Video: 6 years of partnership between Microsoft and Kentico

Kentico and Microsoft’s partnership dates back to 2006 when Kentico became a Microsoft Certified Partner, achieving Gold status partnership just two years later.  Our close cooperation with Microsoft has continued to flourish and today involves a number of activities:

1. Kentico is continuously adopting new Microsoft technologies and products. Thanks to early access to new Microsoft product versions, we are ready to support them by their official release date (e.g. Visual Studio). Kentico CMS was also one of the earliest adopters of the Windows Azure Cloud Platform.
    
2. Kentico regularly supports the Microsoft .net community by:
   • sponsoring a number of code camps and give camps
   • providing a .net user group support program
   • providing webinars designed to teach .NET development using a combination of Visual Studio and Kentico CMS
   • participating in industry events, evangelizing the advantages of .NET framework and Visual Studio
   • organizing annual Kentico Connection Conferences in the US and Europe together with Microsoft as a key sponsor and partner, focused around .Net and Kentico technologies.
   • running the Kentico CMS for ASP.NET Marketplace – a place to share website templates, web parts, modules and other add-ons.
3. Kentico participates in the Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program which helps to jumpstart business development for small professional Web development and design companies.

During this time Microsoft has become more than just a partner to us; with 7 different websites they have also become one of our 2,500+ valuable clients.  

Currently, Kentico holds Gold ISV and Silver Web Development competencies.

Listen to Gavin Warrener, World-Wide Evangelism Discipline Lead at Microsoft on their partnership with Kentico: