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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.
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
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July 19, 2017
New Microsoft customer story: First Gas connects “spaghetti bowl” of systems in just four months
Our work with First Gas is featured in a new customer story by the Microsoft Cloud + Enterprise team, highlighting Theta’s involvement as the integration, NAV, CRM and analytics partner on the project.
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July 4, 2017
Integrate 2017 in review
"The body of a corporate event, with the heart and soul of a community group meeting." I think this is the best way I can describe the feeling of attending the 2017 edition of Integrate. The team at BizTalk 360, drawing support from the Microsoft Professional Integration Team and the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) community, created once more an event that is really the reference event for the Microsoft Integration Industry.
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June 29, 2017
Cyber Security: attack surface
In my last post I discussed some of the wider aspects of cyber security in an attempt to abstract the discussion from pure IT security. This time around I thought it would be helpful to delve into a couple of concepts that make it easier to focus our limited defences rather than trying to defend against all the threats all of the time. Cyber defence is a zero-sum game and time spent doing one thing means it can’t be spent doing something else.
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June 21, 2017
Theta at the Movies: Despicable Me 3
We welcomed customers and their families to our eleventh annual family movie event last weekend. This year we held three special preview screenings of animated crowd pleaser Despicable Me 3.
June 20, 2017
ShadowTech Day at Theta
Last month we hosted two secondary school students at our Auckland office as part of ShadowTech Day 2017.
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June 1, 2017
Cyber Security: let’s talk about terminology
A few years ago I was on the team that developed the UK’s Cyber Doctrine for the Ministry of Defence. One of the first tasks was to agree on a common lexicon, then map similar terms across different organisations and discard any legacy terms to avoid confusion. No other government department had decided to implement a common framework for cyber security, let alone define a common language to be used. This was a bit of a first.
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May 23, 2017
Marketing Automation – and the impact of WannaCry
As both an enabler and recipient of marketing automation activities, I’ve been very aware of the impact of recent cyber security events on email marketing, on both sides of the fence.