IDC's Worldwide Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services Taxonomy, 2026

This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's digital engineering and operational technology services taxonomy. In 2022, the taxonomy also includes individual foundation markets grouped within primary market segments: product engineering (PE) services, product life-cycle management (PLM) services, operational technology (OT) services, and digital engineering services. At the worldwide level, spending is also segmented across three geographic macroregions: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia/Pacific. These macroregions are further segmented at the regional and local levels. IDC's worldwide services taxonomy is the basis for IDC's research studies, trackers, and forecasters for services."IDC's digital engineering and operational taxonomy services taxonomy presents a comprehensive and standardized view of the overall PE, OT, and digital engineering services market," says Mukesh Dialani, research vice president, Digital Engineering and Operational Technology services. "As technology product and enterprises continue to focus on time to market, achieve higher ROI for their engineering investments accelerated by AI and agentic AI, operations resiliency, the building of new software platforms, digital innovation, global engineering talent, ecosystem leverage, and improvement in product quality and throughput, they will increasingly reach out to and partner with service providers offering these services."