Progress Kendo UI Reviews

In any complex interface working with tabular data, where you need to have a variety of ways to edit/manage the data at the record level. The suite has a very mature documentation and support system, implementation is highly standardized.

Highly scalable and easy to use, has superior quality updates when compared to other competing products. Documentation is easy to find and browse, has a large user community that contributes with examples and answers to questions.

Excellent response times to support tickets!

Kendo UI is great if you need flexible components that have a standard look and feel. If you are looking for something with a more distinct way of interacting with the user, then you should probably roll your own.

Update: Over time, Kendo has gotten more flexible. If you are good at CSS, then you can make Kendo's components look and feel the way you need. I've used Kendo at 2 firms now and I'm glad it's available where I go. I'm guessing that it is a goto for Microsoft .Net shops.

I would go higher, but the learning curve is steep at times and the documentation takes some getting used to. Once you get the hang of it, it goes pretty smoothly, but occasionally, you will hit a wall that is hard to scale. Progress has provided troubleshooting tools, but unless you are full time in the Kendo world, they aren't always all that helpful.

To be fair, I haven't utilized their support in a long time. My past experiences were mixed. I didn't always get an answer when I asked one. I'm guessing that hasn't changed much, but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. Their forums are okay, but I wish they would just utilize Stack Overflow as their support forum.

It could be used in almost every JavaScript framework. It's easy to implement in applications. The kendo widgets are able to be used in almost any type of business application which has a UI. Thus helping in building complex applications.

I have faced issues in past and they were very well handled by Kendo Support team.

We have migrated our old product to MVC. In old version we have used asp.net controls but those are quite difficult for implementation. But with kendo UI that made easy. We are using kendo grid for performance CRUD operations for most of the functionality. Grid is very easy to implement and it provides various configurations like paging, sorting, filtering. we can use Tool bar to to provide buttons like Add, Edit, Delete and Export to excel.
We have used every where and in every scenario kendo UI only so do not find any less point with it.

Kendo UI worth the rating 10 as it is very easy to learn and implement. It make UI make look beautiful and standard.
It has various control options which almost fit in all scenarios so do not need to look for other UI software's. It make developers life easy.
Also it is very easy to train our Users.

After upgrade to latest 2020 version we faced issue with one of the control which we have used at many places. we tried all the possible solution but was not able to fix the issue so we filed help ticket with Kendo support and did fabulous job. we were vary happy with their response.

First the suite is feature rich, second it is well documented, third is it well support, fourth it is has a clear roadmap and fifth it is reasonably priced. Anything web based or mobile based is a good candidate for reviewing the feature set of progress Kendo UI for use. That is our business case.

The documentation is generally very good. The examples and demos are useful to get started. The default properties will get the app running and are easily updated. The few times that I needed support, I received a response quickly and to the point. There really isn't much more to ask for usability.

I am customer of progress for a number of years and Telerik before that. I have always chosen to opt in for the best support plan. I hardly have ever need to use it, when I have put in a support request via email or phone, the response was always quick, professional and on point. In this industry that is refreshing. The support usually include sample code. The ten rating is deserved.

Kendo has worked really well in Angular 1.x for us. I haven't tried using it later version of Angular or Vue, but plan to test these areas out in the near future.
--UPDATE-- Kendo works really well with Angular 9 and I would assume Angular 10 but I have not actually updated my project to 10 yet. The ability to use similar controls between Angular and .NET MVC is great!

I gave Kendo UI's usability a 10 because it is pretty straightforward to add to projects and the controls look great with a lot of examples on the Telerik (Progress) website to make adding and using them very easy. The functionality that comes with each control delivers on exactly what we need for the projects.

To be honest, I have barely used their support because the documentation and examples are so extensive. With that said, the few times that I have reached out to support, they were able to either correct my issue quickly or direct me to the appropriate page to resolve my issues.

It's well suited for smaller development teams looking to deliver on a tight schedule.
As for any toolkit, it's important to establish development standards that everyone adheres to.
Less appropriate for teams that need to control every detail of the UI. The CSS is not super intuitive to tweak, and sometimes near impossible. If you require 100% control of the look and feel, this product may not be right for you.

