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August 8, 2025
Annual Report 2024-2025 Published
Read our latest annual report - an overview of our activity, performance and highlights for the financial year ending 31 March 2025.
July 29, 2025
Watch Now - The Innovation Circuit: The Breaker and the Builder - Million Dollar Bug Bounties with Ron Chan (Nova Security)
Ron Chan, a prolific bug bounty hunter, was featured in Forbes as one of the elite few to surpass $1 million in rewards from ethical hacking programs. Throughout his career, he's made high-impact submissions to platforms such as Uber, GitLab, Yahoo, Google, PayPal and Spotify. Fast forward to 2025, Ron uses his exceptional skill set to help New Zealand organisations identify and address security vulnerabilities - now serving as Principal Consultant at Nova Security.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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!)