Progress Kendo UI Reviews

It has a good redesign of the components we cannot find in other UI. I have even noticed a lot of improvement in the file upload component. Particularly, it has been very easy to make it work.

It works perfectly with Vue. I have had no problems adding components.

The ThemeBuilder is the best. You can customize the theme of the application without touching a single line of code. The results in examples are shown in real-time.

They should improve the documentation on certain components, not all of them have well-detailed help.

Multi Platform Support

Detailed usage guide for all the feature

Grid control provides flexibility to create robust design

Fast troubleshooting support from the Progress Kendo UI Team

Standardized UI

Easy to apply customizations

Upgrade process is very complex and has led to breaks in the UI design. More stable approach needs to be designed for the same

Initial learning curve is required while implementing by the developers

Showing data in a table/grid.

Drag and drop functionality.

Accessing remote data to widgets.

Better error handling messages.

Examples for edge cases.

Easy to setup and use

Good documentation for different integrations and APIs

Support for popular front end development frameworks like Angular and React

Good video tutorials are available for the team to understand the design framework

Easy to implement complex data grid requirements on the website

Integrating custom built code snippets is complex

Upgrades are time consuming

Support team needs to have more knowledge about micro functionalities and their implementation

Especially the Grid control provides us lot of simplified controls

The various environment and frameworks support

Easy to develop and integrate with third party application

Well documented for easy to understand

Need some real time example codes. Demo codes are really simple

We need to focus more on improvements. Because the upgraded versions have more bugs compared to the older versions

Better development of User Interface

Increases performance of applications

Integration with lot of UI frameworks like Angular, React

Powerful customization capabilities

There is still much space for further customization

It should be more generic and should have easier documentation

Configurability in style and feature.

Different ways to connect the component to data sources.

A Support team that is fairly responsive to user inquiries, including specific usage scenario.

More centralized resource for practical/real-world implementation examples.

Performance issues with certain components when handling a large record set.

It is very simple to set up.

Its API is extensive, incredibly well-documented, and grows regularly.

It supports integration within multiple popular frameworks and libraries.

Demos are extensive and easy to use.

Custom functionality can be difficult and extensive to implement.

Theme customization is limited to two choices: Overly complex LESS source, or very limited SCSS.

With a direct license to the source, upgrading can be time-consuming and require a lot of retesting.

Integration

Scalability

Ease of use

I don't remember any issues while using it

It does well with complex grid requirements.

Will make your site look highly professional with its editor controls.

It's easy to implement the Kendo UI on a web project.

There is a little learning curve on using some of the controls.

Kendo does grids very well. The filtering and sorting features that come with grids has helped boost our development time.

Kendo has exceptional support. We have always received answers to problems we've had. Not all of them were solved by support but they at least allowed us to figure out how to solve the problem in another way.

The community forum is very good as well. Before contacting support, we consult the forums to see if someone has already solved the problem we're having. Support from the Telerik community is really good.

At times it seems that there are performance issues with the grid. It could be that it is due to how data is structured and retrieved from the data source but most of the time it is quite responsive.

There are times where more complex scenarios come up. Having some examples of more than just basic functionality would be nice.

Kendo Grid for presenting a timeline of research grants as they are being approved. Our users love the ability to export the data to various mime formats.

Kendo Scheduler for presenting the upcoming calendar events in the available conference rooms in a building. This is used together with a 3rd party vendor API for appointment booking.

Kendo Treeview is used to present a hierarchy of topics that our users can navigate through easily.

Still some accessibility issues in some of the controls, we have to occasionally modify the markup to get past our accessibility requirements.

I really like the editor control. It just makes having WYSWYG input easy to implement.

At first, the Kendo Grid was a bit light on features, but it has grown over the years and is quite full featured.

The Window control is really quick to implement and is quite flexible as well.

We also found the carts control nicely flexible. Our software is highly configurable and we put the kendo charts into a product that can show any kind of chart and the Kendo chart control was a perfect fit.

Kendo keeps adding features and works with newer frameworks. They never stop being relevant.

I have found support to be lacking at times. Sometimes my questions just haven't been answered.

I do find the datasource a bit challenging to use. It works well if you don't try anything wierd, but after that I feel like I am on my own.

I still find their documentation to be lacking. I've worked with worse, but I certainly have found much better.

Components such as charts tables are of great help when it comes to software development.

Documentation is good so it saves time and effort.

It offers support for multiple JavaScript frameworks.

Though, documentation is good . It still needs to cover all the scenarios.

Upgrades are not easy since there is no proper communication regarding this.

Performance of Kendo controls is good. It is very easy to use ajax calls with kendo UI controls.

If we do Restore nuget packages without setting nuget package folder path then it mess up everything and needs to spent ample time on it to fix it.

It's quite difficult to find cons in Kendo UI. As it fits very good in all our scenarios.

In 2020 version of kendo we fond lots of changes in CSS class which made breaking changes in UI. means most of the css classes are broken down in smaller ones. that time we faced more issue than earlier upgrade.

