Oracle Mobile Authenticator - Secure authentication & identity verification

Oracle Mobile Authenticator allows you to securely confirm your identity by utilizing your mobile device as a factor for authentication. The application produces a one-time passcode for logging in or can receive login notifications that can be approved with just a tap. When this method of authentication is combined with a username and password, it provides an essential additional layer of security necessary for contemporary online applications.

Features:

- Generate a one-time passcode even if the device is not connected to the internet

- Approval based on push notifications

- Protection for the app through fingerprint or PIN

- Setup options available via QR code, configuration URL, or manual key entry

- Support for multiple accounts

- Ability to generate OTPs for other applications that utilize passcodes according to RFC 6238

By installing this app, you acknowledge acceptance of the terms outlined in the End User License Agreement.

Please refer to Oracle's privacy policy for more information.

Guides

Set Up the Oracle Mobile Authenticator App as an Authentication Method

Enroll the Oracle Mobile Authenticator (OMA) app as a 2–step verification method.

When multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled, the first time that you log in, the Select Your Default 2-Step Verification Method flow appears after you enter your user name and password.

Enter your name and password to log in to an Oracle Identity Cloud Service console where 2-step verification has been enabled.

On the Enable 2-Step Verification introduction page, click Enable 2-Step Verification.

The authentication methods available to you appear on the Select Your Default 2-Step Verification Method page.

Click Mobile App.

You are prompted to download the Oracle Mobile Authenticator app from the app store.

After you install the OMA app, you need to link it to an account. You can add an account three ways:

1.Scan the Quick Response (QR) code

2.Enter the key manually

3.Use the enrollment URL

After you add the account using one of these methods, OMA app enrollment is complete.

Use the Oracle Mobile Authenticator App as an Authentication Method

After you enroll the Oracle Mobile Authenticator (OMA) app as a 2–Step Verification method, use it to provide a second method of verification to securely log in to applications.

1.Enter your user name and password in an MFA-protected environment.

The 2-Step Verification page appears, and then you are prompted for your second verification method.

2.The authentication method that appears depends on the MFA method that your administrator enabled:

If your administrator enabled both Mobile App OTP and Mobile App Notification, Mobile App Notification is the default method pushed to your phone for authentication.

a.Mobile App OTP

To avoid clock skew, which is the time difference between the server and your device, make sure that your device clock is synchronized. The maximum allowed time difference is 90 seconds.

You are prompted to enter the passcode that is generated by the OMA app on your mobile device.

Tap the OMA app on your device to launch it.

Tap the account for which you want to generate a new OTP. An OTP for the account appears, and the countdown begins until a new OTP is automatically generated.

Enter or paste that passcode into the Passcode box on the 2-Step Verification page, and then click Verify.

b.Mobile App Notification

You are prompted to open and respond to the notification that was sent to the OMA app on your mobile device.

Open the notification in the OMA app, and then tap Allow.

3.(Optional) Select the Trust this computer for _ days check box (if enabled by your administrator) to skip providing a second method of authentication for the number of days indicated when you log in from the same device. The number of days is defined by your administrator.

4.(Optional) If you are unable to use the OMA app, for example, you don’t have your phone with you, click Show alternative login methods to use an alternative method to verify your identity.

Note:

You must have previously set up more than one verification method, such as using a bypass code that you previously generated and stored in a safe place. If you haven’t set up more than one verification method, you can call the help desk and have a bypass code generated for you.

5.(Optional) You can also select Show alternative login methods to change your default verification method.

a.Click Show alternative login methods. All 2–Step Verification methods that you are enrolled in appear in the Alternative login methods section.

b.Select a different verification method. You are then prompted to enter the required verification for that method.

c.Enter the required verification.

d.Select the Make this my default method check box to set this 2-Step Verification method as your default. The next time that you log in, you are prompted to verify your identity using this method of verification.

Add Backup Verification Methods

When you need to log in and provide a second verification method, backup verification methods come in handy if you have left your device at home, for example.

To set up an additional method during Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enrollment, on the Successfully Enrolled page of the 2-Step Verification flow, select another method from the bottom of the page. You then walk through the enrollment process for that method. Alternatively, you can set up additional methods using your Oracle Identity Cloud Service My Profile console, Security tab.

Trust a Device

When you access an app for the first time using your 2-Step Verification method from your computer or a device, you have the option to flag your computer or device as trusted. Trusted devices don’t require you to provide a second method of authentication each time that you log in (for a defined time period that is set by your administrator).

This feature is similar to the “remember my computer” option that you often see during authentication on many web sites. When you log in and provide your second verification method, select the Trust this computer for _ days check box. That device is then listed in the Trusted Devices section of the Security tab in the Oracle Identity Cloud Service My Profile console. See Manage 2–Step Verification from the My Profile Console.

If you choose not to trust the computer, you are prompted for 2-Step Verification each time that you log in from that device. You have the opportunity each time that you log in to trust the computer or device.

