IDC's Governance, Risk and Compliance Infrastructure service provides a cross-disciplinary IT solutions view of the enabling technologies and services that allow companies to address the following objectives: information integrity and confidentiality, process integrity and application availability, and information retention and disposition. Taking a bottom-up infrastructure approach, this service provides an in-depth analysis of the intersection of the information management, information security, and infrastructure management technologies. This research tracks the technology and competitive developments for technologies that support legal discovery, records compliance, data privacy, IT risk management, and security compliance.

• Information management GRC
• IT operations GRC
• Data privacy solutions and services
• Electronic discovery and litigation support infrastructure technologies and services
• eGRC and IT GRC management software
• International eDiscovery and data privacy
• Governance, risk, and compliance in the cloud
• Early case assessment applications
• Archiving for governance and eDiscovery
• Enterprise risk management
• Best practices in IT GRC management

• GRC Infrastructure Market Taxonomy and Forecast
• eDiscovery Infrastructure Market Taxonomy and Forecast
• MarketScape: Early Case Assessment Applications
• Email Archiving Software Market Sizing and Forecast
• MarketScape: IT GRC Applications

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

1. What are the competitive landscape and market opportunity around information infrastructure and infrastructure management in support of governance, risk, and compliance initiatives?
2. How does the solutions approach to the emerging compliance infrastructure platform affect vendors' marketing, messaging, and partnering strategies, as well as users' buying dynamics?
3. Which vendors are forming partnerships and alliances to address the information management problem driven by compliance?
4. What types of solutions are IT managers; records managers; and data privacy, IT risk management, and chief compliance officers seeking to address GRC-related IT processes? What are current adoption/spending trends?

IDC's Governance, Risk and Compliance Infrastructure service examines how vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the compliance infrastructure market. This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers, including:

Accenture, Agiliance, Archer Technologies, Autonomy, CA, Cataphora, Clearwell, EMC, Fios, FTI Consulting, H5, HP, IBM, Iron Mountain, KPMG, Microsoft, NetApp, OpenText, Oracle, Proofpoint, Protiviti, Recommind, Symantec, and Trustwave.

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