#300 Fred Laluyaux: How Decision Intelligence & AI Agents Are Redefining Enterprise Operations

To remain competitive in this growing digital world, companies would have to think about their decisions and the impact of these decisions across the value chain, breaking the silos, not just data, but knowledge and organizational silo. When you look at the volume of decisions coming in and you look at the constraint that are basically driven by this this human operated model, our vision was from day one to move from people making and executing decisions supported by machines, by data, by software, to a world where machines would be able to make and execute decisions guided by people. I usually start by having you introduce yourself to listeners and explain what Era Technologies is. And then, I wanted to talk about, decision intelligence, broadly and then how it relates to Era. But why don't you start by introducing yourself? Okay. So, first of all, thanks for having me today, Greg. My name is Fred Ladovio. I'm the cofounder and CEO of Era Technology. Been working on this adventure for eight years now. Prior to that, you know, I spent my entire career in the world of helping enterprise manage complexities with software analytics. So my career took me from Europe to The US starting with data modeling, business intelligence, ERP, AI. Prior to building Era, Era, I built another company in a space called Anaplan. Prior to that, I was with SAP. So, basically, spent the last, close to thirty years, really, working on performance management with data and analytics. Okay. And this is all built around this idea of decision intelligence. Is that right? It is correct. Yep. And you've been pioneering decision intelligence for years, long before most people were talking about it. Can you explain what decision intelligence is and why it's becoming important? Well, it was pioneer decision intelligence before it was called decision intelligence, when we launched Era in 2017, June 1937. I'll never forget that day. We said welcome to the self driving enterprise. Why did we do that? It goes back to 2010 when I was, at SAP at the time, and I wrote a paper around my vision, which was quite simple related to the fact that or driven by the fact that, we believe that the digitization of our economy was gonna drive three fundamental things. The first one is an acceleration, a continuous acceleration of business cycles. And if you go back, you know, decade, two decades ago, and you look at the planning and the execution cycles, you were counting in month, you were continuing quarters. You're now looking at real time. So that continuous acceleration has been proven, you know, a valid assumption to start the company. The second one was back to the digitization driving now consumerization of our economy, and and the result of that was decisions that would have to be made at a much finer grain. We used to plan and think with segments, with aggregates, with categories, and now we're thinking …