I have been a Telerik Insider for a while now (http://www.telerik.com/community/insiders.aspx). Which in my case mostly means that I have a strong relationship with the guys from Telerik, especially having them sponsors and bringing speakers at the conferences and events I organize.

Telerik is a product company, which builds tools and products especially for Microsoft technologies companies. This year I could make it to their Insiders’ Summit in Orlando, FL, where I found out more things about their products, but mostly about their vision on the Microsoft technologies. They really proved that they understand technology, where Microsoft is heading, what are the day-to-day challenges of software teams.

Though we have used some of their controls in the past, we are now looking deeper into what they’ve built in the last months. I am mostly excited by Kendo UI (their library for HTML 5) and TeamPulse (their Agile project management solution). There are some publicly available webinars here: http://www.telerik.com/support/webinars.aspx.