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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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October 27, 2016
Microsoft Ignite NZ 2016: Keynote highlights
It's a big week in tech here in Auckland, as New Zealand's largest tech conference, Ignite, comes to town. The opening keynote is always a whizz-bang highlight, showcasing what's next in tech. We asked some Theta's many Ignite attendees to share the things they were excited about.
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October 25, 2016
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 is here!
The new release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV is here, on time according to Microsoft’s annual release cycle. There were some speculations during the year about the name of this release as other terms are floating around like “Project Madeira” and “Dynamics 365”. Let’s clarify these terms and products first before we look deeper into the new features of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017.
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October 14, 2016
New automated external defibrillator (AED)
Theta now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in our Auckland office. 15 staff as well as two from a neighbouring firm have attended a CPR/AED training session, and we’ve informed our close neighbours that we have an AED available for use if required.
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October 13, 2016
Happy first birthday CRM!
Last week our Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice turned one. It's been an exciting and busy year!
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September 27, 2016
Workflows in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has been released with many new features which will cater for small to mid-sized businesses around the globe. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Workflows is one of the most exciting and anticipated functionalities introduced in the latest release.
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September 22, 2016
What is R?
Many business intelligence and big data tools provide integration with R, a tool first developed here in NZ 20 years ago. But what is R, how does it relate to data science and how can we best use it?
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September 21, 2016
Creating smart reports and applications with machine learning and R
The main users of machine learning and statistics modelling are data scientists. But other users, such as software developers, BI developers, and even business users through self-service BI, can benefit from machine learning and R in their projects. By connecting these tools, they can bring statistics, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analysis into applications and ultimately develop smarter products and services. In this post, I will show how Microsoft makes it easy for different users to connect and use machine learning and statistics in their reports and applications.
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August 25, 2016
Inline hockey and design: a winning combo
Continuing our series of Theta staffers doing interesting things outside of work, this month we meet Joe Dowman, Theta’s Wellington-based graphic designer. When not working his design magic, Joe plays and coaches inline hockey, which last month took him to Hawaii as a NZ coach at the AAU Inline Hockey Junior Olympics.
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August 18, 2016
2015-16 Annual Report published
We have just published our latest annual report - an overview of our activity, performance and highlights for the financial year ending 31 March 2016.
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August 18, 2016
What is Azure Machine Learning, why should we use it and how is it helpful?
Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) is a fully managed cloud service that enables us to easily build, deploy, and share descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions. In this post I’ll give an overview of these three main types of analysis.