The New Era of Decision Making: Aera Technology

Aera Technology's belief, at its core, is helping companies transform. Aera believes in driving beyond digital transformation so that organizations can operate at internet speed and scale in the era of Decision Intelligence. At Aera, the company delivers the Cognitive Technology that enables Decision Intelligence: the Aera Decision Cloud™ that connects organizations with their business and autonomously orchestrates their operations. Digital transformation is changing everything. Some estimate 40% of all jobs will be transformed by artificial intelligence within ten years. This transformation means a shift in financial models, business models, and social structures. Using AI, Aera is reimagining how organizations operate. The technology is built for groups and individuals to succinctly access the data and the collaboration that decisions require.

Aera uses its own technology to move quickly, to inform discussion, and to drive the execution of strategic initiatives. The company is on a mission to make businesses smarter, digital, dynamic, and wildly successful. To achieve this, Aera has brought together a unique group of product visionaries and technology veterans. It is a whole new era, and the company is excited for the future. In this era of digital acceleration, organizations can no longer depend on the processes and technologies that brought them to this point. Businesses were built with different assumptions in their industry, for a different time. Market and operational volatility has dramatically increased the volume, velocity, and complexity of decisions to be made. Even today, decisions are left unmade – there’s simply not enough time or people to make them all.

Scaling decision making across the enterprise requires a different approach. It requires a digital brain that operates in real time, always on, thinking, learning, and autonomous. With Aera, organizations can make every business-critical decision that needs to be made, so they can operate at the speed their customers expect. Aera extracts and harmonizes billions of transactions from complex enterprise systems and external data sources to create an open, composable, and transactional data fabric designed for decision making. Patented data crawlers aggregate data in real-time, with minimal performance impact to source systems. With prepackaged extractors and domain expertise incorporated into a predefined, extensible data catalog, Aera can be ready for organizations to begin augmenting and automating decision making in a matter of weeks, not years.

Intelligence

Aera operationalizes advanced techniques including optimization, predictions, modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) within the decision context. Domain expertise is integrated in patented models with thousands of predefined measures for all areas of the business. Bring your own, build your own, or use pre-packaged algorithms. 100% of operational capabilities needed to predict outcomes are connected and processed in context, real-time, at scale. Aera models the dynamic cognitive processes that underpin human decision making. With its patented intuitive workflows, business rules and intelligent conversational voice interactions, Aera delivers the system continuity required for transparent, explainable recommendations that drive decision making and execution.

Aera is designed to work with you, providing a transparent user experience that gives you full visibility into the data and intelligence behind every recommendation, down to the transaction level. Decisions and actions are available one click, one tap, or one voice command away from the intelligence powering your enterprise.

Technology Attributes

Comprehensive

Aera Decision Cloud integrates the data, intelligence, automation, and engagement you need for Decision Intelligence. It supports all types of decision making, from manual and assisted to augmented and automated.

Composable

Aera Decision Cloud is a flexible, self-service platform that empowers you to model and update decision flows as your business and operational conditions change.

Trusted

Aera Decision Cloud is a system of reference for decision making, designed for the adoption of decision automation. It provides the transparency, auditability, provenance, and data lineage that enable your organization to understand and trust the recommendations generated.

Scalable

Built on internet-scale, cloud-native technology, the Aera Decision Cloud supports all types of decision making in complex global organizations in many industries.

Cognitive Skills^™

Powered by the Aera Decision Cloud^™, Cognitive Skills provide real-time insight, recommendations and predictions. Cognitive Skills deliver prepackaged content, logic, and interactions that augment and automate business decisions. Aera Cognitive Skills^™ are composable capabilities that extend the Aera Decision Cloud^™ to address specific use cases that benefit from improved decision making. These capabilities work by giving contextual recommendations while maintaining full transparency - continuously measuring and learning from both anticipated and actual decision performance. Full transparency leads to trust in automated decisions - a requirement for systemic change.

Each Skill is a self-contained solution for a particular business problem with the following capabilities:

Specific data crawlers needed to aggregate and harmonize information from required systems and put it in a common data model.
Analytics calculations, machine learning models, and simulation models needed for the use case.
Digitized decision flow and logic, including business rules and direct user interaction if needed.
Logic needed to execute decisions back to target systems.

As you add more Skills, you can reuse common core elements and exchange information, making Skills smarter and more efficient over time.

Frederic Laluyaux, President and CEO