IDC's Worldwide Agentic AI Adoption Guide Taxonomy, 2026

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's Agentic AI Adoption taxonomy. It is intended as a companion for forecasts presented in IDC's Worldwide Agentic AI Adoption Guide and for all of IDC's worldwide agentic AI research. Technology suppliers may use this approach and structure to build a sector-focused organization that measures agentic AI adoption by geography and related metrics, including token costs. "IDC's Worldwide Agentic AI Adoption Guide Taxonomy provides key insights into IDC's segmentation definitions, representing an essential companion to our forecasts for AI adoption by sector and geography," said Rick Villars, group vice president, worldwide research at IDC. "It presents a comprehensive and standardized view of the agentic AI marketplace, helping vendors understand and navigate IDC's data effectively and define their target markets in terms of agentic AI actions, token delivery loads and token costs."