Preserve Today Newsletter January 2026
2026 is shaping up to be an exciting and transformative year for Digital Preservation. AI continues to move quickly, and integrated, AI-assisted tools are becoming part of everyday workflows, helping organizations save time, automate routine tasks and manage digital records with greater ease and confidence.
To get you started for the year ahead, we have gathered some of our most popular and practical resources, including expert insights, guides and best practices. You will also find a schedule of upcoming events and webinars, all designed to support you and help set the tone for a successful 2026. Â
Building your knowledge
Decommissioning legacy systemsÂ
In this blog, we explore retiring legacy systems to cut costs, reduce risk and unlock the value of long-term digital content.
Supercharge your AI skillsÂ
Watch our highly-rated workshop series and build practical knowledge in applying AI to your archive.
AIIM eBook
A practical guide for IT leaders to reduce Microsoft 365 risk, protect long-term data and assess preservation readiness.
Preserve365 Education Series
With expert-led sessions, learn to transform Microsoft 365 content from compliance risk to strategic value.
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Enhancing your Preservica journey
In 2025, we enhanced our support, training and products as well as updated our Knowledge Base and relaunched our Product Ideas scheme.
Now it is time to check in with our customers and see how we are doing! The Preservica User Survey went out this week, and we are excited to use your feedback to shape our plans for 2026.
You can explore all the improvements we made in 2025 on the Community Hub.
If you have not received the survey email, please contact your account manager to participate.
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Protecting academic and cultural digital records for the future
Both Aalto University and the National Theatre transformed fragmented digital collections into unified, future-ready archives with Preservica.
By centralizing diverse content and standardizing metadata, each organization made digital assets easier to find, manage and preserve while integrating long-term Active Digital Preservation into daily workflows and ensuring cultural and academic records remain accessible and future-ready.
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Integrating AI & embedded preservation
AI tools to streamline everyday archival workflows
Through 2026 we will be rolling out our suite of integrated AI-powered tools, providing human-centered and trusted AI assistance to streamline everyday archival tasks and workflows. From automated enrichment to saving hours of work with integrated transcription services - look out for announcements coming soon!
Better together: Microsoft 365 Archive & Preserve365
We are expanding our collaboration with Microsoft by integrating Active Digital Preservation into Microsoft 365 Archive. Preserve365 now enables seamless archiving and long-term preservation of high-value SharePoint sites.Â
Collaborating with Microsoft
"Folks often ask me about the difference between archiving and preservation, how they work together, and why organisations need both. Some great collaboration with our partners at Preservica helps answer that." –Ian Story, Microsoft Principal  Architect, One Drive & SharePoint
Understand the difference and learn how Preserve365 and Microsoft 365 Archive work better together in this Microsoft blog.
Upcoming events
ARA & IRMS Education Series
Jan 13 - Feb 24 | Online
From Dark Data to Intelligent Discovery
Jan 15 | Online
NAGARA Sponsor Solution Series
Jan 22 | Online
Microsoft 365 Archive + Preserve365 Webinar
Jan 28 | Online
ARMA InfoNext 2026
Apr 19 - 22 | Phoenix, AZ
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Preservica Trust Center
Explore our Trust Center to see how Preservica meets security, compliance, privacy and accessibility standards, including SOC 2 and ISO certifications.
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