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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.
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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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November 29, 2016
Red Nose Day fundraisers for Cure Kids and Red Cross Kaikoura earthquake appeal
We raised a stunning $1,711 for Cure Kids at two Red Nose Day fundraising lunches in Auckland and Christchurch, with Wellington staff supporting the cause too with online donations. It was great to see so many people get into the spirit of the day – like the red nose wearing members of the project office pictured here.
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November 29, 2016
“I like solving problems.” Meet Saipriya Krishna, our new BI Manager and Location Manager in Wellington
Saipriya Krishna (known to most as Sai) has recently taken on the dual roles of BI Manager and Location Manager in Wellington. Moments into the new roles, the Kaikoura earthquake struck. This has kept her busy - making sure her team were safe and had a safe place to work. Now the dust is settling, it seemed like a good opportunity to get to know Sai a bit better…
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November 21, 2016
Internet of things (IoT) with Cortana, Raspberry Pi and a weather sensor
In this post Leila Etaati explores the internet of things to see how we can collect information from different devices, sensors and applications, track data changes via software and even react to those changes. Then we can use machine learning to further analyse the data.
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November 15, 2016
What’s new for SharePoint 2016 on premises
SharePoint has undergone many changes since its first release in 2001. Now with its latest on-premises version (SharePoint Server 2016) released, organisations should be looking at how to move their existing SharePoint 2013 platform to the latest 2016 version along with solutions built on the platform.
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November 4, 2016
SharePoint to O365 migration made easy
We're partnering with AvePoint to bring you an informative session on migrating Microsoft SharePoint the easy way.
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November 2, 2016
MicroStrategy Auckland symposium
MicroStrategy’s global symposium series came to Auckland last month. Since July 2015, 61 MicroStrategy Symposia have been held around the world, attended by more than 11,500 delegates.
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November 1, 2016
The future is omni-channel
New Zealanders are more connected than ever before – 94% check the internet daily and a third of kiwis are constantly connected, according to the latest Internet NZ study. Customers have high expectations of their interactions with businesses – the digital experience needs to be secure, convenient, consistent and engaging. At the same time, new business models are disrupting traditional enterprise businesses.