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April 28, 2026
Why GenAI Proof of Concepts Fail in Production and How to Fix It
Moving from the early success of a promising GenAI demo/proof of concept to a reliable, scalable solution used every day across the business is often where the real challenge begins.
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April 15, 2026
Theta Adventure Racers Take on Kaikōura for Cure Kids
Our Theta Adventure Racers were back in action this month as they tackled the Kaikoura Adventure Race. This epic multisport challenge featured hiking, mountain biking, pack rafting, and navigation through the stunning Kaikōura region.
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April 15, 2026
Can Your People Spot a Vishing Attack in Real Time?
Attackers are increasingly targeting service desk and contact centre teams with convincing phone-based social engineering attacks designed to bypass security controls. Would your people recognise a vishing (phone-based phishing) attempt and respond correctly in the moment?
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March 26, 2026
Educating Whānau on Cyber Security: A New Weekly Series
Introducing Kiisha-Rose Woodhouse’s weekly Cyber Series, launched as part of her internship and the Theta Te Ao Māori Technology Scholarship.
January 22, 2026
Watch Now — The Innovation Circuit EP 9: A guide to data protection with Microsoft Purview during the AI revolution
In this episode, we’ll be discussing how to ensure your organisation’s sensitive data remains secure and confidential with Microsoft Purview.
November 12, 2025
What's New in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025: wave 2
Watch the Dynamics 365 Business Central update with Head of Dynamics 365, Joerg Rau.
October 2, 2025
Azure North Migration: FAQs Answered by Theta Specialists
Since December 2024, New Zealand organisations have been able to start migrating to Microsoft's Azure North Data Centre. But what questions are organisations asking first? Here are our top FAQs.
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October 13, 2016
Happy first birthday CRM!
Last week our Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice turned one. It's been an exciting and busy year!
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September 27, 2016
Workflows in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has been released with many new features which will cater for small to mid-sized businesses around the globe. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Workflows is one of the most exciting and anticipated functionalities introduced in the latest release.
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September 22, 2016
What is R?
Many business intelligence and big data tools provide integration with R, a tool first developed here in NZ 20 years ago. But what is R, how does it relate to data science and how can we best use it?
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September 21, 2016
Creating smart reports and applications with machine learning and R
The main users of machine learning and statistics modelling are data scientists. But other users, such as software developers, BI developers, and even business users through self-service BI, can benefit from machine learning and R in their projects. By connecting these tools, they can bring statistics, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis into applications and ultimately develop smarter products and services. In this post, I will show how Microsoft makes it easy for different users to connect and use machine learning and statistics in their reports and applications.
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August 25, 2016
Inline hockey and design: a winning combo
Continuing our series of Theta staffers doing interesting things outside of work, this month we meet Joe Dowman, Theta’s Wellington-based graphic designer. When not working his design magic, Joe plays and coaches inline hockey, which last month took him to Hawaii as a NZ coach at the AAU Inline Hockey Junior Olympics.
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August 18, 2016
2015-16 Annual Report published
We have just published our latest annual report - an overview of our activity, performance and highlights for the financial year ending 31 March 2016.
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August 18, 2016
What is Azure Machine Learning, why should we use it and how is it helpful?
Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a fully managed cloud service that enables us to easily build, deploy, and share descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions. In this post I’ll give an overview of these three main types of analysis.
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August 17, 2016
1, 2, Free! DIY BI, ETL spring clean and integration accelerator
Want to DIY your BI? Spring clean your ETL? Or accelerate your integration? Choose one of Theta’s three-day readiness assessments to get you under way. Book now, pay for two days, and the third day is free.
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August 4, 2016
Logic Apps Reaches General Availability
Logic Apps reached General Availability on Azure on 27 July 2016. This represents a fantastic effort by the Logic Apps product team, with many much-needed improvements to the user interface, tooling, performance and connectivity. Here is a summary of the improvements, and some information about migrating from existing schemas.
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July 8, 2016
First class MicroStrategy user conference
New Zealand’s third MicroStrategy user conference was held in Auckland last month, hosted by Air New Zealand in their state of the art Customer Collaboration & Innovation Centre in Beaumont St. The facility boasts a full scale replica of the cabin of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Attendees enjoyed trying out the first class seats!