The story of how the brothers Erik and Preben Damgaard started their small software company in the basement under their parents’ house and in 18 years created a company for which Microsoft [...]

When you read the book 5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley, you may notice that most of the actors did not find their way to either Damgaard Data or Navision Software by applying for a vacant job [...]

The plot in my forthcoming book “5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley” plays out over the years 1984 to 2002. The sale to Microsoft, which was completed about 16 years ago, was the end of [...]

The short answer is that you can not. Nobody in this world has managed to find a bulletproof method to determine if a business idea is good or bad. In the bright light of hindsight, we are all [...]

May I introduce Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov with whom I will work to translate the English version of my recent book Fra Damgaard til Microsoft (5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley). Sinéad is an [...]

When reading my new book “5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley” (available in English in June 2018), you will discover that both Damgaard Data and Navision Software (which was known as PC [...]

In July 2002 Microsoft made its largest acquisition at that time. They acquired the Danish ERP-software company Navision for USD $1.45 Billion. How did Navision – over the course of just 18 [...]

Erik Damgaard’s new software-as-a-service ERP system in the cloud Uniconta was off to an excellent start when they launched in May 2016, and the company behind the software – New [...]

It is an unusually warm day in the month of May 2016 on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Around 100 people are gathered in a refurbished factory cafeteria to hear Erik Damgaard present his [...]

Does the name “Erik Damgaard” ring a bell? If you are in the ERP business then I am sure it will. Erik Damgaard was the architect behind Axapta, which today is better known as [...]