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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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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.
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June 21, 2016
ERP software for the food industry through new partnership with SI Foodware
Theta has recently become the SI Foodware partner for New Zealand. We can now offer our food industry customers business and financial software that’s specifically designed for them.
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June 16, 2016
Discover advanced analytics: event in Christchurch
We're hosting a business-focused event in Christchurch this month. Come along to hear about how advanced analytics can help you transform your data into intelligent action through intuitive interactions and natural language questions.
June 15, 2016
SQL tip #5: Be prepared for SQL 2016
Did you know that in SQL Server 2016 you can now specify the location of the tempdb files during setup?
June 8, 2016
SQL tip #4: using output clause to return changed items
Did you know that you can use the output clause to return updated or inserted rows without having to select them again?