Once you learn the basics, the same concepts can be applied to all the features. Its API is easy to navigate and is documented thoroughly. When something isn't clear, chances are someone has already had the same issue.
There are some edge cases when we needed something ultra-customized which the API didn't support. In those cases we were able to use JavaScript or other means as a workaround.

I haven't had much interaction with the Kendo UI. The few tickets I raised were answered promptly. I am almost always better served by searching their knowledge base or various forums. One of the strength of the product is its popularity, which makes it easier to find support and answers to common questions.

Any web development, especially if it regards a web application and not a website.

Sometimes following the internal logic is not so easy, but overall it's fine. When you have a problem, anyway, you can contact customer support and receive a proper hint for what you're trying to do.

In just very few very specific and domain oriented cases I didn't get a full valid answer: usually the answers are spot on with examples.

a) Scenarios where Kendo UI is well suited: Kendo UI provides awesome ways to either extend existing widgets, create custom plugins that are completely new widgets or composite of existing Kendo UI controls by inheriting from the base widget class. Kendo UI works well with ASP.NET Web API and OData.
b) Scenarios where Kendo UI is less appropriate: Don't know.

Kendo UI for jQuery library has a long history of great quality, frequent updates and an excellent documentation. There are lots of free technical training courses, the interactive training resource Kendo UI Dojo and lots of examples.

Kendo UI for jQuery has an industry leading support. There are lots of free technical training courses, lots of examples, Telerik Forums and much more ...

The examples and support are getting better and better, but I still miss a more complete set of programming examples. Not all objects' properties and methods are documented with simple examples showing its usage.

Sometimes the solutions presented by the support team are really fast and precise, but, in some situations, the effort describing the problem, sending source code, and small movies showing the problems simply does not work as expected, resulting in lots of unproductive interactions.

KendoUI is well rounded for any development you plan to do that is Web focused

Its simply one of the best frameworks I have used

There support is always fast to respond and the community support is amazing as well

I use Kendo UI in HTML5 single page scenarios and like it very much. I use open source grid view controls for places were virtualizations are needed because the amount of rows is very big (> 50000). I also mix Kendo UI with open source controls.

Easy to learn API, Good documentation, many examples and good support.

Just excellent. Questions are answered with 24 hours, most of the time from developers directly.

Kendo UI cover almost all the business requirements. It provides all necessary and extra elements. We use it for all things data related.
Like:
Form elements
Grids
Pagination, Virtual paging
Server side data call / filtering
Event handling

It is very fast and reliable. We never had any problem with it.
Documentation is great for new learners but I would like to see more complex examples in documentation

Support is good. Kendo UI support team is easily reachable and very helpful.

Progress Kendo UI is good when it comes to user experience and also good from a developer's perspective.

Highly scalable and easy to use. Documentation is easy to find and browse and has a large user community that contributes with examples and answers to questions.

Solutions presented by the support team are really fast and precise. The user forums help most of the time in getting answers to our queries easily.

If your application is not data intensive, then Progress Kendo UI can be considered. If your web application is complex and requires multiple controls to be used, go through Progress Kendo UI's Library and you will almost always find what you need. Progress Kendo UI has coverage for almost all recent web platforms, so if you are looking for something outside that, it won't work.

We find what we need in the library and it is easy to use and implement. The resources available help for quicker implementation and work to meet our needs. The development cycle is reduced. As well as overall quality, user experience has improved with the use of Progress Kendo UI.

The support response is excellent. In addition to this, the user forums help most of the time in getting answers to our queries easily. The support response was timely, appropriate, and accurate, explaining the missing links and things to be done to take care of them. This has really helped us get out of dead end situations a couple of times in the past.

We upgraded a large web application by plugging in componentized versions of the Progress Kendo UI functionality. This allowed us to do a complete visual revamp without a large scale rewrite. On the back of that, we have continued to add more features (all based on Kendo) to increase user experience and productivity.

Deep and comprehensive functionality, but requires a decent level of understanding to get the best out of it.

Always good.

Kendo UI is awesome for responsive web applications; we can use this in order to reduce programming effort and focus on functional requirements.

