Integrated suite combining innovative best practices analytics with agile development team tools marks official commercial launch

Waltham, MA, July 27, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today announced the immediate commercial availability of TeamPulse. Resulting from collaborative efforts between Telerik and consulting firm, Imaginet Resources Corp., TeamPulse is an integrated suite of agile scheduling, planning, and tracking tools designed to enrich team dynamics, bridging the boundaries between different stakeholders by providing greater insight into project context.

Developed on the popular Silverlight 4 platform, TeamPulse introduces a number of new technology advancements such as its industry-first Best Practices Analyzer and the new Persona Management view. It also incorporates an array of innovative team-oriented tools addressing critical agile project management needs, including iteration planning and scheduling, team collaboration, requirements management, and real-time project tracking. The intuitive user interface (UI) maintains a natural action flow for development teams, optimizing the decision-making process, minimizing redundancy and reducing waste.

“Telerik and TeamPulse are at the forefront of technology innovation – our Best Practices Analyzer raises the bar for application quality, while the Persona Management view takes the art of human-centered application design and development to the next level,” said Joel Semeniuk, Executive VP, Telerik Team Productivity Tools Division. “TeamPulse unleashes the inherent power of agile software development teams by elevating the overall development process. It is a strong demonstration of our role as a change agent for the software development industry.”

The Best Practices Analyzer is a pioneering technology not found in other team productivity solutions on the market. Leveraging a unique framework developed by Telerik, the analytical tool automatically evaluates then reports on which project elements are divergent from best practices standards. The suite includes a set of pre-determined best practices, however, the Best Practices Analyzer is built to allow the addition of new best practices based on a team’s particular organizational or project requirements.

TeamPulse’s Persona Management view provides teams with a rich editor for identifying application requirements, such as needed features and functionality, as well as defining end-user characteristics. The innovative human-centric tool gives developers a clearer picture of how end users will interact with and use their application, thereby allowing them to better capture, understand, and leverage vital end-user requirements and expectations.

In addition to its Best Practices Analyzer and Persona Management view, the commercial launch of TeamPulse includes a range of other new features and enhanced functionality:

• Requirements management – facilitates the planning process by providing tools addressing critical elements like story management, estimation, and prioritization
• Planning and scheduling – allows project requirements to be divided and decomposed into separate tasks which can then be scheduled into iterations
• Project tracking and analytics – provides a transparent, real-time view of project health, including up-to-date information on individual and team progress, via integrated analytics and streamlined dashboards
• Traceability – enables accurate tracking of business value during the course of the development cycle

TeamPulse Standard Edition, which includes one user and an unlimited number of projects, is immediately commercially available at $249 USD per license. Also available is TeamPulse Community Edition, a free full-featured edition limited to five users and one project. For additional information about TeamPulse, please visit www.telerik.com/team-productivity-tools.aspx. To learn more about Telerik and get the latest breaking company news, please follow @Telerik on Twitter.

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Tens of thousands of organizations in over 90 countries rely on Telerik products. Telerik customers include many Fortune 2000 companies, as well as renowned educational, governmental and non-profit institutions.

A Busy Week, But a Good One

Mapping Quest Drives .NET ORMs

Telerik Pushes Design, Testing Tools

Latest release delivers Out-of-Browser support, introduces control virtualization handling 

Waltham, MA, July 14, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today unveiled its Q2 2010 product release, featuring a number of essential new additions to its WebUI Test Studio in the field of Silverlight test automation. The updated Telerik automated testing tools also introduce new functionality aimed at enhancing testers’ productivity such as image verification, quick task addition, and more. 

“Our determined focus on innovation and commitment to customers translates into timely delivery of leading-edge updates to our testing solutions,” said Christopher Eyhorn, Executive Vice President, Telerik Automated Testing Division. “Not only was WebUI Test Studio the first to offer support for Silverlight UI test automation, but with this release we continue to strengthen our position as the leading solution on the market for Silverlight testing.” 

Following the official premier of WebUI Test Studio in April, the axis of the second major release for this year is Silverlight test automation. The new version of WebUI Test Studio adds full support for Out-of-Browser testing of Silverlight applications. The Out-of-Browser experience empowers users to launch their web applications directly from their desktop/start menu no matter if their computer is connected to the web. 

Furthermore, WebUI Test Studio 2010.2 introduces a solution to Silverlight virtualized control testing. The advanced recording surface now extends its capabilities to allow users to detect Silverlight ChildWindows and Pop-ups, and connect to them. In addition, users can highlight elements within these Pop-ups, and build verifications against them. 

