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March 12, 2026
Strengthening Theta’s AI Capability with Two New Specialists
As organisations increasingly look to AI to unlock efficiency, insight, and innovation, the demand for practical, scalable AI solutions continues to grow. To support our customers on this journey, we’re pleased to welcome two new AI specialists to Theta, who will also contribute to our existing GenAI Centre of Excellence.
March 4, 2026
Tech Trends Shaping Business in 2026
Businesses are navigating a rapidly evolving tech landscape. At Theta, we explored these trends in a two-part podcast series, drawing on insights from a series of executive events held across the country. Attendees used a custom web app to swipe right for trends they see as relevant in the next 12 months, giving us a real-time snapshot of what business leaders are prioritising. Here’s a summary of the key tech trends for 2026 identified by New Zealand business leaders.
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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April 13, 2018
Directions Asia 2018 Bangkok: MVPs report back
Directions is the biggest Microsoft Dynamics NAV conference in the world, and was held for the second time in Asia, on 15th and 16th March in Bangkok. It’s an independent conference for Microsoft Dynamics partners from the ERP and CRM channels focusing on the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, organised by partners, with the help of Microsoft.
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April 11, 2018
AI-Day - inspiring and igniting New Zealand's AI capability
AI-DAY was a full-day conference held at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter. Leaders in every sector gathered, keen to learn how AI will impact their organisation and the world around them. Analytics technical lead Konrad Jarocinski reports back from the day.
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April 5, 2018
2018 Cure Kids Great Adventure Race Report
On Saturday 17th March our adventure race team lined up in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race.
March 27, 2018
Global Integration Bootcamp kicks off in Auckland
This year's Global Integration Bootcamp kicked off in Auckland on Saturday 24 March 2018. The community-driven event, the second of its kind, happened around the clock in 15 locations across 10 countries worldwide.
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March 16, 2018
NAVTip #7: Controlling the Unposted Document Warning
The unposted document warning was introduced as a new feature in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017. Whenever a user opens or enters a document, such as a Sales Invoice or Purchase Invoice, and then closes the window without posting the document, Microsoft Dynamics NAV warns that the document had not been posted, and asks if they would still like to close the document page.
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March 15, 2018
Meet our Cure Kids Great Adventure Race team for 2018
The countdown is on to the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race 2018, happening this Saturday in the Hunua Ranges. For the sixth time we are fielding a team of four adventurers in this 5-7 hour challenging event.
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March 12, 2018
MicroStrategy World 2018 - vision for the intelligent enterprise
Michael Saylor, President, Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy presented his vision for the future Intelligent Enterprise during his key note speech at MicroStrategy World 2018 held in Las Vegas this year. Sefton Thesing attended the conference, and reports back on some of the highlights.
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March 7, 2018
New white paper on cyber threats
We collaborated with other industry specialists to contribute to this new white paper on the evolution of cyber threats – one of the few authoritative documents about the impact of cyber security issues in the New Zealand context.
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February 21, 2018
Continuous integration and delivery with Team Services and App Center
Recently we launched a new mobile app called Yuppl. It’s an app for 1:1 meetings that helps you have better work conversations. It provides structure to your 1:1s to keep you talking about the right things, and taking action when you said you would.
February 19, 2018
Tauranga Hackathon: Data Science for Financial Portfolios
Last month, consultants from our analytics and innovation lab teams were part of a hackathon at Craigs Investment Partners in Tauranga.