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January 12, 2015
Closing the loop with business intelligence
What is business intelligence? You’ll find as many definitions as you will find practitioners of this art that somehow manages to transform data into knowledge, and useful knowledge at that.
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December 23, 2014
Closing the C-Suite Gap
This year’s IDC C-suite barometer surveyed New Zealand executives, and highlighted low levels of alignment in the priorities of executives in relation to information and communication technology (ICT). We’ve observed this too, and thought it would be of interest to our customers to hear the full findings from IDC and their suggestions for closing this “C-suite gap”.
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December 22, 2014
Rob Hawthorne recognised as Microsoft MVP
Rob Hawthorne, our Head of Microsoft Solutions and Architecture, was recently recognised as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his SQL Server expertise.
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December 9, 2014
Theta acquires Indigo, cementing position as top NZ BI consultancy
Last month Theta completed the acquisition of Auckland-based business intelligence firm Indigo. Our business intelligence team grows to more than 50 specialist consultants in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as a result.
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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?