Beyond the compelling optimizations in the Silverlight UI testing field, WebUI Test Studio 2010.2 adds a number of features fostering user testing experience and efficiency. The new Image Verification is a powerful test recording feature which enables customers to build image verifications against specific elements in their HTML or Silverlight applications. WebUI Test Studio offers precise “pixel-by-pixel” testing which allows users to refine the image verification they want to build. 

In addition to the more precise verification options, WebUI Test Studio introduces export of the test’s Visual Storyboard in HTML format, which facilitates documenting of business requirements; continue recording from a specific step; add manual steps to your test, and more. 

 Product pricing and licensing 

• WebUI Test Studio QA Edition – $2,499 USD; includes one machine license and one year of updates and priority support. 
• WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition – $1,499 USD; includes one machine license one year of updates and priority support. 
• WebUI Test Studio Bundle – $2,999 USD; includes one machine license for both WebUI Test Studio QA Edition and WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition, one year of updates and priority support. 
• Telerik Ultimate Developer Collection – $1,999 USD; includes all Telerik UI suites (ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WPF, WinForms), developer productivity tools (Reporting, JustCode, JustMock, OpenAccess ORM), and WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition. 

For additional information, please visit Telerik Automated Testing Tools website. To learn more about Telerik automated testing tools and get the latest breaking product news, please follow @WebUITestStudio on Twitter. 

Latest release brings Mocking tool to market, introduces Silverlight RichTextBox, and delivers upgrades across full Telerik toolbox

WALTHAM, MA, JULY 14, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today unveiled details of its Q2 2010 milestone release. Fresh from its recent “Best of TechEd Award” win, the company launched its latest developer productivity product, and new tools and controls. The company also announced the immediate availability of an array of upgrades and enhancements for the full Telerik product line.

Among the new offerings and updates being announced are JustMock, a new Visual Studio productivity tool allowing quick and easy mocking of objects during testing, Silverlight Assembly Minifier, a tool for assembly size optimization, RichTextBox for Silverlight, Round Trip Mapping for the Visual Designer in Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM and new Silverlight test automation enhancements to the company’s innovative and easy-to-use WebUI Test Studio.

“We understand that to remain competitive in a crowded market, developers must have access to the latest innovations and technologies allowing them to deliver added value to their customers,” said Svetozar Georgiev, CEO, Telerik. “Our team is firmly dedicated to supporting our developer community by incorporating the newest, best technology advancements into Telerik’s product line-up and releasing regular upgrades in a timely fashion.”

The officially introduced RadRichTextBox for Silverlight allows developers to bring true Microsoft Word-like content editing experience to end-users. The new control offers rich text editing and formatting capabilities, import and export of HTML, DOCX, and XAML, as well as out-of-browser support and printing.

Another addition to the Silverlight suite is the Telerik Assembly Minifier, a web-based tool that decreases the size of RadControls for Silverlight assemblies and consecutively the overall Silverlight application file size. It allows developers to quickly create highly optimized custom assemblies that only contain the Telerik controls and resources needed for a specific application. Combined with the RadControls for Silverlight, the Assembly Minifier enables developers to achieve previously impossible levels of optimization and in turn deliver faster application loading experiences to users.

Q2 2010 also marks the debut of Round Trip Mapping capabilities in the Telerik OpenAccess ORM Visual Designer. Developers traditionally must decide between Schema-first and Model-first mapping when working with ORM tools, like Entity Framework (EF), a decision, which is then set for the project duration. With OpenAccess Round Trip Mapping and the Visual Designer, developers can employ either approach at any time, for example, reverse-mapping an existing schema then updating that schema by simply updating the mapped model classes. Used in conjunction with Visual Designer, all tasks can be achieved in a single, intuitive view directly in Visual Studio, making OpenAccess one of the most flexible and efficient ORMs available.

Telerik’s second major release this year also delivers a host of new upgrades for its robust WebUI Test Studio, which are designed to allow professional development and QA teams to adopt Silverlight without sacrifices to application quality. Having previously introduced Silverlight UI record and playback support, Telerik’s WebUI Test Studio now delivers full out-of-browser support for Silverlight application testing. The enhanced Silverlight test recording enables customers to run the same test in-browser and as a desktop one. Also new is ChildWindow and Pop-up support for Silverlight applications, as well as robust image verification functionality permitting verification via visual rendering rather than element properties and attributes.

Q2 2010 marks the commercial release of Telerik’s JustMock developer productivity tool. Introduced earlier in 2010, JustMock allows Visual Studio developers to swiftly and effortlessly create object mockings during unit testing, saving time and resources. By breaking dependencies in unit tests, developers can focus on testing single concerns, providing more complete unit test coverage and improving overall software testing quality. An intuitive, high-performance addition to Telerik’s integrated suite of developer tools, JustMock opens new avenues to increased productivity, backed by the company’s industry-leading customer service and support.

