Telerik AD () 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

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development tools, Telerik now also sells a platform for web, hybrid and native app development. On October 22, 2014

Progress Software Progress Software Corporation is an American public company that produces software for creating and deploying business applications. Founded in Burlington, Massachusetts with offices in 16 countries, the company posted revenues of $531.3 mill ...

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

Overview

Telerik was founded in 2002 by four graduates of American University in Bulgaria and Technical University of Sofia. 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, RAD editor (

rapid application development Rapid application development (RAD), also called rapid application building (RAB), is both a general term for adaptive software development approaches, and the name for James Martin's method of rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to ...

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

ASP.NET ASP.NET is a 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 stands for Ac ...

. 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 is ...

, 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 ORM provider * 2010 USA: Merged with ArtOfTest, adding the Test Studio product * 2010 Canada: Acquired TeamPulse, via a partnership deal with Imaginet * 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 had 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. On September 09, 2024 Progress Software announced its acquisition of

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for $875 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 * Test Studio: 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 and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

NativeScript NativeScript provides platform APIs directly to the JavaScript runtime (''with strong types'') for a rich TypeScript development experience. As an open-source framework to develop apps for iOS, visionOS and Android platforms combining a bes ...

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

References

External links

* {{Official website Progress Software Android (operating system) development software Bulgarian companies established in 2002 Defunct software companies of Bulgaria Mobile software programming tools Software companies based in Massachusetts