Grids - The options are very useful. Drag and Drop. Integration with other controls such as comboboxes, buttons and images.

Charts - We create many different dashboards for our clients. This is a strong point of Kendo UI.

Spreadsheet - It is becoming more and more value added to our solutions for data import, export and review.

Treeview - An excellent visual tool for data relationship display and manipulation. We usually use it with Drag and Drop to add / remove / move data points.

The web site does not have versions in the forum or most of the documentation. So as features are improved, old method and events, etc. are deprecated, there is no simple to know which product version is being referenced. This is my biggest pain point.

Database binding examples - more examples please

PDF Export - better documentation and more examples. More feature control (unless it already exists and it isn't clearly documented).

Initial project use - the documentation to add to an existing project or to a blank project can be confusing because of the lack of version specific documentation. I would like to have a single place to go to for documentation that I can select via drop down the Telerik product, the version (2017.2.504), the target development environment (VS 2015 SP3, VS 2017), etc. to have the specific instructions. That would cut down the learning curve and issues on version updates. We consider Kendo UI a valuable tool, however this simple issue can be painful and there is no reason for it.

Really easy to incorporate the controls

Progress/Telerik is very helpful in feedback and engaging to further knowledge of updates.

Large community that provides fixes/known issue work-arounds.

I would have liked to have more input from Kendo folks early in our implementation process - we didn't ask.

The grid control provides a powerful way to present tabular data. This includes sorting, grouping, customizing the grid content/headers, and export to Excel spreadsheet

The combobox is powerful and easy to customize based on need (server filtering, in-line images, predictive text)

The dataviz components make it ridiculously easy to visualise data. Using a JSON source, it will produce beautiful graphs and charts.

The AngularJS controls lack some features

Certain UI components have not been updated in a while, or are more difficult to customize.

The CSS themes are somewhat lacking.

Very good grid component

Very good scheduler component

Stellar support

Basic components (e.g. editors) are not so much better than standar ones

Reduce development time

Easiliy create custom (e.g. composite) plugins

Easiliy write Kendo UI plugins

Numerous widgets out of the box.

Responsive components

Theamable components

Highly customizeable components

No query builder widget available.

No timezone calendar. Timezone should be adjustable.

Grid: Timezone should be adjustable

Reporting generation (features like reporting generation speed, friendly maintenance and exporting capabilities are really good).

Controls (extensions) availability is good, addressing the major part of interface development issues.

Fair amount of themes (skins) ready to be used and easy development of custom themes.

Documentation. There is lots of documentation available, but the examples do not cover all development possibilities. Seems the product has much more capabilities than shown in the examples available.

I miss a complete description of the classes hierarchy, for example.

Interface mockup. For ASP MVC, for example, there is no Visual placement for the controls available.

Sometimes the support team answers the questions placed linking examples that would already have been visited before asking for help, which is useless.

Kendo UI enhances the everyday common controls like grids. Grids have been around for some time now but the Kendo UI team continues to make the grid even better with things like Export functionality, nested views, frozen columns etc..

The documentation of Kendo UI is a hidden area that it does very well at. While the control suite is amazing with out solid documentation users would be unable to use the it effectively. The documentation not only covers the basic settings, setup, and api references, they also have reword example of how to do special customizing like hiding sections or changing colors, etc...

The Kendo UI team does very well on testing before each release to minimize issue for its users.

I would like to see KendoUI try to adopt to new standards quicker. I know they are trying to be platform agnostic but with things like Microsoft making a DateTimeOffset the new default db type the KendUI controls that handle Dates & Times need to support this. As of right now it still isnt fully support. I think using a library like momentJs can help. I mean KendoUI already uses 3rd Party library for the Grid Export for things like PDF.

KendoUI team does some cool things on their website and we would like to see some of those things make it into KendoUI. Like their Menu doesnt seem to be the same menu provided in KendoUI.

Kendo UI has a good styling system. So it can be easily adapted to the style of the website

Kendo UI has a perfect documentation and good support

Kendo UI is easy to learn

Kendo UI plays well with HTML5 single page scenarios

Virtualisation for all controls not only for GridView

Integration of Controls e.g. Combo Box with TreeList [order] GridView

Fast Kendo Grid

Supports all form components

Good integration with Angular

Server side data support

Server side filtering support

Documentation has very simple use case examples of components

Kendo Grid for presenting a timeline. At first, the Kendo Grid was a bit light on features, but it has grown over the years and is quite full featured.

Kendo Scheduler for presenting the upcoming calendar events.

Kendo Treeview is used to present a hierarchy of topics that our users can navigate through easily.

Kendo keeps adding features and works with newer frameworks. They never stop being relevant.

I do find the datasource a bit challenging to use. It works well if you don't try anything wierd, but after that I feel like I am on my own.

Database binding examples--more examples please.

Certain UI components have not been updated in a while or are more difficult to customize.