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Theta Adventure Racers raise hundreds for Cure Kids
From three, to six, to twelve hours of racing, laughing, and getting lost together, Theta’s adventure racers efforts have raised over $1,000 for Cure Kids, proving that teamwork, resilience, and a great cause make every challenge worth it.
October 9, 2025
Watch Now — The Innovation Circuit EP 7: Swipe Right, Tech Trends leaders are backing for 2026 — Part 1
In this two-part series, we’re diving into emerging tech trends and their potential impact as we look ahead to 2026. The topics we explore are based on insights from a series of executive events we recently hosted with our customers.
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August 8, 2025
Annual Report 2024-2025 Published
Read our latest annual report - an overview of our activity, performance and highlights for the financial year ending 31 March 2025.
July 29, 2025
Watch Now - The Innovation Circuit: The Breaker and the Builder - Million Dollar Bug Bounties with Ron Chan (Nova Security)
Ron Chan, a prolific bug bounty hunter, was featured in Forbes as one of the elite few to surpass $1 million in rewards from ethical hacking programs. Throughout his career, he's made high-impact submissions to platforms such as Uber, GitLab, Yahoo, Google, PayPal and Spotify. Fast forward to 2025, Ron uses his exceptional skill set to help New Zealand organisations identify and address security vulnerabilities - now serving as Principal Consultant at Nova Security.
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April 11, 2024
Upgrading from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud?
The triggers for moving to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud are commonly around similar themes: flexibility to scale up and down, cost control, better integration with other core systems and tighter security.
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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.
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August 17, 2016
1, 2, Free! DIY BI, ETL spring clean and integration accelerator
Want to DIY your BI? Spring clean your ETL? Or accelerate your integration? Choose one of Theta’s three-day readiness assessments to get you under way. Book now, pay for two days, and the third day is free.
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August 4, 2016
Logic Apps Reaches General Availability
Logic Apps reached General Availability on Azure on 27 July 2016. This represents a fantastic effort by the Logic Apps product team, with many much-needed improvements to the user interface, tooling, performance and connectivity. Here is a summary of the improvements, and some information about migrating from existing schemas.
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July 8, 2016
First class MicroStrategy user conference
New Zealand’s third MicroStrategy user conference was held in Auckland last month, hosted by Air New Zealand in their state of the art Customer Collaboration & Innovation Centre in Beaumont St. The facility boasts a full scale replica of the cabin of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Attendees enjoyed trying out the first class seats!
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June 30, 2016
SQL tip #6: Scripting multiple SQL objects
Sometimes we need to script multiple SQL objects, either for deployment, documentation or quick search, eg to find SSIS package name.
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June 28, 2016
Theta at the movies: Finding Dory
It was a delight host our tenth annual family movie event earlier this month. This year we held three special preview screenings of the long anticipated sequel to Finding Nemo, Finding Dory.
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June 28, 2016
Changes in Logic Apps: Schema Refresh 2
With general availability of Logic Apps fast approaching the product team has increased the pace of implementing new features. Another incremental update to the Logic Apps Designer brought welcome functionality changes and user interface improvements, thanks to a new version of the Logic Apps definition schema.