Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Today's information worker relies on a disjointed set of office productivity, content, collaboration, and portal tools. The information workplace (IW) will be much simpler, yet richer than today's tools by incorporating contextual, role-based information from business systems, applications and processes; delivering voice, documents, rich media, process models, business intelligence, and real-time analytics; integrating just-in-time eLearning; and fostering collaboration. Using a service-oriented architecture, the IW will be rich with presence awareness, information rights, and personalization, and it will provide offline and online support to a plethora of devices. As this unfolds, information work will expand beyond traditional knowledge workers.