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  • Who is the is the winner of the Dynamics Community Competition 2009?

    For the second time we are now able to announce who the winner of the "Dynamics Community Competion 2009" is. The purpose of this competition was to get more active members of the community, especially the Dynamics User Group. And as the base rule of the competition that neither David Singleton (co-admin) or I could win the competion, that means that the winner is Dave Trenor (aka DaveT).Congratulations to Dave! You're doing a great job! In the period Dave has not been the member with...

  • Microsoft is Killing Navision (part 2)

    In my blog last week I documented the fact that Microsoft is Killing Navision. That has led to a lot of comments, both here and in many other blogs and on LinkedIn. But I think that many people didn't read all of my blog post, as many thought that I said that they where killing Navision because it was a bad product, or that they where planning to dump it any day soon. But do not doubt. NAV or Navision is a great product! And the guys and girls working with the product are all doing a great job...

  • Microsoft is killing Navision

    If you like me thought that a career working with Navision, or Dynamics NAV as Microsoft likes to call our system, would be a career for life then I think you need to start and rethink that option. Microsoft is slowly but surely killing Navision without replacing it with Dynamics NAV! Take a look at the below statistics taken from Google Trends shows it very clearly. The statistics from Google Trends are made based on how many times users are searching for a specific word or search terms. Microsoft...

  • The 100 most influential Microsoft Dynamics people?

    You know these list from many other areas, the top 100 most influential industy leaders in New Jersey, the top 100 most beautiful couples in Hollywood and so on. But now there is one list that is more interesting for the readers here on DynamicsUser.net - " Microsoft Dynamics Top 100 Influential People 2009 " is online. I found out about this after reading Brandon George's AX Blog today, and especially it surprised me see my own name listed as number 10. Yes you heard right the top...
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  • A sexy company name?

    As I announced in my previous blog post , then I've decided to start a new company after I have left ISS. And if you visited the website then you'll also know that I decided to call the company Dynamics Experts, as the plan was to setup company uniting some of the best and britest experts in the Microsoft Dynamics world. I thought that the name was great. And so did some of the people I've consulted regarding the setup. I actually still thinks that the name is great. But one thing that...

  • So what to do now?

    As I wrote before then I was fired from my job at ISS. And that I was to find out what then to do with my life. Two weeks ago I cam back from two weeks vacation in Thailand. It's was a great vacation. I love Thailand and for me there's really no better way to relax and think than a beach in Thailand. So I've really had a lot of times to think. And of course nothing happens without reasons. That's the law of karma. And it really allows me to regain the feeling of control of my own...

  • What is the plan with Microsoft Dynamics NAV until 2017?

    Are you planning to invest in Microsoft Dynamics NAV or did you already invest in Navision? Do you want to know what Microsoft is planning do with Dynamics NAV until 2017? As Waldo wrote in his recent blog post then Microsoft has just released their new statement of directions for Dynamics NAV. The statement of directions is document where Microsoft describes their plans with Navision until 2017. I will here try to highlight what I think are the most important changes to see after NAV 2009. Microsoft...

  • Congratulations to MiBuSo with the 10 years

    Last week I had a very nice trip together with my wife driving our car the 10 hours it takes to go to Belgium. Not my first time in Belgium, but the first time where Belgium was the target and not just a stop on the way to France. And the reason was the Mibuso Conference. Luc (the owner of Mibuso) had arranged this conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mibuso. And of course I had to participate. Many of the participants I talked to was very surprised that I was participating. They were...

  • Going Down New Roads

    Last week was my last day working for ISS. That was the first time in my life that I have been fired. Well except for one time in 1988, when I had a job as a exhibition booth builder before I started college to become a programmer. So at first it really a big chock. Somehow I not seen it coming. And that despite many signs that I can see now after it happend. But now after a week I'm almost thankful. My last 6 month, yes actually the last year at ISS have not been fun at all. So now I can look...
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  • Follow me on Twitter

    In 2008 everything was about Facebook. Here in 2009 it's still about Facebook, but more and more are joining Twitter. But what is Twitter? Twitter is not new, but has been around for quite a few years. Basically Twitter is a very simple program that "only" has a status message as it's basic. The "thing" is that you can follow your frinds, but also make it update your status on Facebook also. You can follow me at: http://twitter.com/epernst
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  • Should we only focus on Dynamics NAV?

    As you all (hopefully) knows, then we are currently running the "Dynamics User Group Member Survey 2009". This is the first time we are doing this on http://dynamicsuser.net and we do it to try to get feed back from other users than the ones who posts in the normal forums. The way DUG has evolved since 1995 has always been based upon user input. When I started it was my wish to run this site and user group as a "real" democratic organization. In 1998-99 (or there around) we tried...

  • Microsoft PartnerSource NAV Favorites

    Partnersource is Microsoft's closed site for their partners to gain access to everything from sales and marketing information, whitepapers, new versions and updates etc. But also their knowledgebase including a lot a listing of registered errors and issues (and sometimes including references to fixes and work arounds). If you're a customer, then you might know Customersource. Partnersource is very similar designed. Compared to the rest of Microsoft's website, then Partnersource is really...

  • So how do you see the Dynamics future comparing to Oracle and SAP?

    A friend on Facebook asked this question yesterday. My initial answer was that I don't think that we'll see any big changes in the market with the products we have now. I think that both Dynamics NAV 2009 and Dynamics AX 2009 a really great products. Great usability and functionality. Microsoft's semi-enterprise product Microsoft Dynamics AX is a great product. But compared to the SAP and Oracle Financials to really make a difference. In many ways it's "just another product"...

  • Changes to the DUG front page

    A lot has changed here on the Dynamics User Group since our upgrade last month. Not really so much in the "core" applications, such as the forums and the blogs. But the front page has been changing several times, first from something which is more or less standard and not really very specific for our users, into what we have now, which I think is very much what the users are requesting. A frontpage that put focus on our "core" applications: the forums and the blogs and less focus...
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  • The State of the Community

    Dear readers, dear community members, As times goes by, then we also have to realize that we are not in "the good old days" anymore. This year is DUG (before that NOLUG's) 14th Birthday! And things have changed. Since our start the community has changed a lot. When I started this website in 1995, we basically had a monopoly on the internet, as the only Navision Community. That's not the way it is today. The Competition In the days of Navision Software, end-users were not allowed...
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