Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

MicroStrategy Usher vs Oracle Identity Governance comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

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) (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Mobile Identity category, the mindshare of MicroStrategy Usher is 16.7%, up from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Identity Governance is 27.8%, down from 29.5% 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

"The most valuable feature is the ease of development in MicroStrategy."
"The self-service and the dossier components as well as the hyper intelligence."
"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 dashboard, documentation, dossiers are all valuable features."
"The mobile identity features are great."
"The dashboard is user-friendly."
"The most important features that have impacted our environment recently are the Single Sign-On solution, role based provisioning, and the automated provisioning of accounts to target systems."
"It has a very good response time."
"The proactive controls which can be configured to a granular level allowing the organization the flexibility to meet the changing demands of the workforce."
"Password management is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features in Oracle Identity Governance are identity and access management."
"What I like most about Oracle Identity Governance is that it is a very flexible tool. It allows you to do any customization on Java as it is built on Java and you can write any customization code using Java. I also like that Oracle Identity Governance is pretty much stable. In my company, there are a lot of users, so my company prefers this solution."
"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."
"I have found the OIM Connector framework, based on ICF, to be the most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"The skills needed now are very niche and quite low level and they need to simplify the development aspect of it."
"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."
"Scaling this solution can be difficult."
"The user interface needs improvement. It needs to be more intuitive."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"The documentation of how to make different connections to different databases needs to be more centralized."
"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 platform could be enhanced with additional features."
"I would not recommend Oracle Identity Governance to others since its architecture and design do not solve modern world problems effectively."
"OIA needs to improve its governance features."
"One of the areas that need some improvement with Oracle specifically is the ease of implementation."
"Automation of validation exercises performed by humans over Recon Exceptions generated as a result of an access synchronization event over a user's need for access or not."
"Pricing for Oracle Identity Governance could be improved. The setup process for the tool could also be faster."
"The user interface experience needs to be improved."
"It would be great if the Oracle Fusion Middleware team worked on making it compatible with other application servers, as it exists in OIM9.x."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"Oracle Identity Governance is expensive."
"The licensing is expensive."
"The cost of support and upgrading to the next release are both expensive."
"I do not know specific pricing but the product is expensive when compared to other OIM products."
"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 an expensive solution."
"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."
"Oracle licenses are expensive. I suggest making pricing and licensing decisions that align with architectural requirements and the project's budget."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Mobile Identity solutions are best for your needs.
865,295 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Computer Software Company
27%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Ask a question
Earn 20 points
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?
In terms of pricing and setup cost for Oracle Identity Governance, it can be affordable (depends on the discounts you get and your needs). Since it is enterprise product, Its implementation can bec...
What needs improvement with Oracle Identity Governance?
Direct comparison of OIG/OIM/OAM would require several factors to count in. Other than being excellent product, it would be more convenient to have more 3rd party integrations/connectors available ...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle IAM, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Target, Hilton Worldwide, Gucci, Four Seasons, Facebook, Coach, Zurich, Adidas Group, eHarmony, Sonic Automotive
Werkbank, Oshkosh, PeerPay, Boingo, Kellogg's, Pella, Slanska, Avaya, D+M
Find out what your peers are saying about MicroStrategy Usher vs. Oracle Identity Governance and other solutions. Updated: July 2025.
865,295 professionals have used our research since 2012.