January 21, 2020

The 'Future of Work' and the NZ AI Opportunity

The World Economic Forum projects that from 2018 to 2022, 133 million jobs will be created by new technologies (not just AI), almost twice as many as the jobs that will become displaced.

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Theta

November 27, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 3: Predictive Maintenance with Azure Databricks

In this post, we will detail the R analyses we conducted on our Predictive Maintenance dataset from post 2 to help our digital twin projects make more informed maintenance suggestions.

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Theta

November 27, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 4: Writing Databricks' Predictive Maintenance Results to Blob

In this post, we will detail how we committed our results from part 3 to Azure Blob Storage so it's accessible to our Digital Twins project.

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Theta

November 26, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 2: Setting up Azure Databricks for Predictive Maintenance

In this post, we will elaborate upon Azure Databricks, and explain how we set it up to prepare for Predictive Maintenance of our digital twin’s corresponding real-life assets.

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Theta

November 25, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 1: Harnessing Data and Predictive Maintenance to Enhance Digital Twins

Part 1 of a 4-part series about displaying Predictive Maintenance insights in Digital Twins, using Azure Databricks. Before we get into the setup details, we’ll introduce the concept of Predictive Maintenance and the tools we used to make predictions.

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Theta

October 31, 2019

Event wrap up: MicroStrategy user group conference 2019

One of Auckland’s most iconic buildings, The ClockTower at the University of Auckland, was the impressive venue for this year’s MicroStrategy NZ User Group Conference.

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Theta

October 10, 2019

Directions EMEA 2019

I’m on my way to Directions EMEA with my colleague Wagner Silveira. This is my first time in Vienna and also to Directions EMEA. Wagner and I presented in the last two Directions ASIA conferences, but I’m sure the vibe is totally different in Directions EMEA.

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Theta

September 19, 2019

2019 Microsoft NZ Partner Award Finalists

Theta has been named a finalist in the 2019 Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards in 4 categories; Engaging Customers, Business Applications, Azure Migrate and Optimising Operations.

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Theta

September 6, 2019

Adventuring into 2020

You may already know that we’ve been avid supporters of the Cure Kids Great Adventure Races over the past few years and have competed in them since 2012. Unfortunately, these Great Adventure races came to an end in 2018. While this could have been a perfect opportunity to get a bit of rest & relaxation, our adventurers didn’t want to stop (and chief adventurer, Alan Moore, simply wouldn’t have allowed it!)

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Theta

August 28, 2019

Self-Service Analytics: is it about to self-destruct?

Self-service analytics is a growing trend. It’s easy to see why companies are jumping on board with this, but there is an inherent risk to be aware of before going full steam ahead.

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Theta