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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
5.6
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
User Provisioning Software (6th), Identity Management (IM) (11th), Identity Governance Administration (IGA) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Mobile Identity category, the mindshare of MicroStrategy Usher is 17.6%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Identity Governance is 21.5%, down from 31.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile Identity Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Identity Governance21.5%
MicroStrategy Usher17.6%
Other60.9%
Mobile Identity
 

Featured Reviews

AO
System Implementer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Improved the way to exploit and analyze data and offers no interruptions in service when running
The most valuable aspect of the solution is it's non-stop application. It continues to run so there are no interruptions to customers. It's also able to reach many people. 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.
Ziad Khawam - PeerSpot reviewer
Company Manager at cloudbreak
Identity workflows have delivered strong governance but remain complex to install and customize
I would describe the installation of Oracle Identity Governance on-premises as quite complex. Very complex. To install the product, it took us maybe three or four days to get it up and running just to go through the installation procedures. I repeated the same exercise in 2017 because I also migrated from 11c to 12c. That was the migration in 2017 that I managed. The migration took a long time. It took two to three years to be able to literally migrate all the code that I had. So it was quite complex. To summarize it quickly, I would describe the product as complete, very powerful, and very capable. However, it is extremely complex because Oracle relies on their own framework to customize and develop and fine-tune the functionalities. It is not Java, it is not some public framework. It is Java-based more or less, but it has their own Oracle framework for development and that makes the product quite complex to harness.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It allows self-service business intelligence, empowering the users and decreasing their dependency on the IT people."
"The hyper-intelligence is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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 most valuable aspect of the solution is its non-stop application, as it continues to run so there are no interruptions to customers and it's able to reach many people."
"I'd say if any user or any set of users are looking to get more insights from the raw data that they have collected over the course of years, one of the best BI tools in terms of analytics and data management would be MicroStrategy."
"Most of my users are non-technical and usually a one-day hands-on session with the software allows them to easily begin to become analysts instead of report writers."
"The storage is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The self-service and the dossier components as well as the hyper intelligence."
"Oracle Identity manager is the best tool in the market for access managers."
"What I found most useful in Oracle Identity Governance, feature-wise, are provisioning, de-provisioning, and termination, and Oracle Identity Governance can also be easily integrated with non-Oracle products, which I find valuable."
"The solution helps us to define roles and get people to specific tasks; from this point of view, it is an amazing tool."
"The support service of Oracle is good; we use it a lot and their response is quick."
"The features I find most effective in Oracle Identity Governance include size and scale management, which is good for large organizations."
"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."
"Application access is provided to and removed from end users in a timely manner, which removes delays in the on-boarding/off-boarding process and also improves productivity and security."
"Oracle support is excellent."
 

Cons

"The Web Intelligence graphic capabilities can be improved."
"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."
"I don't think I would recommend this solution to others. There are better reporting solutions out there."
"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."
"Visual Insight/Desktop is trailing behind competitors such as Tableau or QlikView, which have more functionality."
"Scaling this solution can be difficult."
"The user interface needs improvement. It needs to be more intuitive."
"There are a lot of issues that occurred while I was using MicroStrategy."
"The user-friendliness of Oracle Identity Governance can be improved compared to other products."
"There are issues with stability in the long run."
"In customer identity management, the product suffers performance issues when scaled up to large numbers of users."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult compared to other tools."
"The solution needs to improve its web interface in the next release."
"Sometimes the support is not able to resolve our issues and they're often changing support engineers."
"I would rate Oracle Identity Governance a six because of complexity. Even though they have the ability to deliver and to execute, it is very monolithic and falling slightly behind compared to other products that are now built on microservices and are able to deliver much better and much easier results."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"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."
"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."
"The licensing is expensive."
"The cost of support and upgrading to the next release are both expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise46
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Identity Governance?
Whether Oracle Identity Governance is affordable or slightly expensive depends on the category. For a small-scale company or organization, I don't think it will be useful, but for a large-scale ent...
What needs improvement with Oracle Identity Governance?
I would describe the installation of Oracle Identity Governance on-premises as quite complex. Very complex. To install the product, it took us maybe three or four days to get it up and running just...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Identity Governance?
I am currently working on Oracle Identity Governance and Oracle Access Manager (OAM), as I am specialized in the IAM sphere and working on these two particular products from Oracle. I have implemen...
 

Also Known As

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

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