# About organizations

> An organization represents a fully isolated environment, where you can manage all your automation needs and resources. It's essentially your dedicated space within the UiPath platform to operate, customize, and control as per your specific requirements.

An organization represents a fully isolated environment, where you can manage all your automation needs and resources. It's essentially your dedicated space within the UiPath platform to operate, customize, and control as per your specific requirements.

The documentation covers several organization options that you can configure to adapt to your specific needs.

1. **Authentication and Security**: Documentation lays out the various authentication methods and means to ensure platform security.
2. **Licensing**: Documentation explains the different types of licenses UiPath offers, their usage, and activation processes.
3. **Accounts and Roles**: Documentation explains how to create and manage roles and users to govern permissions and access to platform features effectively.
4. **External Applications**: Documentation explains how to integrate third-party applications, including authorizing external applications links, and consuming platform APIs.
5. **Notifications**: Documentation describes setting preferences for email and in-product notifications. For administrators, it explains how to set up, assign and manage the notification system.
6. **Logging**: Documentation explains how to use logs effectively for auditing and troubleshooting.
7. **Troubleshooting:** Documentation offers practical strategies on how to diagnose and resolve common issues.

## Organization admin portal

The **Admin** area at the organization level is where you can view and manage organization administrator accounts, organization authentication settings, organization system email settings, and other security settings. Only organization administrators (logged in to the organization) can access the organization **Admin** area.

To access the **Admin** area, navigate to the **Login** page at `https://AutomationSuiteURL/` and log in to the `organization` with your organization administrator credentials. Once logged in, navigate to **Admin** from the left rail.

## Signing in to the administration portals

1. Navigate to the **Login** page. The **Login** page opens.

   Figure 1. Login page

   
   
2. For the **Organization name**, type `host` to access the host portals, or the name of your specific organization to access a specific organization portal.

   If a different organization is already set, select **Change** next to its name to specify a different organization name:

   

3. In the **Username or email** and **Password** fields, type your administrator credentials.
4. Select **Log In** and you are redirected to the appropriate portal.