Dynamics Profile: New Microsoft MVP champions Dynamics NAV cloud, multi-tenant best practices

Soren Skov Klemmensen, who was named a Microsoft MVP in October 2014, has been part of the Dynamics NAV world since 1997. He has developed a passion for the product and he foresees a future for NAV that is cloud-based, multi-tenant, and that is fueled by high quality products created using development best practices.

Klemmensen is currently one of two NAV MVPs in Canada, but he first learned about Dynamics NAV, or Navision as it was called then, while he was playing tennis in Denmark.

"I was writing my thesis at the university and I was out playing tennis with one of my friends," he said. "I ran into this guy and I started talking to him. He told me he had just started up a little company and he needed a student to help them. He asked me if I was interested. I asked what he did. He said they programmed. I said, ‘Sure, I can do that.' But I didn't know a thing about it."

That company was Elbek & Vejrup A/S and Klemmensen worked there from March 1997 to January 2002, learning, developing, consulting and implementing customers on Navision.

"When I started there were two owners and one employee. I was the second employee," Klemmensen said. "By the time I left there were over 30 employees."

Klemmensen next made his way to Belgium-by way of South Africa.

"I met my wife on vacation in South Africa. She was from Belgium," he said. "I started flying from Denmark to Belgium to visit her and she came to ...