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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.
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.
February 14, 2018
Know your cyber risk
What is the cyber security risk profile of New Zealand organisations? What mechanisms are needed to make businesses more digitally secure? Adam Dodds of IDC addressed these questions and more at a recent series of events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
February 5, 2018
Putting research into action: innovation lab interns report back
Rose McColl and Alisha Thakkar have been working in our innovation lab over the summer, as part of their Master in Information Technology Degree at Auckland University. Their internship is coming to an end soon, so we wanted to catch up to find out how the summer has gone and what they have been working on.
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December 18, 2017
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber Security
Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides computers – or in the case of Mr Burns, monkeys (see clip below) - with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Computers use algorithms to learn from past data to predict what may happen (predictive analysis), and can adapt when exposed to new data.