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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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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.
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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!