The Modern Workplace is a term that was coined by Microsoft (more here) to describe their vision of a virtual workplace where people can participate fully in a work day from anywhere and that facilitates collaboration, devices and services being provisioned on-demand, and a secure way of working. In a Microsoft world, the Modern Workplace includes:
In my mind though, I think of a modern workplace as something more like complete modern ecosystem, that also includes goodies like:
Our goal is to design, deliver and support a clean and simple architecture by applying the following design principles (in order of importance):