Recently, the Okta team traveled to Vegas for Workday’s three-day user conference, Workday Rising. It was a great show where we had the opportunity to highlight a lot of the joint engineering work we have been doing with Workday, and the week kicked off with the huge news of Workday’s $85 million round of funding (and $2 billion company valuation). Congrats to Aneel Bhursi and his team on Workday’s massive success. The company’s on a roll attracting high profile Fortune 1,000 customers, and their success echoes the cloud’s rapid adoption in the enterprise. If there are any doubters who still question the cloud’s prospects, Rising certainly helped silence them. It was inspiring to be surrounded for three days by so many forward-thinking, cloud-first IT folks. Rising ‘11 was a great event — and a testament to the enterprise’s embrace of the cloud. Workday’s only five years old, and.