March 22, 2017

Lead vs Opportunity in CRM: what's in a word?

At Theta we’ve been discussing the difference between a lead and an opportunity recently. We also have customers who use the word prospect as part of their sales cycle and others use the term deal. What does each mean, and what is the difference? Getting this right for your business, understanding how Microsoft CRM views these record types, and connecting the two is an important part of setting up your CRM.

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March 17, 2017

Bots for government

We hosted a roundtable discussion on bots and how they can be used to deliver digital services for citizens at last month’s NZTech Advance Government and Technology Summit in Wellington.

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March 16, 2017

First Gas solution gets finalist nod in Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards

Microsoft New Zealand has announced the finalists in this year's Partner Awards. We’re delighted to make the shortlist with our Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 implementation for First Gas.

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March 16, 2017

Fundraising BBQs for Cure Kids

After the ARC Midnight Express race, the racing focus for our adventure race team this year, we got together to hear all about it – and raise some funds for Cure Kids.

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March 15, 2017

Microsoft Teams is here – and we’re excited!

Microsoft Teams is generally available today as part of all Office 365 commercial plans. Teams brings together people, conversations and content—along with the tools teams need—so they can easily collaborate to achieve more. It’s integrated with all your familiar Office applications and is built from the ground up on the Office 365 global, secure cloud.

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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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