Tech-Driven Business

About Tech-Driven Business

Get ready to think differently about how technology driven solutions can lead to business success. Mustansir Saifuddin is the co-founder of Innovative Solution Partners. With a career that spans multiple industries and a variety of roles including a software quality assurance engineer to leading global teams and projects, he knows what it takes to fuse technology with what a business wants. Listen as he interviews tech experts, business experts, and visionaries on their successes, challenges, and lessons learned. We’ll cover everything from SAP and ERP focused solutions, to leveraging data analytics, to how to achieve your business goals with technology.

Publisher

Innovative Solution Partners

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2020

Latest episode

1 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

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   1 Apr 2026

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

   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. Connect with Us: LinkedIn:Shashank ParitalaMustansir Saifuddin Innovative Solution Partners Twitter / X:@Mmsaifuddin YouTube: Or learn more about Innovative Solution Partners and schedule a free consultation at www.isolutionpartners.com. Episode Transcript: [00:00:00] Mustansir Saifuddin: Welcome to Tech- Driven 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. [00:00:39] Hello, Shashank. How are you? [00:00:46] Shashank Paritala: Hey Mustansir, I'm doing well. [00:00:48] 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 [00:01:00] 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. [00:01:11] 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? [00:01:23] 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. [00:01:38] 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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   12 Dec 2025

   Inside Insights: SAP's Enterprise-First Approach to AI with Andrea Haupfear

   Dive into what’s next for enterprise AI in the latest episode of Tech-Driven Business. Mustansir Saifuddin welcomes SAP expert Andrea Haupfear for an in-depth conversation on how SAP is helping organizations turn AI from hype into measurable business value. If you’re navigating transformation across finance, supply chain, or operations, this episode is a must-listen. Andrea breaks down what makes enterprise AI different—why trusted data, business context, and governance are non-negotiable—and how SAP is embedding AI directly into business processes to improve speed, accuracy, and ROI. Tune in for a real-world example and practical guidance on how organizations can start small, prioritize high-impact use cases, and prepare for what’s coming next with Agentic AI. Andrea Haupfear is a Business Process Architect with over a decade of experience driving digital transformation through artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. She specializes in designing and implementing AI-powered solutions that enhance operational efficiency, decision-making, and adaptability across diverse business environments. Andrea is recognized for her strategic leadership in translating complex technologies into scalable, real-world applications, making her a trusted advisor in navigating change and unlocking value through innovation. Connect with Us: LinkedIn:Andrea HaupfearMustansir Saifuddin Innovative Solution Partners X: @Mmsaifuddin YouTube or learn more about our sponsor Innovative Solution Partners to schedule a free consultation. Episode Transcript [00:00:00] Mustansir Saifuddin: Welcome to Tech Driven Business, brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. I'm honored to have Andrea Haupfear of SAP. Join me today to break down how SAP is helping organizations leverage AI to drive efficiency, reduce risk and deliver measurable ROI. We'll also look ahead at what's next and how you and your team can prepare as AI moves from experimental to essential for enterprises to thrive. [00:00:35] Hello Andrea. How are you? [00:00:37] Andrea Haupfear: I'm good. How are you? [00:00:40] Mustansir Saifuddin: Doing well, doing well. I'm so excited to have you on our show. So thank you for coming on. Today we would like to talk about the latest SAP's AI journey and the business transformation. And what it really means for SAP customers. How does it sound? [00:00:57] Andrea Haupfear: Sure. No, it sounds great. This is one of my passions that I love to talk about, and so you know, happy and excited to actually share a little bit about what we're doing with AI at SAP and what we've seen in the field with our customers. So, super excited and it's a pleasure being here. [00:01:14] So thank you again for inviting me here. [00:01:17] Mustansir Saifuddin: Awesome. Awesome. Let's get into it, we know we are at an inflection point, right? AI is moving so fast and it's actually turning from experimental to essential, right? For in a lot of different cases. So let's focus in how is SAP's AI strategy fundamentally different from consumer AI? And why does it really matter for enterprises? [00:01:39] Andrea Haupfear: Yeah, absolutely. So a couple of things that I wanna kind of touch on here. So oftentimes, and you mentioned this, right, we, we've used, we've used AI in our personal and daily lives for, you know, the last decade plus, right? I mean, when you think about AI, a lot of people think about Siri or Alexa or ChatGPT, right? [00:02:01] And you know, when I personally think about AI you've got your broad and creative tasks. What we've done in our personal lives, you know, everything from creating a grocery list to, editing a, a photo, right? A family photo. But from a business perspective you know, an enterprise AI, it really has to change those business outcomes. [00:02:26] And really when you think about this, think about, you know, everything from could be closing the books faster or. A faster on time delivery rate or reducing risk in my supply chai

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   24 Jun 2025

   Inside Insights: SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Adoption Roadmap with Shawn Brown

   SAP's Shawn Brown provides a roadmap for established SAP customers to modernize their landscape by using Business Data Cloud to turn existing artifacts into valuable data products in this interview with Mustansir Saifuddin.

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