Beyond ERP: Cognitive Technology and AI for Decision-Making, with Fred Laluyaux CEO Aera Technology

What is cognitive technology? Fred Laluyaux, CEO of Aera Technology, tells CXOTalk about AI, machine learning, and the self-driving enterprise that brings data from multiple systems to make decision-making faster and more reliable.
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“What we’re building is this new generation of applications that are following the same characteristic, real-time and always on, connected outside and in, thinking in autonomous. That’s the high-level principle of Aera - very smart software that has some level of autonomy,” Laluyaux says.
“The nature of a business is fairly complex. We are realizing, basically, the promise of the ERP from 30 years ago by actually truly bringing all this transactional data into a single level. You could say that, in a way, we are fulfilling, finally, the promise of the ERP by removing the complexity of these different systems, bringing all this data into the cloud, into a normalized environment, and having a single, logical process, which we call the decision process mapping. We can map how decisions are being made around demand optimization, planning, and so on and so forth, and automate that in real time. In a way, we’re actually fulfilling that initial promise.”
Laluyaux is an entrepreneur who founded his first company at age 23. Before launching Aera, he was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. Before that, he held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG software.

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