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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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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!
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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.