Other upgrades and enhancements announced include:

• Unit Test Runner for JustCode, allowing developers to quickly and efficiently run critical tests in Visual Studio
• 13 new controls for its XAML suites including TreeListView for both Silverlight and WPF, DataPager, DataFilter, and more
• The official launch of the Telerik Data Services Wizard, which facilitates automatic creation of C# or Visual Basic code and project files needed to use OpenAccess entities with Data Services for .NET 3.5 SP1 Version 1 and 2 (Astoria), WCF EndPoints Service, REST Collection WCF Services, and ATOM Publishing Protocol WCF Service
• New additions to the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC suite, including an ASP.NET MVC Editor, offering identical HTML output across all major browsers, Window and ComboBox Extensions
• Telerik Reporting support for interactive reports that allow end-users to drill down through reports and subreports, jump to other sections in a report, and access external URLs via hyperlinks
• New TagCloud for ASP.NET AJAX and seamless SharePoint 2010 integration 
• An expanded WinForms suite that integrates five new controls, as well as new GridView UI and data layers for enterprise data-intensive scenarios

Pricing of the Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET, including all RadControl suites, Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, Reporting, OpenAccess ORM, JustCode, JustMock, and WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition is $1,999 per developer seat. Each license comes with priority support, guaranteeing 24-hour response time, as well as full C# source code, redistribution rights, and free updates to the latest products for one year. For questions or additional pricing information, please visit the Telerik website at www.telerik.com or email sales@telerik.com.

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Tens of thousands of organizations in over 90 countries rely on Telerik products. Telerik customers include many Fortune 2000 companies, as well as renowned educational, governmental and non-profit institutions.

HiSoftware includes Telerik RadEditor with its Accessibility Foundation Module to enable accessible content authoring for SharePoint sites

Waltham, MA and Nashua, NH, USA – July 12, 2010 – HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com), a leading provider of Web content and social media compliance solutions, today announced a new partnership with Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET. The duo have partnered to include Telerik’s popular RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX as part of HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff® Accessibility Foundation Module™ (AFM) for SharePoint®, a solution which allows users to create an accessible platform/framework for a SharePoint 2010 or 2007 portal, or intranet site. RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX, a cross-browser, rich-text editor, will provide advanced editing functionality for AFM.

“HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff and its Accessibility Foundation Module for SharePoint are the leading compliance automation solutions in the SharePoint market. We believe the solution will only be made better with the introduction of RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX as part of the AFM module for SharePoint platform accessibility,” said Svetozar Georgiev, CEO, Telerik. “We are pleased to have this opportunity to team up with an innovative market leader like HiSoftware and look forward to a long and productive partnership.”

Many organizations – government entities, education, and corporate – using SharePoint require that the software products in use are accessible. AFM is offered as part of the HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff for SharePoint solution to provide a more complete and easy-to-deploy method of addressing SharePoint framework accessibility. The incorporation of Telerik ASP.NET AJAX RadEditor, a high-productivity Web editor, as part of AFM, opens up two new avenues of opportunity for website content contributors: faster and easier accessible HTML content authoring, and improved interaction for disabled users. RadEditor’s fully accessible content-managing UI permits disabled users to easily work, generate accessible XHTML output, and add content into a SharePoint site. The partners are also looking at ways to further integrate technologies to address other compliance areas within SharePoint.

Kurt Mueffelmann, president and CEO, HiSoftware, stated, “We have many large customers with disabled employees who need to contribute content via SharePoint sites. Including the Telerik RadEditor with Compliance Sheriff AFM for SharePoint will enable content authoring for all with a fully accessible text editor.”

Along with the inclusion of the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Editor with the HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff AFM for SharePoint, HiSoftware and Telerik are committed to working together on accessibility solutions for technologies such as Silverlight® and AJAX, as well as standards such as the W3C’s ATAG 2.0 (Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines) initiative.

About HiSoftware

Founded in 1998, HiSoftware (www.hisoftware.com) is a leading provider of Web content and social media compliance software that monitors risk management across disperse e-Content environments – keeping information safe, appropriate and within regulatory guidelines. The company’s solutions provide a Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) platform for automating effective business processes for confidentiality, privacy, brand quality, accessibility and inappropriate content for public websites and intranets. HiSoftware’s customers consist of many of the world’s largest public and private intranet and public facing sites including US and international government agencies and Global 2000 companies.

Innovative tools developer surpasses fellow nominees to secure coveted placement as national representative

SOFIA, BULGARIA; WALTHAM, MA, JULY 8, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today announced it has been named as a finalist in the prestigious 2010 European Business Awards. The rigorous annual awards competition sponsored by HSBC recognizes and promotes excellence, best practices, and innovation in the European business community. Overcoming a crowded field of contenders to secure its place as one of only 10 country representatives, Telerik now advances to the next round of the competition in the hopes of winning the coveted Ruban d’Honneur. Final category award winners will be unveiled in Paris, France, on November 16, 2010.

