One MVP's "Thousand Year" Relationship with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft MVP Thomas Bonde Ejby has worked with Microsoft Dynamics AX since its birth in 1998, a journey he describes as feeling truly like a thousand years.

The real length of time is closer to 17 years, and Ejby was first awarded the MVP title last April. Early in his career Ejby worked with Microsoft Dynamics XAL, an integrated business solution that was designed specifically for small to medium-size companies and sold only in Europe.

"When Dynamics AX launched in 1998, I was part of the first wave of people training on the application," says Ejby, an enterprise solutions architect at AXVICE, a company he founded in 2014. "So I've been there since the beginning."

In those early years, Ejby worked as a developer/consultant implementing interfaces between Dynamics AX and other systems.

"I soon moved over to being more like an integrator," he says. "My first project was a heavy integration between two systems, a German Windows configuration system and XAL. I created a couple of modules that we took patent pending on, one called Galaxy, that could interface data in and out of XAL and later AX. That brought me to creating tools and toolsets to make your day-to-day work with AX easier."

Ejby has worked in a range of roles in the Microsoft ecosystem, including eleven years with Columbus and about a year at Microsoft as a Dynamics AX senior solution architect, where he interfaced with global ISV partners that were looking to create add-on solutions for Dynamics AX 2012.

But having to work with companies in various countries and ...