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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 2, 2020
Tenancy property management using Dynamics 365 Field Service
Dynamics 365 Field Service is an ideal solution for tenancy managers who need easy access to the right information when they're out on the road or back in the office.
April 28, 2020
EVA Check-in: helping businesses with guest registration
EVA Check-in is now available in response to emerging COVID-19 requirements; a secure, contactless way of checking in individuals who enter your premises, whether it's customers, visitors, contractors or staff.
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March 31, 2020
The data debt that comes back to bite us when we least need it
Everyone knows that information is power, and that accurate, timely and actionable insights are even more powerful. When the economic situation we live in is healthy, and there is certainty, a lot of companies and organisations take this for granted or even ignore it.
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March 30, 2020
COVID-19 Lockdown and 100% Working Remotely
27/2/21 - After the recent government announcement, we are back to level 3 conditions in Auckland and level 2 in all other regions of the country. We remain 100% operational over this time. 14/2/21 - After the recent government announcement, we are now operating under level 3 conditions in Auckland and level 2 in all other regions of the country. We remain 100% operational over this time. 21/09/20 - We continue to operate at nationwide alert level 1. 12/08/20 - After the recent government announcement, we are now operating under level 3 conditions in Auckland and level 2 in all other regions of the country. We remain 100% operational over this time. 09/06/20 - We remain 100% operational during COVID-19 alert level 1. 14/05/20 - We remain 100% operational during COVID-19 alert level 2. 01/04/20 - ESSENTIAL SERVICE PROVIDER UPDATE We've been confirmed as an essential service provider and part of the critical services that ensure businesses and workers can continue working from home. Our operations will be carried out in a way that minimises the risk of COVID-19 transmission and we'll continue to support government advice. Thanks for your ongoing support over this time.
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.