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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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June 30, 2016
SQL tip #6: Scripting multiple SQL objects
Sometimes we need to script multiple SQL objects, either for deployment, documentation or quick search, eg to find SSIS package name.
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June 28, 2016
Theta at the movies: Finding Dory
It was a delight host our tenth annual family movie event earlier this month. This year we held three special preview screenings of the long anticipated sequel to Finding Nemo, Finding Dory.
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June 28, 2016
Changes in Logic Apps: Schema Refresh 2
With general availability of Logic Apps fast approaching the product team has increased the pace of implementing new features. Another incremental update to the Logic Apps Designer brought welcome functionality changes and user interface improvements, thanks to a new version of the Logic Apps definition schema.
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June 21, 2016
ERP software for the food industry through new partnership with SI Foodware
Theta has recently become the SI Foodware partner for New Zealand. We can now offer our food industry customers business and financial software that’s specifically designed for them.
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June 16, 2016
Discover advanced analytics: event in Christchurch
We're hosting a business-focused event in Christchurch this month. Come along to hear about how advanced analytics can help you transform your data into intelligent action through intuitive interactions and natural language questions.
June 15, 2016
SQL tip #5: Be prepared for SQL 2016
Did you know that in SQL Server 2016 you can now specify the location of the tempdb files during setup?
June 8, 2016
SQL tip #4: using output clause to return changed items
Did you know that you can use the output clause to return updated or inserted rows without having to select them again?
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June 2, 2016
Introducing SQL Server 2016 – the best SQL Server yet!
SQL Server 2016 enters general release today. To mark the occasion, we asked a couple of our SQL Server experts, Head of Microsoft Solutions and Architecture Rob Hawthorne, and Senior Consultant Richard Laing, what they consider to be the highlights of the new release.
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May 27, 2016
Taking a broader view with big data and analytics
This post is based on a presentation by Rob Hawthorne at the Customer 3.1 Conference in Auckland this week.
May 25, 2016
SQL tip #3: consider a table variable
Most developers know the # preceding a local temporary table very well, as temporary tables are really useful when you need to keep some stuff in a place for a moment while you do something else. But you may not know there are quite a lot of processes that go into making this table, or that these can really inhibit the reuse of execution plans. So a harmless #temp may be bloating your memory or putting extra pressure on your TempDB and you might not even know about it.