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MicroStrategy Usher vs Oracle Identity Governance comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

MicroStrategy Usher
Ranking in Mobile Identity
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Identity Governance
Ranking in Mobile Identity
1st
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (8th), Identity Management (IM) (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Mobile Identity category, the mindshare of MicroStrategy Usher is 16.7%, up from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Identity Governance is 26.7%, down from 31.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile Identity
 

Featured Reviews

it_user892653 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ease of development, good visualization, and good reporting help us to get more out of our data
The most valuable feature is the ease of development in MicroStrategy. For example, we can treat URLs as objects, which is very easy to use for end-users, business analysists, or other professionals. Anyone can find it very easy to develop. The number and type of different settings that can be used for optimizing pulled data are valuable. For example, if a report is taking a lot of time to retrieve data from the database, there are settings in MicroStrategy that we can change to help. As a BI tool, it is helpful in finding different templates for the users and using the same standard operating procedures on how to operate different pulls and micro strategies.
Amimesh Anand - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers reliability through features associated with RBAC
Upgrading and making changes to the product is very difficult. It is difficult when you are upgrading the product because sometimes you cannot directly upgrade from one version to another version. You have to go to the lower version and then upgrade to the higher version, which is the biggest drawback of Oracle products. There are no additional features in the tool currently, and it has been the same for the last ten years. I want to see AI features in the tool so it becomes easy for implementers. There should be a change in the installation and deployment part, which is very heavy, due to which the team requires a lot of time, like two to three weeks. It should be easy to implement the tool in two or three days.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Overall, the solution is an easy product to use."
"The solution has good analysis features to make sure there's good sizing (so that it's not too big or too small) and allows room for growth if a company needs it."
"The self-service and the dossier components as well as the hyper intelligence."
"The dashboard, documentation, dossiers are all valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of development in MicroStrategy."
"The dashboard is user-friendly."
"The mobile identity features are great."
"Understanding what a customer is using, what they are looking for, and allowing permissions is a challenge. We use the information we get in order to understand the behavior of the customer beyond the security and to understand what they have been doing in the last month. It's a nice way to understand what is attracting the customer and what they are clicking. That could be implemented by using this kind of application."
"Its most valuable feature is its scalability."
"What I found most useful in Oracle Identity Governance, feature-wise, are provisioning, de-provisioning, and termination. Those features are very good. Oracle Identity Governance can also be easily integrated with non-Oracle products, which I find valuable."
"The features I find most effective in Oracle Identity Governance include size and scale management, which is good for large organizations."
"The one thing that stands out was is the automatic sign-out when an employee goes on vacation. Identity Governance can monitor when an employee goes on vacation and returns. We use this feature to automatically disable all the employee's accounts when they go on vacation, and they're automatically enabled when they come back."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Identity Governance is user lifecycle management. Certification is also a valuable feature of the solution. Oracle Identity Governance allows you to assign who has access to what, which is its basic feature."
"Identifying connector framework for unifying provisioning capabilities from OIM."
"The most valuable feature is the set of out-of-the-box connectors."
 

Cons

"The user interface needs improvement. It needs to be more intuitive."
"Right now, we have to apply many workarounds for the solution to do what we need it to do. There are a lot of bugs."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"Scaling this solution can be difficult."
"The documentation of how to make different connections to different databases needs to be more centralized."
"In the dossier section, they have something called documents, which is very good, but they are implementing something called dossiers also. If we compare it with the BI tools like Tableau, the canvas which MicroStrategy provides is not that great. The formatting options are limited is dossiers. In terms of formatting and making the reports more presentable, it's lagging a little bit behind."
"The skills needed now are very niche and quite low level and they need to simplify the development aspect of it."
"I would like to see more segregation managed through Oracle Identity Manager."
"Oracle Identity Governance, particularly version 12c, can handle multiple scenarios, but for a regular user, I found the use cases not that extensive, so this is an area for improvement. The implementation process for Oracle Identity Governance is also a bit more complex than how you implement competitor products, and this is another area for improvement in the solution. Technical support for Oracle Identity Governance also needs some improvement. Another area for improvement in Oracle Identity Governance is its documentation. Currently, it's lacking when compared to SailPoint. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Identity Governance is a bit more scope for AI-based Identity governance. If the solution has built-in intelligence, that will give it more leverage. Another feature I'd like to see in Oracle Identity Governance in the future is the option for managers to provide access to others via mobile devices or phones."
"This product currently uses a complex and old implementation. They need a single, user-friendly console for easy configuration. The Active Directory Services (ADS) integration needs improvement. They should offer non-Java coding options and simplify mapping."
"The solution needs to improve its web interface in the next release."
"The platform could be enhanced with additional features."
"An area for improvement in Oracle Identity Governance is that it isn't refreshed or updated as much. The only area that changed on it in the last five years was the GUI. The solution still has the same installation, troubleshooting, and configuration. Oracle Identity Governance is still very complicated when compared to other solutions. It seems that Oracle doesn't focus too much on Oracle Identity Governance in terms of making some improvements to it."
"The cost of this product needs to be reduced."
"The solution should be easy to implement with components combined in one file and built-in features to integrate target applications without having to install additional connectors."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of the implementation of Oracle Identity Governance is more of a concern than the cost of the solution. The effort that you have to do to put the solution in place is higher than the license cost."
"Oracle Identity Governance is expensive."
"I do not know specific pricing but the product is expensive when compared to other OIM products."
"I can't say much about the pricing for Oracle Identity Governance because it's different from one geography to another. In India, the license price costs less than in other geographies."
"The licensing cost for Oracle Identity Governance is very high, so I'd rate it two out of five."
"The licensing is expensive."
"Price-wise, the tool is a little bit costly."
"Oracle licenses are expensive. I suggest making pricing and licensing decisions that align with architectural requirements and the project's budget."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
49%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Healthcare Company
3%
 

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What do you like most about Oracle Identity Governance?
Role-based access control (RBAC) has been crucial for role-based management in my current company. Granular access restrictions based on role-based policies were beneficial.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Identity Governance?
Oracle Identity Governance is very expensive. Licensing is complex as database product licensing differs from other products, and connectors require separate licensing. There's a need for a combine...
What needs improvement with Oracle Identity Governance?
Oracle Identity Governance ( /categories/identity-management-im ) is complex and heavy from an implementation perspective. The configuration installations require going to the server and making man...
 

Also Known As

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Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle IAM, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
 

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