This week's MVP is Dick Wenning author of http://axstart.spaces.live.com and currently helping to build the growing reputation of Crimsonwing Promentem in the Netherlands.
What was your first job in Dynamics?
I started working with Dynamics AX in 2000 at Navision in the Netherlands.
At that time Axapta 2.5 was on the market. I was responsible for:
- Development and installation trainings for the Dutch Axapta Partners.
- Technical support for the Dutch Axapta Partners.
- Development for the financial localization of the Netherlands, UK, Denmark and France.
- Did a lot of beta testing in Axapta 3.0
Only the financial development in Axapta was left after Navision became
part of Microsoft. This was a little bit boring so I left Microsoft.
Who has been your biggest influence/s in Microsoft Dynamics?
- Development: Per Muller (Navision Corporate)
- Installation: Michael Holm (Navision Corporate)
- Functional : Peter Meulman & Jeroen Cool (Navision Netherlands)
What is your biggest achievement/s in Microsoft Dynamics?
- Getting the Pizza sessions alive in the Netherlands (Dynamics AX technical community)
- My MVP.
What is the best thing Microsoft has brought to the community?
- Support the Pizza sessions with Pizza and a location!
Why should an end user purchase Microsoft Dynamics?
- Is there other solution that will do the job for the same money?
What are the biggest challenges facing Microsoft Dynamics?
- Getting Dynamics AX into the cloud but also getting the Dynamics AX
technical people to do the job. (Re-educate x++ developers to c# developers)
What would you want to see from Microsoft Dynamics in the future?
- A better Cloud experience, perhaps an AX client that is based on
Silverlight (no more client installations)
Currently I'm working at Crimsonwing Promentem in the Netherlands:
- Partner readiness program Dynamics AX
- Building new Dynamics AX training materials for getting Dynamics AX
technical into the cloud
- Installation audits at customer site when stability and scalability is
not as expected.
- Training existing Dynamics AX Partners
And finally in the evening:
- Keeping the Dynamics AXtechnical community alive.
- Writing articles for my blog http://axstart.spaces.live.com
- Answering questions in the newsgroups. (Not often because all answers
are already on the internet, but you have to know the correct key words to
find them)
