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Fred Laluyaux

Fred Laluyaux

Co-founder, President and CEO of Aera Technology, the decision intelligence company; previously CEO of Anaplan and executive at SAP and Business Objects.

Sep 22, 2026

3:59
What are you seeing that makes this feel like a different stage?
4:04
It's a combination of things.
4:05
Look, we started in 2017.
4:08
We were very early with that vision.
4:10
It took a long time to build the technology.
4:12
I think from our vantage point, and we operate in Europe, in North America, in Asia, the conversation is shifting from what is it and why do I need this? So basically from our side, a lot of work was around evangelizing the approach, the methodology, the why you need this to most companies today understand that they need this approach and now they're looking for a platform, they're looking for a partner.
4:41
So the shift really is from our vantage point, from eventualization to proposing a solution that companies will be able to deploy fast, reliable, in a fast manner, reliable manner, and so on and so forth.

9 MINS LATER

14:21
And are the implications for the operating models or the business models, do they need to change? And do the existing structures stand in the way sometimes?
16:00
But what does that look like on a day to day basis?
16:03
Yeah, I'll get to that point in a second.
16:06
Just to Yusuf's last comment, I was quite pleased to see a couple of weeks ago, the Hershey company, a Chateau manufacturer, in their...
16:21
Analysts Day, financial analysts have on their presentation a slide that talked about how decision intelligence was going to save the company $50 million and reduce inventory level by $100 million within the next couple of years.
16:37
So the impact of what we're talking about is very real.
16:41
Now, Ian, back to your question about I think somehow beyond the question you're asking me, how does it work, right? I think that's maybe what I can describe.
16:49
So if you want to digitize a decision, so think about a decision is what an operator does in your business every day.

7 MINS LATER

24:17
that area?

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