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May 1, 2025
Watch Now - The Innovation Circuit: Vishing | Deepfakes | Anthropic Research
Welcome back! The Innovation Circuit is the virtual panel discussion where our Theta experts discuss the latest news and updates in the world of tech. Today we're talking about vishing, deepfakes and some of the newest Anthropic research. Plus, we welcome new panellist, Jim Taylor - Emerging Technologies Architect at Theta.

September 24, 2024
Launching Our GenAI Centre of Excellence
We’re excited to launch our Generative AI Centre of Excellence (GenAI CoE). Our mission is to give customers access to the most advanced insights and technology in Generative AI, helping them keep up in this rapidly evolving field and achieve sustainable AI success in their organisation.
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April 11, 2024
Upgrading from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud?
The triggers for moving to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud are commonly around similar themes: flexibility to scale up and down, cost control, better integration with other core systems and tighter security.

March 16, 2020
Rookie recap: the 8-hour Cure Kids adventure race
On Saturday 7th March, our Theta race team of 4 took part in their annual Adventure Race. This time around, they travelled to the beautiful Coromandel to compete in the new 8-Hour Cure Kids category that we’d been working alongside Cure Kids and Adventure Race Coromandel to set up. To date, we’ve raised over $126k for Cure Kids with this race being another addition to our fundraising efforts.

March 16, 2020
5 Quick questions with the Master's students
During their time at Theta, they were placed into different areas of Theta – Kien in Analytics and Crystal in Project Delivery. As expected, good things happen when you combine the latest academic knowledge and an innovative environment! But don't just take our word for it, here's what Crystal and Kien had to say about their experience over the past ten weeks.Here are the 5 questions we had for Crystal and Kien:
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March 9, 2020
Top 3 best practices for dashboard design
An increasing number of organisations are adopting self-service BI, leading to the production of more reports and dashboards. Unfortunately, this often equates to a lack of governance and data literacy. Many people creating these reports and dashboards often have little formal training in the analytics space, leading to an abundance of visualisation artefacts that don’t adhere to some of the fundamental dashboard design best practices.
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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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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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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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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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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.

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.