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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) (10th), Identity Governance Administration (IGA) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Mobile Identity category, the mindshare of MicroStrategy Usher is 17.7%, down from 20.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Identity Governance is 22.0%, down from 33.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mobile Identity Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Identity Governance22.0%
MicroStrategy Usher17.7%
Other60.3%
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

"This solution is very stable."
"The solution is definitely scalable."
"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."
"It has a robust engine compared to other BI tools available in the market."
"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."
"MicroStrategy fits best in an enterprise setup."
"Overall, the solution is an easy product to use."
"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 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."
"I can say that RBAC, or role-based access control is the most reliable feature."
"Because OIM has a Java API, you can develop scripts and automate tasks, and integration with other products written in Java is easy, more or less."
"It has streamlined user account lifecycle management and single sign on."
"It brings centralized management of all the identities for the E-Business Suite; that's the central feature."
"There are many valuable features, most notably Single Sign-On, Identity Management, and Identity Connector Framework, which can be implemented to provision with diverse interfaces."
"Rich authorization engine for delegated adminRobust workflow capability with BPML engineExtensive connector supportDiagnostics are pretty good"
 

Cons

"Visual Insight/Desktop is trailing behind competitors such as Tableau or QlikView, which have more functionality."
"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 pricing needs improvement."
"There are a lot of issues that occurred while I was using MicroStrategy."
"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."
"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."
"Our issues with the solution have to do with the integration with different applications."
"One of the areas that need some improvement with Oracle specifically is the ease of implementation."
"My pain point was while migrating my current user base."
"I would like to see more segregation managed through Oracle Identity Manager."
"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."
"Technical support is horrible. It is faster to find the resolution ourselves than rely on support."
"My contacts with them have been very poor in terms of resolution and complication."
"The solution requires too much infrastructure and should be less code-heavy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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