you think about how your organization can or should work based on what’s happening in other organizations in the industry.

To provide customers with a repository-based enterprise architecture solution for the IBM Hybrid Cloud Architecture Center, UNICOM Systems created a similar template for use with System Architect.

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Legal notes

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