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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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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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November 20, 2015
Change management for CRM implementations
As CRM 2016 nears there is a huge amount of technical and application related tweets, blogs and other postings filling the airwaves, the list of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics 2016 is staggering. back on the front line some companies may be struggling with the reality that the introduction of any new system, technology or process involves change. It is evident that some of the new CRM functionality, if embraced, will require a level of change. To illustrate the impact of change I will just highlight one feature of the current Microsoft Dynamics CRM offering and outline what change means in this single context.
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November 19, 2015
New Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice rounds out offering
Theta has established a new Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice. This complements our other consulting areas, and is part of a wider suite of services to help customers make the most of new digital opportunities.
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November 18, 2015
MicroStrategy version 10 enables big data engine support
MicroStrategy has recently released version 10, their most advanced self-service BI and analytics platform yet.
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November 17, 2015
Saving filters using views
In this third short tutorial in the series (did you try the others yet?), Hector Parada shows you how to save filtered lists using views. So grab a coffee and learn a new NAV trick…
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November 12, 2015
Customer service in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016
The release of CRM 2016 is imminent and there are lots of blogs, tweets and even a few really cool videos doing the rounds, however I would like to put into context one element of what all of these channels are telling us.
November 3, 2015
Microsoft Dynamics NAV: quick entry
In this second short tutorial in the series (did you try the first yet?), Hector Parada shows you how to navigate more quickly and flexibly around Microsoft Dynamics NAV. So grab a coffee and learn a new NAV trick…