Digital transformation and engineering company Xebia has been named an OpenAI Select Partner, strengthening its collaboration with OpenAI as it looks to help enterprises build and scale artificial intelligence solutions across business operations.
The designation places Xebia within the OpenAI Partner Network, a global ecosystem of technology, consulting and services companies working with OpenAI to help organisations adopt and deploy its AI models and products.
OpenAI launched the Partner Network in June 2026 with partners spanning systems integration, management consulting, technology and data. The programme has Select, Advanced and Elite tiers, with partners assessed across areas such as technical capability, customer deployment experience, sales performance and collaboration.
For Xebia, the development comes as businesses increasingly look beyond standalone generative AI pilots towards systems capable of working across enterprise data, applications and workflows.
Focus Shifts to Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
Under the expanded relationship, Xebia plans to use OpenAI technologies alongside its expertise in agentic AI, data engineering, automation and software development to help businesses move AI projects into production.
This includes applications across banking, insurance, retail, travel, healthcare, media and technology.
The push reflects a broader change taking place in enterprise technology. Organisations are no longer evaluating artificial intelligence only as a productivity tool. Increasingly, businesses are examining how AI agents can interact with internal data, applications and workflows and perform parts of complex processes with human oversight.
News4Bharat has previously examined this transition in its coverage of how artificial intelligence is transforming jobs, businesses and technology, as AI adoption shifts from experimentation towards real-world implementation.
Xebia said its enterprise AI work will draw on products including Xebia Axis, its agentic data foundation, and Xebia Ace, an AI-native software engineering solution.
The company will also work with OpenAI's latest model family, including GPT-5.6, as businesses seek to balance model capability, speed and cost when deploying AI at scale.
‘Turning Advanced AI Into Business Outcomes’
Anand Sahay, Chief Executive Officer of Xebia, said the Select Partner designation reflects the company's effort to convert advances in AI into tangible business results.
“Being named an OpenAI Select Partner reflects the trust our clients place in us to turn advanced AI into real business outcomes. We're building on our work with OpenAI to help organizations become truly agentic enterprises, backed by the governance and engineering discipline that lasting results require.”
Xebia says it is already deploying AI across large-scale enterprise operations.
In one implementation cited by the company, agentic AI is being used by a global cruise operator to manage more than 10,000 customer emails every day, reducing processing time by about 70%.
In another project, Xebia developed a generative AI-powered knowledge platform involving more than 30,000 documents for a Fortune 500 consumer goods business. According to the company, the implementation reduced some information-based decision processes from hours to seconds.
These examples underline one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise AI adoption: connecting powerful AI models with reliable organisational data and existing workflows.
The issue is particularly relevant as AI adoption expands into sectors where governance, accuracy and human oversight remain important.
News4Bharat has also explored such practical adoption challenges through conversations with businesses, including its recent examination of how AI is being integrated into India's rural commerce ecosystem.
Preetpal Singh, Global Head of Product and Platform Engineering at Xebia, said enterprises are increasingly interested in embedding AI across their wider technology environments rather than deploying isolated use cases.
“Enterprises are moving beyond isolated AI use cases and looking at how intelligence can be embedded across data, software, and business workflows. Our focus is on bringing OpenAI models into that environment with the engineering, go
vernance, and platform foundations required to scale them in production.”
That transition is becoming an important battleground for technology consulting and engineering companies.
Access to sophisticated AI models is widening. The challenge for enterprises is increasingly centred on selecting viable use cases, preparing organisational data, connecting AI to existing software systems, managing permissions and security, monitoring costs, and establishing governance mechanisms.
Xebia Plans to Expand OpenAI-Powered Solutions
Following the Select Partner designation, Xebia plans to expand OpenAI-powered solutions across additional industries while increasing AI training and certification for engineers and consultants through the Xebia Academy.
The company has more than 25 years of experience in digital transformation and employs over 4,500 professionals across 16 countries, according to its corporate information.
The partnership comes amid growing competition among consulting, cloud and engineering companies to help enterprises move generative and agentic AI projects from proof-of-concept stages into operational systems.