Telerik AD (''Телерик АД'') is a Bulgarian company offering software tools for web, mobile, desktop application development, tools and subscription services for

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application development. Founded in 2002 as a company focused on .NET development tools, Telerik now also sells a platform for web, hybrid and native app development. On October 22, 2014

Progress Software Progress Software Corporation (Progress) is an American public company that offers software for creating and deploying business applications. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with offices in 16 countries, the company posted revenues ...

announced its acquisition of Telerik. The acquisition was finalized on December 1, 2014.

Overview

Telerik was founded in 2002 by four graduates of

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and

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. Initially focused on providing outsourced software development for foreign and Bulgarian companies, the company shifted its direction to the creation of application development tools. Its first product,

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editor (

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), was a web page editor designed to support the then recently launched Microsoft technology,

ASP.NET ASP.NET is an open-source, server-side web-application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, applications and services. The name s ...

. The company then expanded its offerings to include

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(UI) navigation controls, and the Telerik Sitefinity

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a few years later. Based upon developer interaction, Telerik developed tools targeted to support other .NET technologies, such as ASP.NET

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ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC is a web application framework developed by Microsoft that implements the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. It is no longer in active development. It is open-source software, apart from the ASP.NET Web Forms component, which i ...

, WPF,

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and

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. Telerik introduced support for

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and

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in 2011 with it
Kendo UI
product, coinciding with expected industry growth in mobile adoption.

Growth

Company growth came by way of hiring in Bulgaria, as well as expansion and acquisition abroad: * 2008 Germany: Acquired Vanatec GmbH, an enterprise-grade

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provider * 2010 USA: Merged with ArtOfTest, adding the

Test Studio Progress Telerik Test Studio is a Windows-based software test automation tool for web and desktop that supports functional testing, software performance testing, load testing and RESTful API testing developed by Telerik. The tool ships with a p ...

product * 2010 Canada: Acquired TeamPulse, via a partnership deal with

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* 2011 UK and Australia: Expansion * 2012 USA: Acquired Fiddler, a web debugging proxy * 2013 Denmark: Acquired EQATEC Analytics, a software analytics suite As of 2013, Telerik has 800 employees in 11 offices, led by co-CEOs Vasil Terziev and Svetozar Georgiev, and Chief Product Officer Aaron Mahimainathan. On October 22, 2014

announced its acquisition of Telerik, for $262.5 million.

Products and technologies

Telerik is known for its .NET user interface controls, but through acquisition and invention, expanded to support additional areas of the

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Controls Suite

* DevCraft: A collection of UI controls and widgets with versions for use with applications developed on the .NET platform (ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and WPF), HTML5 (Kendo UI) or through Xamarin for mobile devices.

Cloud development

* Telerik Platform: An integrated group of

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products that together provide the ability to plan, develop, deploy and measure cross-platform and mobile applications via the cloud. On 10 May 2018, Telerik Platform will be retired.

Application lifecycle management

* TeamPulse: An agile development project management tool *

: A tool that helps software developers implement testing protocols.

Content management

* Sitefinity: A web content management system (CMS), used to create and manage websites accessed via desktop or mobile devices.

Open-Source software products

For most of its products, Telerik takes a proprietary approach to its development process. However, it also has several products that are free and

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

NativeScript NativeScript is an open-source framework to develop mobile apps on the Apple iOS and Android platforms. It was originally conceived and developed by Progress. At the end of 2019 responsibility for the NativeScript project was taken over by long- ...

, Kendo UI Core, Data Access, Just Decompile and the “Sitefinity Project Feather” Initiative.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.telerik.com
Sitefinity
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