Preservica Awarded G‑Cloud 14 Framework Contract, Simplifying Access to Digital Preservation Software for UK Government
Oxford, UK, Boston, MA, 14th Nov 2024 – Preservica, leaders in Active Digital Preservation™ archiving, has announced the availability of its cloud-hosted Digital Preservation software on G-Cloud 14, the leading UK Government purchasing framework for cloud services and software. New on G-Cloud 14 is the inclusion of Preserve365®, Preservica’s embedded archiving and Digital Preservation solution for Microsoft 365.
Preservica’s software, which is already used extensively throughout UK Central and Local Government, ensures critical long-term digital records remain secure, reliable, complete and retrievable over decades in alignment with obligations under the UK Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Existing customers include the UK Cabinet Office, the UK National Archives, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and nearly 50 UK local authority Records Offices and Archives.
G-Cloud 14 availability
Preservica now has two cloud-hosted digital records preservation options available on the G-Cloud 14 Digital Marketplace:
Preservica Professional Edition – includes an array of powerful capabilities to enable central and local government information professionals to simplify and automate the Active Digital Preservation and online publishing of long-term and permanent digital records for compliance, FOI and improved citizen services
Preserve365 Professional for UK Government – enables government organizations to standardize and automate the transfer, Digital Preservation and retrieval of long-term records as part of everyday Microsoft SharePoint workflows
Speed, automation and efficiency
These solutions can also be enhanced with ready-configured folders, metadata and workflows to enable record-keeping teams to rapidly create a trusted repository for managing and protecting many different types of long-term government records and digital formats including:
Democratic services - councils and committees
Adult & children services
Planning land and property
Transportation and infrastructure
Registrations
Historical
Assured long-term access to trusted government records
In addition both solutions use Preservica’s unique Active Digital Preservation platform to automatically ensure critical long-term digital records remain secure, reliable, complete and retrievable over decades. This eliminates compliance risk by ensuring records are always instantly accessible in readable and trusted file formats by departments for operational needs, enquiries or FOI handling.
A built-in citizen portal also enables public records to be quickly and securely published online for more effective services and greater transparency. Connections to other common UK government applications and catalogue software are also available.
"Preservica is proud to have been a trusted supplier of cloud-hosted digital preservation for UK government organizations for over a decade starting with G-Cloud 2 in 2012” said Mike Quinn, CEO of Preservica. "As open and digital government creates new challenges in capturing, protecting, and making long-term digital information accessible, public sector institutions are under increasing pressure to enhance efficiency and transparency. The need for sustainable and automated digital preservation is growing each year, and we’re excited to see more local and central government agencies choosing Preservica’s software to meet these evolving needs."
For more information on how Preservica can support your organization, visit our listings Professional Edition and Preserve365 listings on the G-Cloud 14 Digital Marketplace.
About Crown Commercial Service (CCS)
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency of the UK Government, supporting the public sector in procuring a wide range of goods and services. The CCS G-Cloud framework is designed to make it easier for public sector organisations to access and implement cloud technologies through approved suppliers. For more
information visit www.crowncommercial.gov.uk
About Preservica
Preservica is changing the way thousands of organizations around the world protect and re-use long-term digital information.
Preservica's unique Active Digital Preservation™ archiving software automatically keeps every file alive in future-friendly formats over decades to ensure that critical, high-value information can always be quickly found and actioned for FOI, compliance, legal, brand, knowledge reuse and cultural needs.
The UK National Archives, Texas State Library and Archives, MoMA, Yale and HSBC are some of the leading corporations, archives, libraries, museums and government organizations around the world that trust their data protection and future-proofing to Preservica. For more information, visit https://preservica.com/.
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