IDC's Worldwide Line of Business Spending Guide Taxonomy, 2023

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's functional area research. It should be used as a companion piece for IDC's Worldwide IT Spending Guide: Line of Business program as well as all functional area research to help organizations understand the non-IT department technology buyers."IDC's Worldwide IT Spending Guide: Line of Business taxonomy presents a comprehensive view of spending by line-of-business functions," said Eileen Smith, program vice president, Data and Analytics at IDC. "It is an invaluable resource to help vendors define and standardize their functional area definitions."