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March 1, 2016
Theta featured in Business Plus magazine
Theta's CEO, Rob Lee, was recently interviewed by the Employers and Manufacturers Association (EMA) for their members' magazine, Business Plus.
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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 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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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 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 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.