PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 2068502
PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 2068502
IDC's Worldwide Services Tracker Taxonomy, 2026
This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Worldwide Services Tracker methodology and taxonomy. It is intended as a companion for IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker, 2026. Technology suppliers may utilize this approach and structure to help them build a services taxonomy."IDC's Services Taxonomy provides key insights into IDC's services methodology and definitions, representing an essential companion to our services tracker," said Eileen Smith, group vice president, IDC's Data and Analytics. "It presents a comprehensive and standardized view of the technology marketplace, helping vendors understand and navigate IDC's data effectively and define their service offerings."
IDC's Worldwide Services Tracker Taxonomy
Services Tracker Taxonomy Changes for 2026
Taxonomy Overview
- Hierarchy of services markets
Definitions
- Business services
- Business consulting
- Business process outsourcing
- Human resources business process outsourcing
- Procurement business process outsourcing services
- Finance and accounting business process outsourcing services
- Customer care business process outsourcing services
- Business process outsourcing
- Business consulting
- IT services
- Technology consulting
- IT consulting
- Technology implementation
- Systems integration
- Network consulting and integration
- Custom application development
- Technology outsourcing
- Application management
- IT outsourcing
- Network and endpoint outsourcing services
- Exceptions and exclusions
- Hosting infrastructure services
- IT deploy and support
- Hardware deploy and support
- Software deploy and support
- IT education and training
- Technology consulting
- Engineering services
- Product engineering services
- Operational technology services
- Geography taxonomy
- Data reporting
- Standards for defining revenue
- Services partnering and subcontracting revenue
- Product resell revenue
- Treatment of different currencies
- Historical services tracker
- Company and vendor
- Named and "other" vendors
- Vendor classification taxonomy
- Vendor restatements
- Services tracker forecast
- Market restatements
- Services tracker add-on products
- Cloud add-on
- Software ecosystem
- Methodology
- Services tracker historical company modelling methodology
- Forecast methodology
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