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title: Taking Inventory of Your Organization (Windows 10)
description: This section provides information about how to use the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to identify applications and devices that are installed in your organization.
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# Taking Inventory of Your Organization


**Applies to**

-   Windows 10
-   Windows 8.1
-   Windows 8
-   Windows 7
-   Windows Server 2012
-   Windows Server 2008 R2

This section provides information about how to use the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to identify applications and devices that are installed in your organization.

## In this section


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<td align="left"><p>[Identifying Computers for Inventory Collection](identifying-computers-for-inventory-collection.md)</p></td>
<td align="left"><p>An inventory-collector package gathers inventory data from the computers on which it is installed. This data includes the following:</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p>[Creating an Inventory-Collector Package](creating-an-inventory-collector-package.md)</p></td>
<td align="left"><p>You can use Application Compatibility Manager (ACM) to create an inventory-collector package. You can then deploy the inventory-collector package to other computers to gather inventory data. The package uploads inventory data to the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) database.</p></td>
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<td align="left"><p>[Deploying an Inventory-Collector Package](deploying-an-inventory-collector-package.md)</p></td>
<td align="left"><p>You can use the following methods to deploy an inventory-collector package to the destination computers:</p></td>
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## Related topics


[Testing Compatibility on the Target Platform](testing-compatibility-on-the-target-platform.md)

[Managing Your Data-Collection Packages](managing-your-data-collection-packages.md)

[Analyzing Your Compatibility Data](analyzing-your-compatibility-data.md)

[Fixing Compatibility Issues](fixing-compatibility-issues.md)