October 27, 2016

Microsoft Ignite NZ 2016: Keynote highlights

It's a big week in tech here in Auckland, as New Zealand's largest tech conference, Ignite, comes to town. The opening keynote is always a whizz-bang highlight, showcasing what's next in tech. We asked some Theta's many Ignite attendees to share the things they were excited about.

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October 25, 2016

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 is here!

The new release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is here, on time according to Microsoft’s annual release cycle. There were some speculations during the year about the name of this release as other terms are floating around like “Project Madeira” and “Dynamics 365”. Let’s clarify these terms and products first before we look deeper into the new features of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017.

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October 14, 2016

New automated external defibrillator (AED)

Theta now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in our Auckland office. 15 staff as well as two from a neighbouring firm have attended a CPR/AED training session, and we’ve informed our close neighbours that we have an AED available for use if required.

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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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