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MicroStrategy Usher vs Oracle Identity Governance comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

MicroStrategy Usher
Ranking in Mobile Identity
3rd
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
5.8
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (8th), Identity Management (IM) (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Mobile Identity category, the mindshare of MicroStrategy Usher is 20.8%, up from 14.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Identity Governance is 33.3%, up from 29.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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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 most valuable feature is the ease of development in MicroStrategy."
"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 is user-friendly."
"The mobile identity features are great."
"The self-service and the dossier components as well as the hyper intelligence."
"The dashboard, documentation, dossiers are all valuable features."
"Its most valuable feature is its scalability."
"The most valuable features in Oracle Identity Governance are identity and access management."
"The most valuable feature is the flexible automation functionality which has optimized our user access privilege management. This has allowed us to create and delete user accounts more accurately and efficiently. This feature has enabled us to save time and resources needed to perform mundane manual tasks."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the set of out-of-the-box connectors."
"Identifying connector framework for unifying provisioning capabilities from OIM."
"Good features are the RBAC and UI customization."
"The most valuable feature is the user manager certification that approves or removes user access."
 

Cons

"Scaling this solution can be difficult."
"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."
"The documentation of how to make different connections to different databases needs to be more centralized."
"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."
"I would like to see automation in the solution. We need also integration with the Identity Manager. The solution needs to improve in the application integrations part. It also needs to focus on application deployment as well."
"The user-friendliness of Oracle Identity Governance can be improved compared to other products."
"It responds fast but because of the bugs we have already had some major incidents and complete unavailability."
"Identity Governance is a difficult tool to work with. You have to input many models to understand what is happening with the logins. The user interface is not so good. And a lot of the features we use aren't available out of the box."
"It's a complex solution, so it will take time in terms of deployment."
"The platform could be enhanced with additional features."
"I have yet to see its full functionality exercised in my organization."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I do not know specific pricing but the product is expensive when compared to other OIM products."
"The cost of support and upgrading to the next release are both expensive."
"Oracle licenses are expensive. I suggest making pricing and licensing decisions that align with architectural requirements and the project's budget."
"Oracle Identity Governance is expensive."
"The price is based on the number of users per year."
"Price-wise, the tool is a little bit costly."
"The licensing cost for Oracle Identity Governance is very high, so I'd rate it two out of five."
"Oracle Identity Governance is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
74%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Government
1%
 

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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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