“We are deeply honored to have been selected as a finalist in the 2010 European Business Awards,” said Svetozar Georgiev, CEO, Telerik. “Telerik remains dedicated to advancing the art and science of software development and we are both pleased and grateful that these efforts to do so have been recognized by the judges.”

Currently in its fourth successful year, the European Business Awards identify and award Europe’s brightest businesses. As part of the competition, an esteemed panel of judges carefully and thoroughly evaluates each nominee’s ability to demonstrate the three core principles at the heart of the Awards program: innovation, business excellence, and sustainability. In the next phase of the competition, Telerik, representing Bulgaria, will contend against representatives from nine other European countries.

“Each year, we witness impressive entries from some outstanding companies who have some great stories to tell. This year is no different; the quality of applicants is rising as are the number of entrants, so these organizations who have achieved Country Representative status truly are the best of the best,” said Adrian Tripp, CEO, European Business Awards. “They will go on to fly the flag for their countries as they battle it out across Europe in the next round to win a Ruban d’Honneur.”

The European Business Awards is dedicated to raising the visibility and progress of companies who excel in delivering innovation in conjunction with successful commercial results, while maintaining the highest level of corporate responsibility and positively affecting the social environment they operate in. In 2009, the 99 Ruban d’Honneur recipients achieved a combined turnover greater than €570 billion and recorded an average annual profit growth of 56%.

For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com; for information about the 2010 European Business Awards, please visit www.businessawardseurope.com.

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS, Code Analysis, Mocking, Team Productivity and Automated Testing Tools. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Telerik products help thousands of companies to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

About the European Business Awards 2010
The European Business Awards recognises and rewards excellence, best practice and innovation in companies across the European Union. The competition is free to enter and open to organisations of all sizes and from any industry sector.

The European Business Awards programme serves three purposes for the European business community:
•   It provides examples for the business community to aspire to
•   It celebrates and endorses individual’s and organisation’s success
•   It provides case studies and content for learning from these exceptional organizations

An innovative, strong and thriving business community makes a successful and prosperous Europe.

About HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from around 8,500 offices in 86 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$2,422 billion at 30 June 2009, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.

Integrated technology suite plays critical role in delivery of award-winning Internet-based B-to-B and B-to-C application

WALTHAM, MA, JUNE 29, 2010 - Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for Microsoft’s .NET platform, today announced its RadControls, Telerik Reporting, and Sitefinity CMS content management system are powering MyOnlineToolbox™, an innovative platform developed by ServusXchange, LLC, for contractors in the home repair and remodeling industry. The award-winning Internet-based application connects contractors with customers, suppliers, and subcontractors quickly and easily through a collaborative application, while streamlining back-end paperwork and enabling better lead management.

“Our team’s vision was to find a way for contractors to faster and more easily engage with their customers, as well as employees, vendors, and subcontractors, while still efficiently and cost-effectively managing day-to-day back-end operations,” said Brian Javeline, President and CEO, ServusXchange. “MyOnlineToolbox needed to facilitate seamless B-to-C collaboration while delivering required B-to-B back-end operations functionality. Telerik provided us with a firm foundation for achieving both.”

ServusXchange selected Telerik’s RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Telerik Reporting for development of the back-end module for MyOnlineToolbox. The robust, integrated RadControls toolset provides key functionality for the application, including on-the-fly image modifications using the BinaryImage control, color-coded appointment scheduling with the ColorPicker control, validation of user input via the Input control, and module-specific toolbar customization using the Toolbar control. Telerik Reporting is used for generation of key reports and time-sensitive documents, including estimates, schedules, invoices and collections, as well as allowing for in-depth data analysis.

In addition to RadControls and Telerik Reporting, ServusXchange deployed Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS to create the intuitive, feature-rich website dedicated to MyOnlineToolbox. Sitefinity is an ASP.NET-based comprehensive development platform enabling rapid creation and deployment of richly interactive websites. The product’s exceptional architecture, which incorporates Master Pages, templates, standard and user controls, themes and CSS, also allows effortless integration of legacy applications and third-party widgets.

“MyOnlineToolbox is a unique fusion of both B-to-B and B-to-C environments, combining the best of today’s Internet-based social networking site with the power of advanced collaboration and document and contact management software applications,” said Vassil Terziev, CEO, Telerik. “We are pleased to have been able to assist the ServusXchange team in bringing this pioneering application to life.”

