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February 12, 2026
Securing your data for the age of AI: Lessons from our Microsoft Purview journey
In the latest episode of our podcast The Innovation Circuit, we unpacked what we learned from implementing Microsoft Purview sensitivity labelling and data protection, both internally and with our customers. The journey wasn’t always smooth, but the lessons were invaluable. Here’s what we learned.
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January 29, 2026
Five Power BI updates that deliver real business value
Every month, Microsoft releases Power BI updates and announcements. Some introduce new capabilities, some improve existing ones, and some are simply informative. For business users and business analysts, keeping up with all of them, and knowing which ones truly matter, is both time-consuming and unrealistic. This blog highlights my top five Power BI updates from June 2025 to January 2026 that deliver the greatest business value.
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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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!)
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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.