The creation of this organization is based on filling the institutional and knowledge gap that exists in Indian business consulting. Analytic consulting in private industry in India getting marginalized as the players tend to pay more attention to the specific silos and miss out the recent developments in the general methods. The academic researchers on the other hand focus mainly on the recent advances on methods and find it difficult to establish credibility to the methods without having access to live business problems. The basic bottlenecks for this are: (i) the academic institutions do not have the infrastructure and supporting manpower to undertake business consulting, such as research assistants and a second level of managers for timely execution of projects, and (ii) the business organizations are unwilling to part with proprietary data without proper legal safeguards. This gap can be filled by creating an independent private profit making consulting institution with close professional ties to academic institutions.

Noting this broader pattern observed in developed countries like USA and UK, where business consulting organizations get located close to well-established academic institutions and draw upon their faculty and students as consultants and part time workers, Samkhya Analytica is established in close proximity to the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and draws upon the expertise possessed by its faculty and students of various academic institutions in Bangalore and elsewhere. Samkhya Analytica is selective in its consultancy engagements and focuses on high-impact projects requiring either an application of emerging statistical methods or projects that would provide academic challenge to develop new analytic model or framework for application.