0 Technology Services Industry

IBM is an IT behemoth with an operating history of more than a century. The company's offerings span a range of services, software, and hardware. IBM operates on a global scale, with operations in over 170 countries; it generates a little more than half of its revenue outside the Americas. The company has an entrenched position globally within the largest multinational firms, providing an end-to-end portfolio that helps enterprises plan, build, manage, and maintain IT infrastructure, platforms, applications, and services.

Accenture is a leading provider of management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing. The firm is truly global, with operations in over 120 countries and roughly 450,000 employees. The company has extensive industry experience and relationships with many market leading firms, and 94 of the Fortune Global 100 companies and more than 80% of the Fortune Global 500 companies work with Accenture. While the firm is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the majority of operations are conducted via New York and Chicago.

Automatic Data Processing Inc competes in the human resources administration services industry. It provides services that satisfy companies' human resources needs, such as payroll processing and benefits administration. ADP was founded in 1949 and has its headquarters in Roseland, New Jersey. It serves more than 650,000 clients and has 57,000 employees worldwide.

S&P Global is not only the world's largest provider of credit ratings and indexes, it offers complimentary data, research, and analytical tools to capital market participants. Within credit ratings, S&P is the largest of the big three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations alongside Moody's and Fitch. S&P accounted for around 49% of bond ratings tracked by the SEC the past two years, modestly more than its chief rival, Moody's, with 34%. Combined with Fitch, these three firms have ratings on more than 95% of the market.

Moody's is the world's second- largest provider of credit ratings, trailing only S&P Global. The company provides ratings on more than a third of the total bond ratings in existence. Within ratings, roughly half of its revenue is derived from corporate issuers, while the rest of its corporate ratings are split among financial institutions, structured products, and public institutions. Moody's Analytics (13.5% of operating income) provides ancillary software and data solutions to issuers and investors. In 2017, the company bought Bureau van Dijk, a provider of private company data, for $3.5 billion to bolster its efforts in analytics.

Cognizant is an IT services provider with headquarters in Teaneck, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1994, employs close to 280,000 people, and provides such services as technology consulting, application outsourcing, systems integration, business process services, and cloud services. The firm generates approximately 77% of group revenue from the North American market and roughly 90% of group revenue from its three main industries: financial services, healthcare and manufacturing, retail and logistics.

Paychex competes in the payroll outsourcing industry. It is the second-largest player in terms of revenue and focuses on providing this service to small and midsize businesses. Paychex was created from the consolidation of 17 payroll processors in 1979 and services about 590,000 clients. The firm has almost 13,000 employees and is based in Rochester, New York.

Founded in 1999, MercadoLibre operates online commerce marketplaces (representing around 48% of revenue in 2018) in more than a dozen Latin American countries, while also offering an online/offline payment-processing platform (MercadoPago), credit solutions for buyers/sellers, display and paid search advertising capabilities (MercadoClics), online store management services (MercadoShops), and third-party logistics solutions (MercadoEnvios). The company generates more than 95% of its revenue from Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.

Verisk Analytics Inc is a data analytics provider offering decision support and risk-management solutions to the financial industry. The company's predictive analytics are used in rating applications, underwriting, claims, catastrophe and weather risk assessment, global risk assessment, natural resources intelligence, economic forecasting, and other related fields. Most of Verisk's revenue is based on long-term contracts and subscriptions. The largest end market is the risk assessment sector. Verisk's clients are located primarily in the United States.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a supplier of IT infrastructure products and services. The company operates as three major segments. Its hybrid IT division primarily sells computer servers, storage arrays, and Pointnext technical services. The intelligent edge group sells Aruba networking products and services. HPE's financial services division offers financing and leasing plans for customers. The Palo Alto, California-based company sells on a global scale and has approximately 66,000 employees.

MSCI is a leading provider of benchmark indexes and portfolio risk analytics tools primarily utilized by institutional investors around the world. The company's All Country World Index is recognized as the standard for global equity portfolios by institutional investors and consultants. MSCI believes that approximately $11 trillion in assets globally are benchmarked to MSCI indexes. In addition to indexes, the company's analytics segment provides analytical tools, RiskMetrics, and Barra to investors.

Equifax is one of the leading credit bureaus in the United States, providing the consumer information that is the basis for granting credit. The company also provides database management, fraud detection, marketing, business credit, and analytical services. About a fourth of the company's revenue is generated outside the U.S.

Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc is a provider of investor communication and securities processing solutions to the financial industry. The company operates two business segments: Investor Communications Solutions, and Global Technology and Operations. The larger segment, investor communication solutions, offers investor and customer communication solutions, corporate issuer and advisor solutions, and mutual fund and retirement solutions. The primary business is the processing and distribution of proxy material to investors in equity securities and mutual funds and the facilitation of related vote processing. Broadridge's largest end market is the United States of America.

Based in Stamford, Conn., Gartner provides independent research and analysis on information technology and other related technology industries. Its research is delivered to clients' desktops in the form of reports, briefings and updates. Typical clients are chief information officers and other business executives who help plan a companies IT budget. Gartner also provides consulting services and hosted nearly 80 IT conferences across the globe in 2007.

DXC Technology is a vendor-independent IT services provider that started trading in April 2017. DXC was created via the amalgamation of Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Services business. The combined company has enviable global scale, with annual revenue of around $25 billion, over 170,000 employees, operations across 70 countries, and broad industry exposure. In addition, the firm has roughly 6,000 clients, of which over 200 are within the Fortune 500.

Nielsen Holdings PLC offers marketing and client analytics services to retailers and media companies. The company specialises in two segments: Buy and Watch. The Buy segment provides retail transactional measurement data and consumer behaviour analytics information to the consumer packaged goods industry. The Watch segment collects and analyses media usage behaviour data for various forms of media, including television, radio, online, and mobile. The generated analytics are used within the media industry to determine advertising inventory values. Maximum revenue comes from the United States of America region.

Xerox Holdings Corp is an original equipment manufacturing and software company. Xerox operates in one segment--design, development and sale of printing technology and related solutions--while deriving 60% of its revenue from North America, and 40% from international markets. The company is an OEM of multifunction printers, or MFPs (printers that can print, copy and scan), focusing on large enterprise markets. Apart from equipment, the company provides post sales services like managed print services--a service that helps to bring smart servicing and efficiencies to how employers use their print/copy equipment. Xerox is attempting to enter new markets like digital print packaging solutions and printed electronics.

Teradata Corp provides analytic data products and related services. The firm operates in two segments: data and analytics, which captures, integrates, stores, manages, and analyzes data of all types to answer business questions and deliver insight; and marketing applications, which offers marketing management products to help businesses win customer loyalty. Its solutions include components such as data warehousing, big data, discovery tools, integration tools, and business intelligence tools, to manage and integrate the complex data ecosystem. A majority of the firm's revenue is generated in North America and Latin America, and the rest from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.