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Inside Insights: How AI is Disrupting Traditional Consulting Models with Shashank Paritala

18 minutes Posted Apr 1, 2026 at 3:08 am.

] Mustansir Saifuddin: Welcome to TechDriven Business, brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. I'm excited to have Shashank Paritala join me today to unpack how AI is shaping the consulting landscape, especially within data and analytics. We will explore how the economics of consulting are shifting, what skills are becoming more valuable, and how organizations can rethink their approach to architecture, delivery, and value creation as AI moves from a supporting tool to a core driver of how work gets done.

] Hello, Shashank. How are you?

] Shashank Paritala: Hey Mustansir, I'm doing well.

] Mustansir Saifuddin: I'm excited to have you on our show. Today we will be talking about the role of AI. What is the effect of AI and how it is shaping up the whole IT consulting work

] from a workforce perspective. I like to keep a little bit more focused on data and analytics . I know that is very near and dear to you and what you have been doing over the course of your career.

] The whole idea is how do we get this, elephant in the room. A lot of questions coming up and the economics is changing in this space. Let me just start with the basics. How is AI changing the whole economics of consulting?

] Shashank Paritala: Yeah, absolutely. I've run a data and an ML sort of practice focused around SAP, but also other things. Chat GPT came out a couple years ago. It started to arrive. I think people were feeding in snippets of code, getting out outputs.

] In the past few months it's blown up. It's 10 X. I think people see that it's really arrived. It can really handle what would be major portions of work that we would sell as consultants in terms of hours and bags of hours and buckets of hours. It can do that stuff. That realization has clicked. Let's just dive in a little bit deeper into the data and analytics space, data warehouses have been around for a long time. Data lakes have started to appear on the scene, data lake houses and all of that. But I think a lot of customers are still in the space where they're looking to do data modernization. That used to be a

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Explore how AI is reshaping the consulting landscape in this episode of Tech-Driven Business. Mustansir Saifuddin sits down with Shashank Paritala for a candid, real-world conversation on how AI is transforming the economics of consulting—especially in the data and analytics space. From shifting skillsets to accelerating delivery timelines, this episode breaks down what’s changing, what still matters, and where firms can truly differentiate.

If you’re leading or supporting digital transformation, this is a must-listen. Shashank shares perspective on what’s becoming commoditized—like code generation and refactoring—and what’s increasing in value, including architecture, business context, and the ability to reduce ambiguity upfront. The conversation also explores how AI is impacting project cycles, why strong requirements and design are more critical than ever, and the risks of rapidly building disconnected “point solutions” without a cohesive data and AI strategy.

Tune in for practical insights on how consultants and organizations can adapt—by focusing less on selling hours and more on delivering outcomes, building reusable solutions, and leveraging AI to move faster with greater precision.

Shashank Paritala has worked across the SAP data and analytics space for over a decade, including Accenture and Avvale, where he led the Data & Analytics practice. His background includes analytics strategy, enterprise data architecture and has been involved with SAP Datasphere since the early days - helping clients turn data into business outcomes.

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