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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.
October 27, 2017
New Tauranga Office
Theta is opening a fourth New Zealand office, in Tauranga, signalling a strong commitment to our growing customer base in the Bay of Plenty and surrounding areas. The Durham Street premises will become a permanent hub for operations in this region.
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October 27, 2017
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Tenerife: New Features
Many of the new features coming in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Tenerife were showcased at this month’s Directions EMEA conference in Madrid. Our Head of ERP, Joerg Rau, shares some of the highlights.
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October 27, 2017
Microsoft Dynamics NAV = Microsoft Dynamics 365- Tenerife
At this month’s Directions EMEA conference in Madrid, we saw the exciting future of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, where the best features of cloud and on premises versions come together. Here our Head of ERP, Joerg Rau, shares some of the key announcements from the conference.
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October 27, 2017
Developing for HoloLens: Tips, tricks, and technical challenges
For the past couple of months, Theta’s innovation lab has been lucky enough to be exploring the possibilities of mixed reality with Microsoft HoloLens. We’ve learned a few things along the way…
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October 24, 2017
Mixed reality for education, exhibition and industry: HoloLens use cases
For the past couple of months, Theta’s innovation lab has been lucky enough to be exploring use cases for the Microsoft HoloLens. Here, Tim King talks about some of the things we have been working on.
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October 18, 2017
IoT SensorTag to Power BI via Streaming Analytics
One of our core innovation lab activities is researching, learning, testing and developing new products with new technologies. By playing with the latest tech, we get a sense of how it might be applied and used. Here's a recent experiment with IoT sensors, by Jim Taylor, Theta's Emerging Technologies Architect.
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September 27, 2017
Power up your analytics with new Power BI training
Microsoft Power BI is a suite of cloud-based business analytics tools that gives you a 360-degree view of your most important data. We’re now offering tailored Power BI training to help you get started or power up your Power BI use and make the most of your data.
September 27, 2017
Generating solutions at Genesis Hackathon
Four Theta consultants participated in the second Genesis Hackathon, held this month at the Huntly Power Station. The focus of the event was generation and wholesale, and a wide range of ideas were explored over the course of the weekend.
September 12, 2017
Innovation lab working with Newlands Intermediate on HoloLens exhibition tech
Theta’s innovation lab is kicking off a new collaboration exploring the frontiers of virtual and augmented reality with a group of students from Newlands Intermediate School.
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September 11, 2017
Using Artificial Intelligence to find wine, with Microsoft Cognitive Services and Wine-Searcher
We recently organised an AI-focused hackathon with Wine-Searcher – a NZ tech company dedicated to finding and pricing wine – where we explored how chatbots, computer vision, image, speech and voice recognition could be used to enhance customer experience using Microsoft Cognitive Services.