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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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November 26, 2014
Open Data Platform recognised at local government IT awards
The Open Data Platform, built by Theta for the Otago Regional Council (ORC) on Windows Azure, was a runner up in the Excellence in Innovation category at the ALGIM (Association for Local Government Information Management) IT Awards last night. These awards recognise and celebrate best practice within local government information technology and information management.
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November 21, 2014
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is “IN” and “ON”
I attended the Technical Symposium for Microsoft Dynamics NAV last week, which was held as part of the Microsoft Dynamics Partner Summit 2014 in Bali. It was great to meet the many NAV people from all over Asia, and even better to hear directly from the Microsoft product team, from Denmark.
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November 17, 2014
Microsoft Dynamics Asia Partner Summit: the future is cloud
Joerg Rau and David Moncrieff from Theta’s ERP practice attended the second annual Microsoft Dynamics Asia Partner Conference in Bali last week, along with over 600 other delegates from 27 countries. Here they share some of the event's key messages, and look out for a report from Joerg soon that takes a closer look at Microsoft Dynamics NAV - in 2015 and in the cloud.
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November 10, 2014
How to step inside BizTalk using the Visual Studio debugger
BizTalk is Microsoft’s flagship integration and B2B platform, and is used by many of our clients. Recently I encountered a problem where the ability to step into it with a debugger turned out to be a big help. Some creative thinking is needed to get inside a closed source .NET application, but as I’ll show in this post, a combination of tools - Visual Studio debugger plus the free dotPeek decompiler – did the trick. Even better, this technique is applicable to any situation where you need to debug a compiled application that you don’t have the source code for.
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October 28, 2014
How to train your inbox using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (part three)
In this three part-series, Theta Software’s product architect and lead consultant Jim Taylor takes a closer look at Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
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October 20, 2014
How to train your inbox using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (part two)
In this three part-series, Theta Software’s product architect and lead consultant Jim Taylor takes a closer look at Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. New here? read part one first: What is machine learning and how might it be useful?
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October 16, 2014
It's conference season
We've had a busy few months of trade shows and conferences, getting out and about, finding out more about the technology needs of different sectors, and giving away lots of Theta drink bottles! They're shiny, white, and very popular.
October 13, 2014
How to train your inbox using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (part one)
In this three part-series, Theta Software’s product architect and lead consultant Jim Taylor takes a closer look at Microsoft Azure Machine Learning.
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September 19, 2014
Olympic Medallist Barry Magee visits Theta
What better way to inspire staff to part with their lunch money than to invite an Olympic legend to visit the Theta office. It was a real honour for us to play host to Barry Magee and his numerous medals and trophies. He accepted our invitation and gave his time freely so that we could use the occasion to raise more funds for Cure Kids. His “Zero to Hero” talk was inspirational and much appreciated by the Theta crowd.
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July 29, 2014
The Theta tour of Auckland
A number of people who have recently joined us in our Auckland office are new not just to Theta but to New Zealand. To help make them feel welcome and show them some of our favourite spots in this lovely city we organised a sightseeing bus trip for a Sunday afternoon in June.