CGI Named Top Contender in Everest Group’s 2025 PEAK Matrix for GCCs in India

CGI reinforces India’s role as a hub for AI-enabled, innovation-led Global Capability Centres.

The GCC Hub

January 12, 2026 / 2 min read

CGI earns global recognition for end-to-end GCC support aligned to clients' strategic priorities.

CGI, one of the largest independent  IT and business consulting services firms in the world, has been named a Major Contender in the Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 for both Global Capability Centre (GCC) set-up and transformation capabilities in India.

These recognitions highlight CGI’s end-to-end GCC support aligned to clients’ strategic priorities. Through flexible frameworks, skilled talent, and specialized Centres of Excellence, CGI helps clients establish, scale, and modernize GCCs, transforming them into agile, innovation-driven hubs that accelerate digital transformation, enable AI-integrated operations, and drive global agility at scale.

“In India, we are uniquely positioned to help clients unlock the full potential of their GCCs—from operational excellence to large-scale transformation. This recognition by Everest Group reflects our skilled talent and world-class delivery capabilities in India, helping organizations accelerate digital transformation, scale AI-powered operations and strengthen resilience at scale,” said Rakesh Aerath, President, Asia Pacific Global Delivery Centres of Excellence, CGI.

Insights from CGI’s annual global proprietary research reveal that organizations are pursuing a dual agenda of balancing innovation and growth with efficiency and cost control. In line with this, many organizations plan to invest in establishing and expanding their technology operations centres as part of digital transformation priorities.

“This recognition highlights CGI’s two decades of helping clients build outcome-driven, AI-enabled GCCs. By combining our proximity model with managed services, we help clients treat the GCC as an extension of their enterprise, aligned to business priorities and delivering measurable outcomes from the outset,” said Amar Aswatha, Senior Vice-President, Global Business Engineering, CGI.

Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Assessments benchmark service providers on capability and market impact, drawing on provider inputs, client feedback, and industry data. For GCCs, the framework evaluates a provider’s ability to support the full lifecycle, from setup to operational excellence and strategic transformation.

The Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Assessment is a framework that evaluates service providers, technology vendors, and solutions across global markets. Each assessment measures two key dimensions: market impact, which reflects adoption, portfolio mix, and value delivered, and vision and capability, which gauges innovation, delivery footprint, and strategic direction. 

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