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October 24, 2025
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.

November 11, 2025
Watch Now — The Innovation Circuit EP 8: Swipe Right, Tech Trends leaders are backing for 2026 — Part 2
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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February 26, 2016
Logic Apps Preview Refresh: Designer Improvements
Microsoft just released a refresh of the Azure Logic Apps Preview. Logic Apps allow API centric workflows to be automated and executed within the Azure Platform. The technology should be in general availability in Q2 2016, according to the Microsoft Integration Roadmap published last year. Here is an overview of the designer changes released with the refresh earlier this week.
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February 25, 2016
Cure Kids team is ready to race
As the sun crept up with shards of brilliant daylight illuminating the mist that lay thick in the valleys of the Hunua ranges last Saturday, Theta's intrepid Cure Kids racers started their last big training exercise for this year’s Cure Kids Great Adventure Race, to be held on 19 March.
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February 24, 2016
Discover Cortana Analytics Suite
We're hosting a business-focused event with Microsoft in Auckland next month. Come along to hear about how Cortana Analytics can help you transform your data into intelligent action through intuitive interactions and natural language questions.
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February 2, 2016
A taste of adventure, for Cure Kids
A new year means the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race is just around the corner. What have we been up to behind the scenes to help get ready for the race?
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December 23, 2015
Digital transformation in the NZ context
Theta recently hosted a second annual executive lunch event in association with IDC, this year focused on digital transformation in the NZ context. At three events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, IDC’s Adam Dodds spoke about how digital transformation is affecting all businesses and driving disruption. In this article we share some of the highlights from his presentation.
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December 16, 2015
Living with Postgres (PostgreSQL)
PostgreSQL is an open source relational database. It has its origins in the mid 1980s when it was developed by some of the team who had worked on the Ingres database software. It is now one of the more widely used open source SQL databases.
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December 6, 2015
Strawberries and Pie Me! - new Cure Kids fundraisers
Each year of our participation in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race brings new and innovative ways to raise funds - all to help researchers continue to find cures and better treatments for Kiwi kids living with potentially life-threatening conditions. We've already raised more than $1,500 in support of our 2016 campaign - here's an update from our latest fundraising activities.
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December 4, 2015
Popping the Bubble – Collaborative CRM
In 2000 I attended a presentation by Wolfgang Grulke, who at that time was billing himself as a “futurist”. He had just published a book called 10 Lessons from the Future. He commanded a presence on the stage, was an inspirational speaker and it was riveting stuff, however when he said “In the very near future you will be able to do banking and buy things using your phone” there were audible sighs from some of my banking colleagues who all thought he was barking mad.
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November 26, 2015
CRM used as a data cleaning tool
There is often a lot of talk about poor data within CRM systems and sadly this tends to be the case in many instances. However it is possible to make use of the system itself as a mechanism to assist in data cleansing. It might sound anachronistic that bad data sitting in a system can actually use that system to assist in cleansing the data, but it can be done. It is not quite a self-cleaning oven, though. Not yet...
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November 25, 2015
Cure Kids fundraising kicks off for 2016 race
We're delighted to again have a Theta team competing in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race, to be held on 19 March 2016 in Auckland. We've participated every year since 2012, and have raised more than $55,000 over the past five years for Cure Kids.


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