August 2010
Provoke takes out two awards!
We were delighted to be announced as finalists in two categories at the Microsoft New Zealand 2010 Partner Awards this month. The awards are an exclusive event and present an opportunity for all of the New Zealand Gold, Certified, and Small Business partners, to get together and celebrate delivery of innovative customer solutions. It is also a chance for us to showcase some of our work, and to talk about the achievements of the year with our peers.....
July 2010
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010
Our CEO, Mason Pratt, and our CTO, Brendon Ford, have just returned from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference that was held in Washington DC this year. The conference is a chance to see first-hand the latest developments from Microsoft and a chance to have one-on-one time with senior Microsoft executives. In previous years we've met with the product leads of SharePoint, the secretive security people behind Rights Management Service, and the drivers of Search across the enterprise, but this year we reached to the top with a roundtable with Microsoft Global CEO Steve Ballmer....
July 2010
Man Hug
Provoke again made an edition of Reseller News, and the front page no less! This time it was for our leading stance on deploying Office 2010 across our entire company. We'd been trialling the entire Office 2010 suite for some time as part of the pre-release community, and our staff were quick to jump once the official release was available....
June 2010
In the Cloud
Since the launch of our "In the Cloud" service, we have had an amazing response from New Zealand companies looking to reduce infrastructure costs and to take advantage of the various hosted offerings from Microsoft Online Services. We have now completed a number of e-mail migration projects from both Microsoft Exchange and Google, to the Microsoft Hosted Exchange service, and all without any disruption to those clients or their user base.....
February 2010
Good Governance Part II - Reporting
Following-up from my previous article, in which I covered off the essential need to identify site and content owners across a deployment, it seems that many companies don't really know what they don't know! By this I mean that many governance groups do not know what information is of value, and site statistics can be misleading, or simply irrelevant....
February 2010
Using Nintex Workflow to drive business gains
In the last 2 years we have seen many of our clients change their Information Technology investment process dramatically. Now, more than ever, they have been cutting spending, reducing costs, improving efficiency, and scrutinising the return on any IT investment....
August 2009
The Changing face of SharePoint
The last twelve to eighteen months has seen an interesting shift in the technology landscape from Provoke's point of view here in New Zealand. The change of government and economic climate have without doubt impacted on the projects we are engaged on....
August 2009
The Rights Management Debate
A great deal has been written about IT security over the last few years, and such stories usually appear in the context of fear of data loss, and intellectual property theft. One such story appeared in the Dominion Post this week, and highlighted the use of....
July 2009
Solutions not Products - A report from WPC09
Provoke are a Microsoft Gold Partner, but what does that mean? Well, simply put, it means that we leverage Microsoft technologies when we are designing and developing solutions for our clients....
May 2009
Good Governance in the Online World
I have lost count of how many times I've used the "G" word in workshops with clients who are either thinking about a new public website, a new intranet, or who are upgrading their current sites. My first question at such workshops is always "Who is in charge?"....
April 2009
Provoke invigorates aging ERP system with Domain Driven Design and Test-driven Development
Maintainability in large software projects is always a challenge. Business systems are an investment, designed to be flexible to the rapidly-changing needs of their users, but all too often they end up brittle and costly to maintain by anyone other than original developers....
September 2008
Marram Website Goes Live
Marram's new e-business and database system went live on 3 September, transforming the way they conduct their business. The growing needs of the Marram community led them to review their existing web strategy last year and engage Provoke to build a new e-business website...
July 2008
Provoke reap rewards of Unified Comms
In the seven years since start-up, Microsoft Gold Partner Provoke has grown from a group of five like-minded Wellington friends into one of New Zealand's IT success stories...
January 2008
Provoke-designed Intranet Secures Top 10 Listing
The intranet site Provoke Solutions developed for the Ministry of Transport has been named one of the 10 best intranets in the world. The site was one of the 10 winners in global research firm Nielsen Norman Group’s 2008 Intranet Design Awards...
January 2008
World-Beating Intranet is Kiwi-Made
Provoke Solutions has been acknowledged for their work on the Ministry of Transport intranet which has been named as one of the top ten intranets in the world. The Nielsen Norman Group, based in California, are recognised as world-leaders on corporate culture and the human-centered product development process...
November 2007
Provoke MD Wins Young Exec Award
Provoke's Managing Director, Mason Pratt, walked away with the NZIM/Eagle Technology Young Executive of the Year title at the Deloitte Top 200 Awards dinner last week. Now in its 18th year, the Deloitte/Management magazine...
October 2007
Provoke Shortlisted for TUANZ Award
Provoke Solutions has been named as double-finalist in the 2007 TUANZ Business Internet Awards. These awards recognise and encourage excellence in New Zealand's interactive industry. They are designed to highlight NZ website managers, developers and designers who are reaching international acclaim and offer a vehicle for them to market their achievements...
October 2007
Intranet Project Wins Provoke a Microsoft Gong
Wellington-based Provoke Solutions won the Microsoft Partner Solution of the Year Award last month for one of the country’s first implementations of SharePoint 2007, at the Ministry of Transport...
September 2007
Provoke triumph in Microsoft Partner Awards
Provoke Solutions and Xero took top honours at Microsoft New Zealand’s inaugural partner awards last night. Wellington software house Provoke won the overall Partner Solution of the Year award, while online accounting software provider Xero, founded by technology entrepreneur Rod Drury last year, took home the Small Business Partner Solution of the Year award...
September 2007
Provoke take top Microsoft Partnership Honours
Microsoft New Zealand's first partnership get-together in this country - the two-day Connectionz conference - wound up last night with a black-tie awards ceremony celebrating the very best Microsoft partnerships at Auckland Museum...
September 2007
Provoke moves into the Auckland SharePoint market
Wellington-based software development company Provoke has opened a central Auckland office in response to pressure from its expanding Auckland customer-base and from Microsoft New Zealand...
August 2007
Provoke Chief Wins Award
Mason Pratt, chief executive of Wellington software developer Provoke Solutions, has won the central region award in the NZIM/Eagle Technology young executive of the year...
Fly Buys | Public Website »
To coincide with a major re-launch of the Fly Buys brand, Loyalty NZ engaged Provoke to design and build a new website as part of a broader rollout of Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 platform...
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