MyOnlineToolbox has established itself as a disruptive technology for the home repair and remodeling industry, with thousands of contractors successfully implementing the platform as part of their day-to-day operations. The rapid success of MyOnlineToolbox has also captured the attention of customers and the media alike, and focused the spotlight on ServusXchange. In 2008, the young company received a Dell Top 10 Innovator Award, which was swiftly followed by with a Forbes America’s Most Promising Company Award in 2009.

For more information about ServusXchange and MyOnlineToolbox, please visit www.myonlinetoolbox.com. For additional information about Telerik products and technologies, please visit www.telerik.com.

About ServusXchange
ServusXchange is a Business-To-Business-To-Consumer (B-2-B-2-C) information technology developer that provides a business process and work flow collaboration solution using patent-pending technologies and targeting very small to mid-sized contractors in the home repair and remodeling industries. The heart of the product line is MyOnlineToolbox.   Founded in 2005, ServusXchange, LLC. is a U.S. corporation based in Pompano Beach, Florida founded by Mr. Brian Javeline, Mr. Philip Tonks, and Mr. Michael Carson.

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Tens of thousands of organizations in over 90 countries rely on Telerik products. Telerik customers include many Fortune 2000 companies, as well as renowned educational, governmental and non-profit institutions.

Microsoft Bulgaria Ltd partner recognised at global partner event for excellence
in product and service innovation, customer service and business growth strategy

SOFIA, BULGARIA — 28 June 2010 — Recognising excellence in the partner network in Central and Eastern Europe, Microsoft today announced that Telerik, a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET, was recognized as a winner of the 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The awards honour Microsoft Registered Partners, Microsoft Certified Partners and Microsoft Gold Certified Partners that have delivered exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year.  Telerik was selected based on its Sitefinity content management system (CMS).

 Award winners were chosen from the partner network in the region and will be recognised at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010, the company’s premier annual event for industry partners, held between 11 and 15 July in Washington D.C. The award winners were selected by Microsoft from a group of nominations based on their dedicated use of Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for their customers’ needs.

"To be selected by Microsoft for this prestigious honor clearly demonstrates Telerik's leadership role in the software market," said Vassil Terziev, Telerik CEO. "We are thrilled that Telerik has been recognized as a Microsoft Partner of the Year for our Sitefinity CMS product, as it underscores our commitment to providing outstanding innovation and value to our customers.”

Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS, based on market-proven ASP.NET development patterns, is a comprehensive development tool enabling rapid creation and deployment of richly interactive web pages. The product’s unique architecture, which incorporates Master Pages, templates, standard and user controls, themes and CSS, also allows seamless integration of legacy applications and third-party widgets to deliver unparalleled functionality.

“This year, nearly 300 of our CEE partners entered the competition for the opportunity to win a Partner of the Year Award, showcasing an impressive range of offerings they had pioneered in their markets.  We are delighted to recognise the partners whose entries demonstrated how they had gone the extra mile to offer something truly innovative and valuable to their customers,” said Ognian Kiriakov, General Manager, Microsoft Bulgaria Ltd. “Our partners make a vital contribution to the local business ecosystem, and according to a recent report from IDC, for every $1 USD Microsoft made in CEE in 2009, partner organizations made more than $10.44 USD.  At the Worldwide Partner Conference this year, we celebrate their contribution to CEE and recognise their success.”

Microsoft’s dynamic ecosystem, with over 250,000 partners in EMEA, accounts for as much as two-thirds of the IT industry in this region.  The Worldwide Partner Conference is designed to showcase best practice examples, connect partners to local executives and, critically, help them develop compelling solutions for customers using new technologies such as Windows 7, helping fuel short-term recovery and long-term growth.

IDC’s report at the economic impact of Microsoft’s technology in CEE, found that software drives activity in the services and distribution sectors as well as in IT-using organizations, which means that while spending on packaged software was only 14% of total IT spending in 2009, 41% of IT employment was software-related. Companies in the Microsoft ecosystem employ 211,000 people and IT using organizations employ another 392,000 IT professionals who work with Microsoft software or the products and services based on it. Together, these employees will account for 50% of IT-related employment in 2009 and 53% of IT-related taxes in the region.

The 2010 Microsoft Central and Eastern European awards recognise innovation and business value in 13 categories, and winners represent the top performers of the region’s IT industry.

About Telerik
Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Tens of thousands of organizations in over 90 countries rely on Telerik products. Telerik customers include many Fortune 2000 companies, as well as renowned educational, governmental and non-profit institutions.

About the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference provides Microsoft’s partner community with access to key marketing and business strategies, leadership, and information regarding specific customer solutions designed to help partners succeed in the marketplace.

