The Aera Decision Cloud™

The digital brain of your organization, making and executing intelligent business decisions in real time. It delivers outcomes at the speed and scale of your business.

In this era of digital acceleration, you can no longer depend on the processes and technologies that brought you to this point. Your business was built with different assumptions in your 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, your organization can make every business-critical decision that needs to be made, so you can operate at the speed your customers expect.

Pillars of Aera Decision Cloud™

Digitizing, augmenting, and automating decision making requires the integration and orchestration of the four foundational pillars of Decision Intelligence: Data, Intelligence, Automation, and Engagement.

Data

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 you 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 our pre-packaged algorithms. 100% of operational capabilities needed to predict outcomes are connected and processed in context, real-time, at scale.

Automation

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.

Engagement

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.

The Aera Decision Cloud

Aera Decision Cloud is a cloud-native platform that delivers the agility, velocity, and intelligence required for companies to make decisions in the new digital world of continuous disruption.

Aera Decision Cloud goes beyond simple reports and KPIs, giving high level recommendations of actions that optimize business objectives against complex, inter-related constraints and real-time data. It becomes a virtual member of your team, acting like a trained digital analyst delivering well-researched and informed business recommendations that can be executed on your behalf.

Components of the Aera Decision Cloud

Cognitive Operating System™

The Cognitive Operating System is the technology foundation for the Aera Decision Cloud. It is a comprehensive, open cloud-scale platform that integrates and orchestrates the data, intelligence, automation, and engagement required to accelerate decision making. Designed to be enterprise architecture-friendly, it works with existing cloud and on-premise enterprise solutions with minimal impact. Enterprises can transform their decision making in a matter of weeks, not years.

Cognitive Skills™

Aera Cognitive Skills are composable capabilities that enhance the Aera Decision Cloud to address business decision flows for specific use cases and domains. Built on top of the Cognitive Operating System, Skills contain not only data model mapping and extensions, analytics, data science models, decision flows, metrics, and so forth, but they also include the user engagement across desktop, mobile, and voice required for business users to adopt the platform and trust the recommendations made by the Aera Decision Cloud. It’s the UX for AI in the enterprise.

Aera Developer™

Aera Developer is a comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) for Cognitive Skills. In an ever-changing business environment, the kind of decisions that need to be made can change on a moment’s notice. Digitizing decisions today requires a composable environment that empowers your data engineers, data scientists, developers, and business analysts to innovate and operationalize capabilities within their own domains to build and evolve Skills quickly and securely.

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 enables 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.