Agentic AI Compare

Aera Technology and Lima Juno, question by question.

Aera Technology and Lima Juno — Agentic AI both bring agents to supply chain work, and each of them starts from a different place.

AeraTechnologyLima JunoCrawlers copydata to AeraDecision DataModel builtAsk in oneconversationReasoning setsmode by riskWriteback tosource systemsRegister datawhere it livesMap to thesupply chainontologyAsk in plainlanguageAct at the levelyou setLearn and auditevery decisionthe upper lane follows Aera Technology’s own public material · checked 19 September 2026
How each one works, left to right. The upper lane follows Aera Technology’s own public material; the lower lane is Juno. Checked 19 September 2026.
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In their own terms

What Aera Technology describes today

Drawn from the numbered sources at the foot of this page.

Aera Technology sells the Aera Decision Cloud, which copies and harmonises data from more than 200 systems, including SAP, Oracle and Salesforce, into its own Decision Data Model. Agentic Reasoning lets a person ask a question in conversation, with Aera executing or routing the answer by a governance mode set per decision. Gartner names Aera a Leader in its inaugural 2026 quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms [3][5].

ProductAera Decision Cloud
GroupSupply chain planning and execution suites
Public sources used7, each checked on 19 September 2026
The nine questions

The same nine questions, answered twice

Numbers in brackets point to the numbered sources at the foot of the page. The line under each question says what a complete answer contains.

1 · Where must the data live for questions and agents to work?

A complete answer names the systems the data has to be copied into, and the systems that are read where they stand.

Aera TechnologyAera's patented crawlers extract data from more than 200 connected systems, including SAP, Oracle and Salesforce, into Aera's own Decision Data Model with automated refresh, so a question or agent works from that harmonised copy [1][2].
Lima JunoYour rows stay where they are. Juno registers tables from the planning suite, the ERP and the other systems through the Lima data fabric and reads them in place, joining them in one answer.

2 · How far does it reach into SAP, Oracle and planning systems?

A complete answer names the interface used for each system and says which of them are live today.

Aera TechnologyMore than 200 named connected systems feed Aera's Decision Data Model, with SAP, Oracle and Salesforce named specifically among them; the crawlers copy and harmonise this data on a refresh schedule ahead of any question or agent using it [1].
Lima JunoMore than 40 connectors cover SAP ECC and S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion and E-Business Suite, planning suites, warehouse systems, lakes, databases, files and REST services. One question can join several of them, and the one agent in production, the PO cancellation agent, runs on federated ERP data the same way.

3 · How is the shared meaning, the semantic model or ontology, built, and by whom?

A complete answer says what arrives ready, what your team builds, and how long that modelling work takes.

Aera TechnologyAera builds the Decision Data Model itself from the systems its crawlers connect to, harmonising each source's data into one model with automated refresh; how much a customer's own team can reshape that model beyond initial setup stays undocumented on the pages reviewed [1].
Lima JunoLima’s supply chain ontology arrives filled in: materials, plants, suppliers, orders and stock. Juno proposes a mapping for each registered column with a confidence and a reason; your team confirms, adjusts and extends it.

4 · How do business users ask questions, and is the working shown?

A complete answer shows the question, the query that ran, the sources read and the access rules applied.

Aera TechnologyAgentic Reasoning, announced in May 2026, lets a person ask a question in one conversation; Aera's system discovers the relevant data, reasons over it, then executes the result or routes it by the governance setting in force. Each recommendation carries a stated rationale, data lineage and a confidence score [3][4].
Lima JunoPeople ask ChatLima in plain language. Each answer shows its working: the ontology terms used, the systems read, the seconds taken and the query itself, under the asking person’s row and column access.

5 · How are agents and rules defined, and by whom?

A complete answer says who writes a rule, in which language, and how it is reviewed before it runs.

Aera TechnologyAera configures agents and skills inside the Decision Cloud platform itself, and Agentic Reasoning lets a person shape a request through conversation, ahead of executing or routing it by the governance setting already in force [3][4].
Lima JunoA planner writes the policy in plain language; the Planner Agent turns it into a reviewable planning table, simulated on past data, and the Lima Rules Engine executes the published version the same way every time. That is how the one agent in production, the PO cancellation agent, runs; Lima’s agent blueprint designs 960 further roles, yet to be built.

6 · How is autonomy set, and how do approvals work?

A complete answer gives the levels available, who approves what at each one, and how a level is raised and lowered.

Aera TechnologyAera runs three modes: fully autonomous for high-volume, low-risk decisions with exceptions escalated; human-augmented, where the agent recommends and a person approves; and human-led, where a person works with AI support. Aera states that the degree of agency in use grows as confidence grows [4][3].
Lima JunoEach agent carries a level you set, A0 to A4, agent by agent. At A2 a named person approves every action; at A3 the agent acts inside limits. Lowering a level takes one step.

