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News & Blogs
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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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.
August 17, 2017
2016-17 Annual Report Published
We have just published our latest annual report - an overview of our activity, performance and highlights for the financial year ending 31 March 2017.
August 15, 2017
Microsoft Gold Partner: Cloud Platform
Recognising our substantial experience implementing solutions in the cloud, we have recently achieved Microsoft Gold Partner status in the Cloud Platform competency. This takes our Microsoft Gold partner competency count to seven.
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August 14, 2017
Cyber Security: targeting
“Only amateurs attack machines, professionals target people” Bruce Schneier