Abstract. We characterize the holomorphic mappings f between complex Banach spaces that may be written in the form f = g • T , where g is another holomorphic mapping and T is an operator belonging to a closed injective operator ideal. Analogous results are previously obtained for multilinear mappings and polynomials.In recent years, several authors [1], [6], [7] have studied conditions on a holomorphic mapping f between complex Banach spaces so that it may be written in the form f = g • T , where g is another holomorphic mapping and T is a (linear bounded) operator belonging to certain classes of operators.In this paper, we look at this problem in the setting of operator ideals, thus finding more general conditions so that these factorizations occur. Our results include all the previous ones, with simpler proofs, and apply to many new cases.A linear mapping T belongs to the ideal Co of compact operators if and only if it is weakly (uniformly) continuous on bounded subsets. So, if a mapping f : E → F may be written as f = g • T with T ∈ Co, then f is weakly uniformly continuous on bounded subsets of E (the mappings with this property have been studied by numerous authors, for instance [2], [3], [5]). The authors have shown in [7] that the converse also holds: if a holomorphic mapping f between Banach spaces is weakly uniformly continuous on bounded subsets, then it can be factorized in the form f = g • T , with T ∈ Co. A similar result was proved in [1] for T in the ideal WCo of weakly compact operators, and F = C the complex field.In [6, Satz 2.1], using interpolation techniques, the factorization f = g • T has been characterized in terms of the derivatives of f , for T in any closed, injective and surjective operator ideal, and F = C.In this paper, for any closed injective operator ideal U, we find several conditions on a polynomial P : E → F (or a multilinear map) so that it may be written as P = Q • T , with T in U. As a consequence, we prove that a holomorphic map f : E → F admits such a factorization if and only if f is uniformly continuous on bounded sets with respect to a suitable topology τ U . In the case U = Co, the topology τ U is the finest l.c. topology that coincides with the weak topology on bounded sets. Consequently, using a simpler proof, we recover the result in [7].