7 · How do actions reach the ERP, and is each write confirmed?

A complete answer names the interface for each ERP and says where the acknowledgement of a write is kept.

Aera TechnologyAera describes bidirectional writeback of decisions into a customer's operational systems, reaching back out through the same connections its crawlers use to gather data; a stated acknowledgement step for each individual write stays undocumented on the pages reviewed [1][2].
Lima JunoWrite-back uses each ERP’s own supported interfaces: released APIs and BAPIs for SAP, REST resources and interface tables for Oracle. It starts per application after a confirmed test write, and every write keeps the acknowledgement. The PO cancellation agent in production writes back this way, under human approval.

8 · How does it learn from people’s decisions, and what is audited?

A complete answer says what is recorded for each decision and how that record shapes the next recommendation.

Aera TechnologyAera's Control Room logs each agent's inputs, reasoning and outcome, running simulation testing and drift detection, and its feedback loop records whether a recommendation was accepted or overridden; every recommendation carries a rationale, data lineage, a confidence score and an audit trail [4][5].
Lima JunoEvery accept, edit and override is stored with the rule version, the facts at that moment and the outcome, so the next recommendation improves. The audit trail holds signal, reasoning, limits, approval, action and acknowledgement for each run; in production, 100% of the cancellation agent’s actions trace to a rule.

9 · What is the pricing unit, is there a trial, and where do analysts place it?

A complete answer names the unit of charge, the route to try it, and the analyst reports that cover the category.

Aera TechnologyA public price stays unstated on Aera's pages; the vendor describes flexible pricing built around a proof-of-concept start. Gartner names Aera a Leader in its inaugural 2026 quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms, published in January 2026 [5][7].
Lima JunoJuno is licensed with the Lima platform and priced per engagement. The token manager budgets and meters every model call, per agent and per team. Twenty use cases are worked through on this site, one page each, and the analyst guide sets out the markets these products sit in.
Fit

When to choose Aera Technology

Situations in which Aera Technology’s own product is the better first move.

Their model is the right targetOrganisations that want one harmonised model built from more than 200 systems, including SAP, Oracle and Salesforce, feeding every decision.
Governance comes firstTeams ready to set a governance mode per decision type, from human-led through human-augmented to fully autonomous.
Analyst placement weighs heavilyBuyers who value Aera's Leader placement in Gartner's inaugural 2026 quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms.
Beside them

What Juno adds

Many clients keep Aera Technology and add Juno beside it; these are the things it brings.

Each card links to the capability page that shows the mechanism.

Questions
Can we run both products?

Yes, and many estates do. Juno registers Aera Technology’s data beside the ERP and the planning system, answers questions across all of them and runs agents at the level you set for each one.

Where do the Aera Technology answers come from?

From Aera Technology’s own public pages, press releases and documentation, listed at the foot of this page with their publication dates. Where the public material leaves a point open, the answer says so.

How current is this page?

Every source was checked on 19 September 2026. Each vendor releases new agent features often, so treat a page older than a quarter as a starting point for the briefing.

Sources

Every claim, with its publisher and date

The Aera Technology column rests on public material only.

  1. Aera Technology, Decision Data Model page, undated, checked 19 September 2026 · https://www.aeratechnology.com/decision-data-model
  2. Aera Technology, what is Agentic Decision Intelligence, undated, checked 19 September 2026 · https://www.aeratechnology.com/what-is-agentic-decision-intelligence/
  3. Aera Technology, Aera Technology introduces Agentic Reasoning for enterprise decisions, 4 May 2026, checked 19 September 2026 · https://www.aeratechnology.com/news/aera-technology-introduces-agentic-reasoning-for-enterprise-decisions-moving-from-situation-to-action-in-one-conversation/
  4. Aera Technology, Agentic Decision Intelligence: the next evolution in autonomous decisions, 25 November 2025, checked 19 September 2026 · https://www.aeratechnology.com/blogs/agentic-decision-intelligence-the-next-evolution-in-autonomous-decisions/
  5. Aera Technology, Aera Technology named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms, 29 January 2026, checked 19 September 2026 · https://www.aeratechnology.com/news/aera-technology-named-leader-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-decision-intelligence-platforms/
  6. Aera Technology, customers page, undated, checked 19 September 2026 · https://www.aeratechnology.com/customers/
  7. FinTech News, top decision intelligence platforms of 2026 according to Gartner, 10 March 2026, checked 19 September 2026 · https://fintechnews.ch/aifintech/top-decision-intelligence-platforms-of-2026-according-to-gartner/82427/

Each number in the Aera Technology answers above points to the matching entry in this list. Every entry was checked on 19 September 2026.

See the same nine answers on your own estate

Bring two systems and one decision your planners make every week. In the first week we register the data, confirm the mapping with your team, answer your questions in ChatLima and run the first agent at the level you choose.