Along with informative learning opportunities covering sales, marketing, services and technology, the Worldwide Partner Conference is an ideal setting for partners to garner valuable knowledge from their peers and from Microsoft. More information can be found
at http://www.microsoft.com/partner/events/wwpartnerconference and on the Partner Program home page at https://partner.microsoft.com.

News and new digital content will be posted continually throughout the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. For the latest content, please visit the event newsroom at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wwpc/.
For the latest on the Central and Eastern Europe partners and news: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/microsoftinceevpr/WPC.aspx.

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential.

For all news in EMEA, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/default.aspx.

Developer Vendors Win Best of Tech Ed 2010 Awards

Waltham, MA, June 14, 2010 - Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for Microsoft’s .NET platform, today announced that its Ultimate Collection for .NET was named as a Winner in the Best of TechEd 2010 awards program in the Components and Middleware category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

"The Telerik Ultimate Collection provides a complete set of Windows Forms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight controls. This product won because in addition to its controls, it provides support for the Open Access data access framework, as well as Web Test Studio for testing web applications," noted the judging panel.

The Best of TechEd 2010 awards recognize companies who offer innovative products for the industry. The judges reviewed 298 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 46 finalists to be interviewed at the Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2010 IT pro conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 9, 2010. Winners were announced at an invite only evening reception at the Hard Rock Café on June 9th and are available on-line at http://www.windowsitpro.com and http://northamerica.msteched.com.

“Telerik is honored to be recognized as a Best of TechEd 2010 award winner by such well regarded voices of software development at one of the most important conferences for our industry,” said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “This award validates Telerik’s importance in the software development industry and our ability to effectively address every stage of the software development process with tools to enable greater productivity, efficiency, and improved finished product quality, while saving time and producing measureable ROI.”

Telerik’s Ultimate collection for .NET includes Telerik’s entire suite of developer tools and automated testing to help software development teams build applications faster with more powerful features out of the box. The bundle includes all Telerik user interface control suites including ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, MVC, WinForms, and WPF; tools for Reporting and ORM, Code Analysis, and Mocking; and WebUI Test Studio Developer Edition.

“Choosing the best product in each of 16 categories—from our list of 46 products—was both daunting and exhilarating for our judging panel,” said Jason Bovberg, Senior Editor of Windows IT Pro. “All 46 finalists represent highly distinguished products and services in their categories. Through our exhaustive interview process, it was clear that some of our winners stood a step above the pack, whereas other picks were more difficult to determine. The winners in those categories typically offered an edge in product functionality, boasted enhanced feature sets in new versions, or introduced innovative technology—giving them a slight advantage over the competition,” remarked Bovberg. Winners were chosen based on their innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers.

In addition, two other Telerik solutions were recognized as finalists in the Best of TechEd 2010. Telerik Reporting was selected in the Business Intelligence category and Telerik OpenAccess ORM was selected in the Database Development category.

About Windows IT Pro

Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro community is the heartbeat of the Windows IT world—a gathering of people, content and resources focused on Microsoft Windows technologies and applications. Within this community you’ll find independent analysis, candid appraisals, real-world troubleshooting, trustworthy content, and behind-the-scenes insight to help you keep your Windows infrastructure running smoothly. Content is delivered on a daily, weekly and monthly basis via Windows IT Pro magazine, SQL Server Magazine, OfficeSharePointPro Web site, Windows DevPro Web site, and a variety of other channels including blogs, forums, podcasts, white papers, newsletters, videocasts and more. For more information, visit www.windowsitpro.com.

About Penton Media

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for the Microsoft .NET Framework, announced the Q2 2010 Beta Release of RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF. Among the highlights are: Assembly Minifier for Silverlight, which reduces the size of the RadControls assemblies; five new identical controls for both suites among which DataFilter, DataPager and BusyIndicator.

“By reducing the size of the RadControls Assemblies, the Assembly Minifier ultimately reduces the size of the XAP file of the application,” said Nikolay Atanassov, Telerik Silverlight teams Unit Manager. “The end-users will immediately feel the difference too, because the loading time of your Silverlight application will decrease significantly.”

The Telerik Assembly Minifier allows developers to choose a list of controls to be used in their Silverlight application, analyzes the dependencies between them and then produces a new set of optimized assemblies. The new assemblies contain only the selected controls and the resources used by them. Using the Assembly Minifier Tool, developers can keep the downloaded size of their application to the bare minimum. Currently the tool supports only Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and is in Beta stage.

The preview of the upcoming Q2 release also features 5 new additions to the RadControls for Silverlight and RadControls for WPF suites: RadDataFilter, RadDataPager, RadBusyIndicator, RadDateTimePicker and an improved RadTreeListView.

