Parkar and Smart Analytica Announce Strategic Partnership for Enterprise Data and AI Transformation

Parkar and Smart Analytica today announced a strategic partnership, building on three years of collaboration to combine their strengths across Data, Analytics and AI into a single offering for enterprise-scale data and AI transformation. The partnership brings together two complementary specialists whose capabilities across data, AI, and operations enhance one another — folding into a single, integrated product and customer offering.

Under the partnership, the two founding teams unite as one combined leadership team, pooling years of servicing, research, products, and platform innovation to strengthen client offerings and solutioning.

One combined leadership team

The combined practice operates under joint leadership drawn from both organizations:

• Gaurav Singh (Founder & CEO, Parkar) leads partnership strategy, growth, and client commitment — accountable for delivering the combined offering as one end-to-end program.
• Pramod Kejriwal (Founder & CEO, Smart Analytica) serves as Executive Sponsor, driving Data and AI strategy, solution architecture, and strategic client engagements.
• Parashuram Bastawade (Co-Founder & Global Head of Delivery, Smart Analytica) leads the combined Data, Analytics and AI practice across engineering, platform, and analytics.
• Amit Gandhi (Co-Founder & CTO, Parkar) leads engineering and AI-native application delivery, shipping applications on AI-ready foundations at enterprise scale.
• Jigar Shah (Chief Product Officer, Parkar) leads Managed Operations and the Vector platform, keeping every program observable, predictive, and reliable in production.
• Ravi Shekhar (Co-Founder & CTO, Smart Analytica) leads Product Strategy and Innovation, integrating both firms' production-proven IP — Migration Suite, VizIQ, AIONIQ, and Vector — into a single joint offering.

Together, the partnership fields more than 700 engineers across four Pune locations, with client engagement and delivery reach across the US, ASEAN (Singapore and Indonesia), and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and UAE).

“Enterprise AI transformation is stalling on data foundations,” said Gaurav Singh, Founder and CEO of Parkar. “Clients need a partner that runs the whole arc — data foundation, AI-native applications, and managed operations — as one program, under one accountability. With Smart's data engineering depth and products alongside our platforms, applications, and operations practices, this partnership delivers that credibly at scale.”

“Parkar and Smart Analytica have complementary strengths that our clients have been asking for as a single offering for years,” said Pramod Kejriwal, Founder and CEO of Smart Analytica. “Smart brings the data engineering foundation, innovations and migration accelerators; Parkar brings the AIONIQ platform, application engineering, and operations muscle. This partnership makes that combined offering real for both our client bases — at unprecedented scale and value.”

The partnership positions Parkar to deliver complete AI transformation programs anchored by AIONIQ, the company's platform for building and running enterprise AI in production. Smart Analytica's data engineering accelerators — the Migration Suite and VizIQ for governed self-service analytics — now come built into every Parkar client engagement and offering.

Parkar and Smart Analytica have collaborated closely since 2023 across enterprise data engineering and AI transformation programs, most recently on a major cloud migration engagement in the manufacturing sector.

About Parkar

Parkar is an enterprise AI transformation company delivering data foundations, AI-native applications, and managed production operations through its proprietary AIONIQ and Vector platforms. AIONIQ, its AI operating model platform, governs the full arc from AI readiness to production agentic workflows; Vector, its AIOps platform, drives intelligent, predictive IT operations; and a 24×7 Global Command Center runs managed operations, with AI-native application engineering across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Founded in Chicago in 2015, Parkar serves Fortune 500 and enterprise clients across Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Technology, with 250+ engagements and 95% client retention. Learn more at parkar.in.

About Smart Analytica

Smart Analytica is a specialist data engineering firm delivering AI-ready data foundations and production analytics at petabyte scale. Its engineering pedigree runs deep: it has built and run mission-critical data platforms for one of India's largest stock exchanges, earning strong regulated-industry credentials and Cloudera Premier Partner status. Smart Analytica's proprietary product accelerators — the Migration Suite for fast, low-risk data platform migrations and VizIQ for governed self-service analytics — have taken enterprise data platforms into production across financial services, healthcare, and large-scale operations. Learn more at smart-analytica.com.