Mark Brummel is a freelance all-round Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist focused on helping end users of the product.
His passion is evangelizing and documenting the "NAV way". This is a combination of architectural principles and design best practices formalized in a workshop called Master Class for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Application Architecture and Design Patterns. The methodology helps in creating solutions that are easy to upgrade, recognizable for users, and maintainable outside the ecosystem of their creators. All three elements apply to the original Navision product that shipped in 1995 and are extracted, updated, and documented in this methodology.
In 2015, his new book, Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns, will be published, which is a book about his methodology. He also organizes hands-on workshops together with a group of MVPs and MCTs all across the globe.
Before starting freelancing in 2006, he started in 1997 as an end user and worked 8 years for NAV partners after that. Designing and maintaining add-on systems was his specialization. Some of these add-on systems exceed the standard product when it comes to size and complexity. Coaching colleagues and troubleshooting complex problems are his passions and part of his day-to-day work.
Many end users of Microsoft Dynamics NAV struggle with questions about how to upgrade their two-tier solution to a three-tier solution. Mark can help you answer these questions and plot a roadmap to the future, retaining the investment in the solution.
When Microsoft introduced the three-tier architecture in 2009, it was meant to be a major shift for experienced NAV developers and consultants. Mark has trained most of them in the Netherlands and Belgium.
To be able to share knowledge in an efficient and global way, Mark wrote the book Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design and Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design, which is often referred to as the NAV Bible. Its content is applicable to newer and older versions of the product too.
In 2010, he started a think tank called Partner Ready Software together with four other Dynamics NAV experts. Partner Ready Software brings fresh ideas of designing applications in NAV and creates awareness about applying design patterns while creating repeatable solutions.
Mark is an associate in the Liberty Grove Software network, a member of the NAVUG advisory board, and a cofounder of the Dutch Dynamics Community.
A special project and performance tuning of the Dynamics NAV product on SQL Server. As a unique specialist, he has done groundbreaking research in improving the performance of Dynamics NAV on SQL Server.
On the site, http://nav-skills.com/, Mark maintains a blog. This blog contains a wide range of articles about both Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server products. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and publishes articles on Pulse for LinkedIn.
Since 2006, Mark has been rewarded by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution to online and offline communities. He has received the award 10 times.
Mark is a father of four, is married, and lives in a small town in the Netherlands.
Danilo Capuano is a senior software engineer with over 10 years of industry experience. He lives in Naples, Italy, where he earned a degree in computer science. He currently works as a consultant for Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics CRM at a Microsoft Gold Partner company, where he also completed the MCTS certification.
He is already a reviewer of several books on Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
You can contact him on his home page at http://www.capuanodanilo.com/
You can also contact him via Twitter at @capuanodanilo.
Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), MCAD, MCTS on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MCTS on Sharepoint, MCTS on SQL Server, and a long-time expert on other Microsoft-related technologies.
He has a master's degree in computer engineering from Politecnico of Turin.
He works as a senior project manager and solution developer for EID (http://www.eid.it/), a company of the Navlab group (http://www.navlab.it/), one of the biggest Microsoft Dynamics group in Italy (where he's also the Chief Technical Officer). His main activity is the architecture and development of enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Sharepoint, and Azure and .NET applications in general), and he's often focused on engineering distributed service-based applications.
He works as a full-time NAV consultant (15+ years of international NAV projects), and he is available for architecture solutions based on Microsoft's ERP and for NAV database tuning and optimization (performance and locking management). He's the author of several different Microsoft Certified NAV add-ons.
He has written many articles and blogs on different Microsoft-related topics, and he's frequently involved in consulting and teaching. He has worked with Packt Publishing in the past for many Microsoft Dynamics NAV-related books.
You can get more details and keep in touch with him by reaching http://www.demiliani.com/ or via Twitter (@demiliani).