Kendo UI learning curve is lightweight, in a few days we can feel comfortable and we can reach more amazing user experience with a little effort. For our organization this is a key point.

May be Kendo UI can improve it's documentation, give more examples and use cases would be nice. However they have an excelent forum support.

It is important for us that learning curve be as lightweight as it can be. Kendo UI give us this without problems because each component is easy to use.

Usually, we don't have to contact support team in order to use Kendo UI, however we can see that in forum, anwer to kestions is relatively fast but some time we find questions that have not been answered yet.

Kendo UI works well if developing web UI applications which have simple layout designs. - Good
A scenario where there are a lot of Kendo widgets on a single UI page, and each has a complex initialization. - Not so good

it's easy to implement in applications. The kendo widgets are able to be used in almost any type of business application which has a UI. For most part, once the developer has completed a project which uses Kendo, many time code can be copy/paste into a new application. Kendo UI documentation keeps improving so finding the answers to questions can be easy.

I give it a 10 primarily because I have yet to have an issue where I'm unable to find a solution. Most situations where I think I might want to create a support ticket, someone else has already ran into the same issue. Someone from Kendo has either already updated any blogs or support message with the solution.

Well suited: when you have to show information in form list the grid control is excellent, for controlling the input registered by the users and validate the business rules its amazing, we can control a lot of situations that can generate problems in future process and avoid it.

Less appropriate: may be if you have to display in a grid a lot information and have a lot columns too, we are not sure what is the behavior of the control. We saw grid controls that works excellent with a few records and have a small columns less than ten, but on this controls you use more than a ten columns and have thousands o more registers that controls don't work well. But in the case of kendo ui grid control we have grids with more than ten columns and have hundred of records to show and its work good.

Its easy to use to build complex UI

When we have to use it, they respond quickly

Using the tab panels has been very helpful to our internal applications. The business needs to view and edit a lot of data when they interact with our customers and prospects. Organizing the fields into different tabs makes this a lot easier.

Rich web development where you want to easily inherit the use of libraries such as jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular. Kendo UI is valuable to me in that I do not have the skills or patience to develop components on my own, and Kendo provides fairly easy plug-and-play components. I am new to JS, jQuery, and HTML development in general and found it fairly easy to learn how to develop nice looking pages for our product in short order.

I have found that responsive development for phones is not as clean using Kendo. I would say that tablet sized screens and up are the sweet spot.

Consistent organization and design of widgets, excellent documentation, large user community. As a licensed user, downloading updates to the libraries and integrating them into new builds has been simple. Telerik is constantly updating this library and providing new widgets or improvements to widgets on a quarterly basis. Renewals and interactions with customer service has been excellent.

Kendo UI is continually updated, widgets are improved quarterly, and the product is being given appropriate attention from Progress. Customer support has always been responsive. Renewals are processed easy and the customer portal is easy to use. I appreciate the ability to earn points and discounts via the customer portal.

It is a great way to display data to your end users, it provides cross-browser functionality that looks good and is relatively easy to customize using css or less. Like a lot of javascript controls out there, it can sometimes get bogged down with lots of data or large numbers of controls.

They consistently make good design decisions that help integrate Kendo into your app easily

In the few times I have asked for support, it has been helpful and given in a timely manner.

There are a lot of controls that we actually ended up not needing. I think Kendo is ideally suited for web applications that have a more broad customer base and a more typical browser profile (large mobile base, and a good mix of different browser types and screen sizes).

Kendo UI is well suited for the agile team that supports rapid developments.

Kendo UI is perfect when you start to develop the application from scratch and it is less appropriated when you have different architectures applied in a existing project. They always update their portifolio and give new functionalities to be used. They have always updated their set of components to be used to latest technologies.

It is easy to use because they have a sort of documentation in their own website and also in another sites in the web. Usually they publish frequently asked questions. The UIs rarely has bugs and it works well. Rarely I need to update the components due a bug.

I have the support subscription, so I don't know for the person that don't have it. For me, that owns it, it works very quickly and they are very objective trying to find the solution. They don't take much time to answer. When they don't know the answer in hands, they always try to find at least an workaround to have it working.