Read RadControls for Silverlight full release notes

Read RadControls for WPF full release notes

 

Waltham, MA, June 6, 2010 – Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and solutions for the Microsoft .NET Platform announced today that it has been recognized with a CodeProject 2010 Members Choice Award in the Silverlight Tools category. The Code Project, one of the world’s largest online developer communities, announced the winners of their Second Annual Members Choice awards for best development products and tools at a reception preceding Microsoft’s TechEd 2010 conference in New Orleans.

“We are honored to be acknowledged by the CodeProject community for our products’ excellence,” said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “At Telerik we strive to offer cutting edge solutions for every aspect of the software development process and this award reflects the true recognition of our customers and users. Being selected by CodeProject members for a second consecutive year confirms that we are moving in the right direction.”

CodeProject.com members were asked to rate their favorite development tools at the CodeProject website, http://catalog.codeproject.com/ based on members experience in-the-field. Products receiving the highest rating in each product category were recognized. Telerik ranks highest in the Silverlight Tools category.  

“As before, The Code Project Members Choice Awards reflect the diversity and depth of the tools available to professional developers around the world,” Jeff Hadfield, president of The Code Project (USA). “This past year has brought even more user interface (UI) tools but also more tools to support all aspects of the development process. Congratulations to the winners, and to the development community for encouraging innovation and excellence.”

About the Code Project
The Code Project is one of the largest development communities in the world, comprising involved professional developers, development managers, and architects. An industry-leading community since 1999, The Code Project has more than 7.1 million registered members since its inception. Developers worldwide contribute quality, how-to articles about all aspects of development, including Windows, web and server projects. Over 3.4 million developers visit the site each month to access its lively discussion boards and more nearly 28,000 articles, complete with source code and examples. www.codeproject.com

New Orleans, LA, June 7 – Telerik, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and leading vendor of development tools and solutions for the Microsoft .NET Platform, will deliver several key technical presentations and showcase its industry leading array of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as user interface components and content management solutions, for the .NET Platform this week at TechEd in booth number 2001.

Telerik will offer live demonstrations in its booth highlighting new additions to its product portfolio including TeamPulse, an integrated system for agile project management utilizing Microsoft’s team collaboration platform, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010; and WebUI Test Studio 2010, an innovative automated testing tool combining industry-first support for modern technologies like Silverlight, AJAX, and the Model-View-Controller (MVC). Telerik will also showcase several new features across its UI component suites in demonstrations at its booth.

Telerik speakers will be featured in several critical sessions during the conference as well.  
Details are:

“The Agile Methodology Demystified: Implementing Agile in Your Organization”
Sunday, June 6, 10 am – 6 pm

Stephen Forte, Chief Strategy Officer, Telerik and Joel Semeniuk,  Executive Vice President, Telerik Team Productivity Tools Division, will lead a pre-conference seminar on Agile project management and development methods, providing an introduction to the basics of Agile and Scrum through real-world applications of the methodology drawn from their own experience.

“Building RESTful Applications with the Open Data Protocol”
Wednesday, June 9     3:15 - 4:30 pm

Stephen Forte, Chief Strategy Officer, Telerik will lead a discussion that defines REST, demonstrates how REST can enable data using the Open Data Protocol (OData) and provides an overview of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services.

“Scrum vs. Kanban: Enemies or Synergies”
Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 - 2:45 pm

Steve Borg, Chief Strategy Officer, Telerik and Joel Semeniuk, Executive Vice President, Telerik Team Productivity Tools Division, will lead discussion on what makes Scrum and Kanban unique as well as how they can work together to produce stunning team results.

“Lean Thinking, Hefty Results”
Thursday, June 10 8:00 - 9:15 am

Joel Semeniuk, Executive Vice President, Telerik Team Productivity Tools Division, will lead a discussion on the fundamentals of Lean Thinking as it applies to building great software. Discussion will cover how various agile practices, from XP, Scrum, to FDD support Lean Thinking as well as how Lean management techniques such as Kanban can be used to enhance how teams think about and produce software.

Grontmij | Carl Bro A/S, an international company providing consultancy services in the fields of building, transportation, water, environment, energy and industry is using Telerik Reporting to save coding time and build an expandable solution with swift performance and rich users interface.

The main objective was to design and develop a web application that would provide users with an overview of construction budgets, contacts and all documents related to the properties and buildings they managed. The complexity and performance requirements of their system required a reporting solution that could handle 12 different custom report types, perform data operations dynamically as well as offer database lookup and binding at runtime without the need to recompile the code.

“It was a great experience working with this product.” said Janus S. Andersen, lead developer in Grotmij | Carl Bro A/S. “With Telerik Reporting we were able to achieve the functionality that most of the other reporting solutions didn’t offer.”

