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title: Organizations
slug: reference/organizations
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createdAt: 2025-09-03T12:03:20.205Z
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## Configuration

Available at `Configuration > Organizations`, when viewing or editing an organization, are the following fields:

### ID

**Description**: The UUID of your organization

### Name

**Description:** The name of your organization

### Description

**Description:** *Optionally enter a description*

### License

**Description:** Select an available license

:::hint{type="info"}
At a minimum, each Factry Historian instance will have 2 organizations: the organization created during the setup wizard and a root organization. The organization created during the setup wizard is like every other organization that can be created.
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## Root organization

The root organization is for system administrators. You cannot switch to this organization: you cannot create collectors, measurements and so on for this organization. It exists to be able to view/configure the following:

- General API and authentication settings
- View/create organizations
- View/create authentication providers
- Manage the license
- View application logs
- Manage the `_internal_factry` time series database

## How-Tos

- [Creating an organization](docId\:UT7IkcAMgr4VesrEMX2k8) 
- [Switching to an organization](docId:46JH2un7xsioYN8so5rYn)