Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri: Machine Learning More Disruptive than Cloud

Warning that businesses that ignore machine learning will "be left in the dust," Workday CEO and longtime cloud evangelist Aneel Bhusri said yesterday that machine learning will become even more disruptive than the cloud computing he's helped turn into a global phenomenon. Those would be strong words from any executive. But when they come from Bhusri--one of the leading advocates of and evangelists for cloud computing over the past 14 years--they dramatically underscore the scale and scope of ML's impact on the business world. In his keynote address opening his company's annual Workday Rising customer conference, Bhusri pegged ML as one of the three top-priority areas at fast-growing Workday as it gets closer to topping $1 billion in quarterly revenue. Bhusri's pointed and powerful focus on the ubiquitous role machine learning is playing at Workday comes at a critical time for the rapidly growing high-flier, which is #8 on my Cloud Wars Top 10 ranking.