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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.