March 10, 2017

Genesis Energy Hackathon reimagines customer experiences

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s recent Data Platform Hackfest, six Theta consultants participated in the Genesis Energy Hackathon last weekend. In just 48 hours, 11 teams worked to “reimagine the customer experience through the use of mobile and digital technologies”.

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February 22, 2017

ARC Midnight Express – race report

This year, with no Cure Kids Great Adventure Race to compete in, Theta’s keen adventure racers decided instead of taking a year off to up the ante by entering Adventure Racing Coromandel’s Midnight Express. Kicking off at midnight last Saturday, and finishing some 18 hours later, the team had some tales to tell back at work this week.

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February 14, 2017

Getting ready for the ARC Midnight Express

Our adventure racers have found a new challenge this year. The ARC Midnight Express, as its name suggests, starts just after midnight, and covers 148.5 kilometres, so some training is required!

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February 9, 2017

Two Microsoft MVPs for 2017

We’re delighted to have two Microsoft MVPs working at Theta this year. These awards are given to exceptional technical community leaders who share their remarkable passion, real-world knowledge and technical expertise with others through demonstration of exemplary commitment.

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February 2, 2017

Microsoft Data Platform Hackfest

Theta was selected by Microsoft as the exclusive partner to support and mentor customer teams at their data platform hackfest last month. Mentors from our digital and BI teams provided advice and technical expertise to participating customer teams across a range of technologies during the week-long event.

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December 21, 2016

First look: Microsoft Dynamics 365 for CRM users

During November Microsoft unveiled and provided a first look at Dynamics 365, showing off the capabilities customers can expect from the latest generation of intelligent business applications. In this post I’ll focus on what these changes mean for Microsoft Dynamics CRM users.

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December 20, 2016

SharePoint 2016 Upgrade Planning

In my last post, What’s new for SharePoint 2016 on premises, I talked about some of the new features of the SharePoint platform. Now I am going to look at how you can plan your move from your current version to the latest version.

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December 18, 2016

Solving data warehouse problems with Cortana Analytics

Adrian Simpson, Theta Analytics Practice Lead, recently attended the first ever Cortana Analytics Workshop at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. At the workshop he heard from some of the Microsoft developers working on the various components of the Cortana Analytics suite, and had the opportunity to get some hands on experience too.

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December 14, 2016

Introduction to Logic Apps

Logic Apps is the Azure Integration Platform as a Server (iPaaS) solution from Microsoft. It aims to automate business processes connecting to systems that exist both in the cloud and on-premises, by orchestrating calls to system APIs, using a vast set of out-of-the-box connectors plus a large number of Microsoft Azure resources. Logic Apps also allows you to use your own APIs and legacy web services, leveraging your existing services and APIs ecosystem.

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December 1, 2016

Theta tour of Auckland: second edition

It’s been 2 years since our first sightseeing bus tour and in that time we’ve had a number of people join our Auckland office who were new to New Zealand. The first Auckland sightseeing tour had been a hit, so we decided it was time to do it again!

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