IDC's Governance, Compliance and Performance Management service examines the market for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions as well as performance management (PM) solutions. Under the umbrella of corporate governance, initiatives to manage performance, risk, and compliance requirements include GRC and PM applications that leverage a foundation of business process automation, information management, and automated reporting. This service analyzes GRC solutions to manage internal controls and monitor for fraud and risk as well PM solutions that cross financial and operational boundaries such as planning, performance management, and cost and profitability management. Additionally, this service looks at the impact of legislative mandates for improving internal controls in operations and IT. Subscribers to this service receive direct access to IDC's top industry experts, who can supply competitive analysis and positioning advice, identify strategic partnering opportunities, assist with speaking to the investment community, provide press quotes, and more.

This service covers the following segments of the governance, risk, and compliance applications market:

• GRC applications (risk management, compliance management, business assurance, and fraud detection)
• Operational compliance initiatives (tax, travel and expense, contract management, electronic payments, audit)
• PM applications (including financial as well as operational PM applications)
• IT governance (risk and controls management at the application layer)

• Compliance and risk management strategies
• Financial compliance solutions and investments
• Performance management solutions - crossing financial and operational boundaries with a focus on cost and strategy management
• Business assurance analytics - fraud and continuous controls monitoring
• Risk and performance management convergence
• Financial performance management maturity

1. What is the market opportunity for GRC solutions?
2. Are users ready to adopt technology to support compliance?
3. What operational investments are organizations making to close internal control gaps?
4. Where are performance management applications in the market maturity life cycle?
5. How are GRC and PM converging?

IDC's Governance, Compliance and Performance Management service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the GRC and performance management markets, including:

ACL Services, Actuate, Apex, Approva, Axentis, Blackline, Business Objects, Bwise, CA, ClusterSeven, Cognos, Compliance Spectrum, Concur, Deloitte, D2C, EMC, Fair Isaac, HP, IBM, Infogix, Infor, Longview (Exact), Microsoft, Nextance,

OpenPages, OpenText, Oracle, Oversight Technologies, Paisley, Prodiance, Qumas, Reliant, Sabrix, SAP, SAS, Smartstream, Softrax, and Trintech.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

This document forecasts and analyzes packaged analytic applications supporting PM.

This document includes a competitive market sizing and forecast of end-user software solutions that support GRC, focusing on process, documentation, and analytics.

Various documents analyze operational and technology strategies to meet compliance requirements.

Various documents analyze operational and technology strategies to meet performance management requirements.

This document examines the move from compliance to risk management, including drivers and strategies.

Various studies deliver representative models of GRC solutions based on vendor analysis and end-user adoption.

Various studies discuss the emerging models of technologies supporting cost and revenue management, profitability management, and costing techniques.

Various studies deliver representative models of technologies supporting fraud detection and continuous monitoring.

End-user case studies provide analysis of successful implementations in the areas of GRC and PM.

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