Telerik Reporting helped Grotmij | Carl Bro A/S create a solution which has the necessary functionality and flexibility to handle their business data with minimal coding. Thanks to Telerik’s tool they are able to provide much needed functionalities like runtime data grouping, filtering and sorting. Their system now ensures fast report generation and delivery thanks to the dynamic data linking capabilities of Telerik Reporting.

View the video case study to learn more about how Grontmij | Carl Bro, Inc. is using Telerik Reporting, as well as other tools provided by Telerik to improve its operations.

About Grontmij | Carl Bro A/S

Grontmij | Carl Bro is part of the Grontmij Group – one of the largest players in the European consultancy market with an annual turnover of EUR 846.2m (2008) and just over 8000 employees distributed among 150 European divisions and 20 offices in the rest of the world.

Contact Grontmij | Carl Bro A/S: Janus.andersen@gmail.com or jsi@gmcb.dk

About Telerik

Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Tens of thousands of organizations in over 90 countries rely on Telerik products. Telerik customers include many Fortune 2000 companies, as well as renowned educational, governmental and non-profit institutions.

Waltham, MA, June 3, 2010 - Telerik, a leading provider of development tools and solutions for the Microsoft® .NET platform, announced today that it has been recognized by SD Times in the SD Times 100 Awards 2010 in the Components and Libraries category for the fourth consecutive year.

"The software development industry is led by innovative companies like Telerik," said Alan Zeichick, Editorial Director of BZ Media's SD Times. "When choosing the 2010 SD Times 100, we carefully considered each organization's products and services, reputation with software development managers, and the new ideas and thought leadership that it has brought to the industry. Thanks to companies like Telerik, a leader in enabling developer productivity, the art and science of software development continues to advance at a rapid pace."

The SD Times 100 recognizes software industry organizations and individuals that have demonstrated innovation and leadership in the previous year. The SD Times 100 looks for companies, non-commercial organizations, open-source projects and other influencers that have determined a direction that developers followed. According to the publication, the 100 companies and projects selected have demonstrated their ability to set the agenda and advance the state of the art.

SD Times and SD Times.com editors, as well as readers of SD Times, submit nominations for the SD Times 100, and previous year's winners are automatically nominated. Telerik’s leading-edge .NET Developer Toolbox is designed to enable high-performance productivity for .NET developers working across the software development lifecycle.

“Telerik is honored to be recognized by SD Times as ‘setting the agenda’ in the software industry,” said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “We strive to offer cutting edge solutions for every facet of the software development process.  Being selected for the SD Times 100 award for four consecutive years endorses that we are moving in the right direction. We would like to take the opportunity and thank the editors of SD Times and all of our customers and partners for their continued support.”

About BZ Media and SD Times
BZ Media’s SD Times® is the twice-monthly newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 60,000 subscribers in 131 countries. SD Times was recognized by Media Business Magazine as the fastest-growing IT publication in 2007.

Waltham, MA, June 1, 2010 – Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, announced today that three Telerik solutions have been selected as finalists in the “Best of TechEd NA 2010” awards. Telerik Reporting was selected in the Business Intelligence category, Telerik OpenAccess ORM was selected in the Database Development category and Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET was selected in the Software Components & Middleware category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The Best of TechEd NA 2010 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products in the industry. The judges reviewed hundreds of products and services submitted for the contest and chose finalists to be interviewed at the TechEd NA 2010 Conference in New Orleans, LA. Winners will be announced on June 9 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and again from the Penton Media booth, number 1900, on the TechEd expo floor on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 1:00 PM.

“In today’s competitive environment, having the right tools for any job is critical to success,” said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “Being recognized in three individual “Best of TechEd” categories by publications of the caliber of Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine is truly an honor, and demonstrates our ability and effectiveness in delivering innovative, best-of-breed solutions supporting the software application cycle as a whole.”

For more information about Telerik and its products, please visit www.telerik.com or visit them during the TechEd NA 2010 Conference at booth number 2001 in New Orleans, LA.

About Penton Media

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

Accenture Unveils Enhanced Technology Solutions to Help Insurers Focus on Operational Efficiency and Profitable Growth

Not long after the official premier of WebUI Test Studio 2010, we are excited to announce that Service Pack 1 of Telerik automated testing tools was released yesterday, May 18, and is now available for immediate download from your client.net account. A couple of requested features were introduced, a lot of known issues – fixed, and a number of enhancements implemented. Some of the highlights include:

• Run a test to a certain step – now you can play a just a part of all the recorded steps in a test
• The long-awaited Silverlight ChildWindow / Popup support is available with SP1 as well
• RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight translators are enhanced
• Various optimization of the Silverlight recording functionality
• Both the QA Edition and the Developer Edition take advantage of the optimizations that come with SP1.

Read a blog on what’s new in SP1

Read full release notes