Gartner predicts it: in 2012, BOYD is the next big thing. The nice thing about BYOD is that is much less boring than, for example, Cloud Computing, which is also a Gartner prediction for 2012 (those guys are really smart: I always wonder how are they get so good at predicting new trends I hadn’t seen coming at all).

Anyway, BYOD is nice. BYOD is the path to freedom for any employee in 2012:

• Bring your own dog (if you feel lonely)
• Bring your own drugs (if you’re addicted)
• Bring you own drink (if your hands feel shaky by 2 PM)
• Bring your own desk (if you work at Microsoft)
• Bring your own detective (if you work  … hm)

I’m not sure if I forgot one.

Within the Belgian Dynamics Community (BDC) organization we are constantly looking to improve our value towards our 1200+ members and our sponsors.

With this post I am very happy to announce that we have a new back office framework which enables us to communicate with our members thru the renewed BDC newsletter

With this newsletter vehicle we want to share information about the Microsoft Dynamics products and we will talk about experiences, tips & tricks and sharing best practices.

But we also decided to integrating some new topics in the newsletter.

One of them will be BDC book in the spotlight In this topic we will introduce a newly released book on the Microsoft Dynamics business and its underlying technology.

Thanks to the commitment and support of Packt Publishing you will have the opportunity to get 1 copy of this book for free Only requirement for to get this book
is for you to be interactive with us.

And for those who could not win the book, Packt publishing offering our BDC members a 20% discount if you are interested in buying this book. To receive the discount
you need to send a simple email to info@Dynamicscom.be
and we will send you the discount code.

We are very proud about the first edition of the BDC book in the spotlight because it is created by one of our members, Steven Renders, an experienced Trainer on Microsoft
Dynamics NAV.

He wrote a book about Professional reporting in NAV2009

The requirement for you to win this book :
The third message which appears in our mailbox which proofs he or she evangelizes the December 8th session thru his social network (facebook or linkedin) will receive a copy!

We might believe software is cold and unemotional (developed by people with no feelings who have no personal life). I think this statement is wrong.

Apart from negative feelings (all to often) associated with using an ERP or CRM solution, I think there can and must be some kind of beauty in a software product. Both developers and users should be open to that beauty.

Most software products or add-ons are the result several man-years of development efforts. Maybe it takes as much human intelligence and sweat to build a software solution than a car. So why not put some beauty in something that takes so much of our time?

The users of the software, from their side, also have the right to enjoy the beauty of their software. Many spend several hours a day behind their Microsoft Dynamics screen – more than behind the wheel of their BMW or hot Alfa.

So, please God, open our eyes to the beauty of the delicate semi-transparent greyshade in a screen header. Of the way a new window pops up. Of how the fields in a customer card are nicely balanced. Of the well chosen font in a title header.

In this world where everything is measured against ‘productivity’, beauty is what will make the difference.

PS: beauty and ugliness are also in the hardware. Especially if you look at the back side (thanks for the angry feedback. this is a blog after all):