NEWS

IBM and Oracle Expand Partnership to Advance Agentic AI and Hybrid Cloud

ARMONK, N.Y., May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with Oracle to bring the power of watsonx, IBM’s flagship portfolio of AI products, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Leveraging OCI’s native AI services, the latest milestone in IBM’s technology partnership with Oracle is designed to fuel a new era of multi-agentic, AI-driven productivity and efficiency across the enterprise.

Organizations today are deploying AI throughout their operations, looking to take advantage of the extraordinary advancements in generative AI models, tools, and agents. AI agents that can provide a single, easy-to-use interface to complete tasks are emerging as key tools to help simplify the deployment and use of AI across enterprise operations and functions. 

“AI delivers the most impactful value when it works seamlessly across an entire business,” said Greg Pavlik, executive vice president, AI and Data Management Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “IBM and Oracle have been collaborating to drive customer success for decades, and our expanded partnership will provide customers new ways to help transform their businesses with AI.”

Watsonx Orchestrate to support multi-agent workflows

To give customers a consistent way to build and manage agents across multi-agent, multi-system business processes, spanning both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources, IBM is making its watsonx Orchestrate AI agent offerings available on OCI in July. This multi-agent approach using wastonx Orchestrate is designed to work with the expansive AI agent offerings embedded within the Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, as well as OCI Generative AI Agents, and OCI’s other AI services. It extends the ecosystem around Oracle Fusion Applications to enable further functionality across third-party and custom applications and data sources. The first use cases being addressed are in human resources. The watsonx Orchestrate agents will perform AI inferencing on OCI, which many customers use to host their data, AI, and other applications.

IBM agents run in watsonx Orchestrate on Red Hat OpenShift on OCI, including in public, sovereign, government, and Oracle Alloy regions, to enable customers to address specific regulatory and privacy requirements. The agents can also be hosted on-premises or in multicloud environments for true hybrid cloud capabilities.

IBM Granite Models Hosted on OCI Data Science

To give customers more choice of fit-for-purpose, compact and efficient models, Oracle intends to make the IBM Granite family of AI models available through its OCI Data Science via AI Quick Actions. To streamline Granite access, the open-source Granite models are expected to be available within OCI as a cached LLM in the second half of this year.

“By integrating our AI with Oracle’s offerings, we’re enabling businesses to easily deploy and manage AI agents across their enterprise,” said Kareem Yusuf Ph.D, Senior Vice President, Ecosystem, Strategic Partners & Initiatives, IBM. “Our collaboration with Oracle illustrates how IBM and our partners offer clients a seamless and flexible path to scale AI.” 

IBM Software to be Available on OCI

Oracle and IBM also plan to make IBM Envizi ESG Suite available on OCI, with an initial release in Saudi Arabia expected within the next 12 months. IBM Envizi is an enterprise sustainability solution that automates the capture, management and reporting of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data.   

IBM’s watsonx.ai is now certified to run on OCI, enabling customers to leverage its industry-leading scalability and performance for bare metal and virtual machine instances with the benefits of the Red Hat OpenShift. Watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade developer studio for building, running, and managing AI applications. Bringing  watsonx.ai to OCI can help organizations develop AI services on OCI, where they may already have applications and data, and deploy them into their application of choice with a collection of the APIs, tools, models, and runtimes.

Expanded Oracle Services from IBM Consulting

IBM is introducing expanded consulting services to help customers turn enterprise strategy into enterprise outcomes by enabling the use of AI agents across multiple platforms to transform end-to-end business processes. Leveraging deep technology and industry expertise, IBM Consulting will help customers orchestrate their agentic ecosystem by integrating, building, and scaling AI agents, including native Oracle AI agents, watsonx Orchestrate AI agents, and agents from across IBM’s partner ecosystem. IBM Consulting will also advise customers on how AI agents impact enterprise operating models and the workforce, including change management and enabling new ways of working. IBM consultants bring deep expertise in transforming core business processes like HR and supply chain as well as capabilities in its AI-powered delivery platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, to deliver value quickly.

IBM Consulting is offering new services that leverage AI-powered assets and methods to help Oracle customers migrate their workloads from on-premises virtual machines to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on OCI bare metal cloud. This service helps customers migrate and modernize their infrastructure as they deploy with the proven virtualization of the OpenShift container platform running on OCI to provide flexible infrastructure for both legacy applications and AI and hybrid multicloud workloads.

IBM brings deep expertise in business transformation with OCI and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, backed by a 38-year strategic partnership spanning technology and services, thousands of consultants who are certified across core Oracle technologies, and the acquisitions of Oracle consultancies Accelalpha and Applications Software Technology LLC.

Oracle and IBM also intend to pilot a joint go-to-market approach in select markets to help bring these new services and capabilities to customers.

“Agents are becoming an important strategic advantage for organizations to optimize operations and deliver better customer and employee experiences,” said Ritu Jyoti, IDC General Manager and Group Vice President. “Today’s most advanced agents are able to interact across different systems and processes, unleashing greater productivity and driving wider adoption. The Agentic AI approach IBM is taking with Oracle is a leading example of how the ability to orchestrate agentic workflows across systems can drive significant advantages, streamlining how work gets done and unlocking growth and innovation.”

Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.