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What is Progress Kendo UI?
Kendo UI is a JavaScript UI toolkit that allows users to build responsive web-based apps integrated into their framework of choice (jQuery, Angular, React, or Vue). The vendor’s value proposition is that Kendo UI offers a large library of popular and configurable components ranging from sophisticated grids and charts to basic buttons, so users don’t have to waste development time building their UI. The vendor also says the large library of customizable themes means users can easily deploy a consistent look and feel across the entire user experience.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, All |
| Mobile Application | Kendo UI is a UI development framework for building mobile and web applications. Can be used on any operating system. |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
| Supported Languages | All Languages |
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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Progress Kendo UI are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Progress Kendo UI has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations across various industries. Users have relied on Kendo UI to fill gaps in their web applications, providing functional implementations for a variety of user interfaces. It has been used to integrate with CMS platforms like DotNetNuke, creating smooth and efficient data displays and entry portals. Kendo UI's powerful Scheduler control has been a preferred choice of developers, especially when working with frameworks like Aurelia. Additionally, it has been utilized in the development of online facility management systems, ASP MVC applications for generating business reports, and software for data insights companies to easily view and analyze data in various forms. The wide range of components offered by Kendo UI, including grids, masked text boxes, and cascaded drop-downs, has significantly reduced development time and allowed for easy integration of different products. Users have praised the simplicity and well-documented interface of Kendo UI, making it a reliable choice for organizations seeking to improve their user experience without extensive custom control development. With its pre-built widgets and APIs, Kendo UI has enabled faster development and multiple integrations for users. Whether it's developing customer-facing applications, managing internal business processes, or enhancing existing web applications, Kendo UI offers a modern user experience while meeting specific requirements. The flexibility of Progress Kendo UI empowers developers to create highly customizable applications that align with user preferences and requirements while significantly reducing development time.
Users of Kendo UI frequently recommend the following:
- Utilize the trial software to evaluate Kendo UI.
- Explore product demos and code samples to see the main functionality.
- Research the controls you are most interested in first before using Kendo UI.
Overall, users find Kendo UI to be a valuable tool for web development, particularly for projects requiring numerous form elements. It is also seen as an effective way to save development time. Users who are already familiar with JQuery and Angular find Kendo UI especially beneficial. Additionally, the self-hosted version of Kendo UI is generally preferred over the cloud version. The framework is praised for its customization options and supportive team.
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October 20, 2020
Kendo UI gets the UX
We use Progress Kendo UI for web and mobile apps. We develop products that are licensed to thousands of clients. Some clients request custom add-on apps, this is where the widgets get the most use for us. Also all of our in-house projects take advantage of the widgets.
- 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.
October 20, 2020
Easy to use and great service team
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Kendo UI is being used by my team to build/re-platform our legacy products. We are using Kendo UI controls in our Angular framework on the front-end. The applications will be used across the organization. The business problem Kendo UI addresses is the need to have a modern UX without needing to create a lot of custom controls.
- 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.
October 20, 2020
Ultimate configurability vs standard controls.
We use Kendo UI in a variety of our products. We had been using ASP.net for our client side development and it was just too limited and slow to develop. We started to look for something that would be good for productivity and was going to progress. We have replaced a lot of our old ASP.net code with Kendo and have developed a lot of new products using only Kendo UI for the front end. I have found support spotty at times, but overall, I am quite pleased with the product.
- 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.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
The IT Development team uses Kendo UI to develop in house Line of Business web applications. These applications collect and report on transportation accidents + incidents across Canada. Kendo UI enables us to provide a powerful and consistent UI across all applications for the organization. Components such as the Grid and the Combobox are used and customized extensively. Users enjoy a consistent experience across all applications.
- 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.
October 20, 2020
A very reliable web ui library
We use Kendo UI as a the main UI library for all the company's web applications. It's used across many projects right now, and I heavily rely on the grid and the scheduler components for core UI components, mainly in LOB softwares.
- Very good grid component
- Very good scheduler component
- Stellar support
- Basic components (e.g. editors) are not so much better than standar ones
October 19, 2020
yes you Kendo
We use kendo UI components in our internet banking solution, in an ASP.NET MVC based architecture.
the choice has been made by the it department, and the dev team integrated it
these components are very useful for complex ux (like grid hierarchy) or for its rich built in features (that we don’t have to redevelop or to encapsulate in a custom framework)
the choice has been made by the it department, and the dev team integrated it
these components are very useful for complex ux (like grid hierarchy) or for its rich built in features (that we don’t have to redevelop or to encapsulate in a custom framework)
- Very easy ajaxified hierarchical data grid with pdf/excel exports
- Easily skinnable ajaxified components
- The kendo UI has been very easily integrated into our nuget local server
- Very responsive support through tickets
- frequent software updates
- kendo UI should be at the same level as ASP.NET AJAX components (number of components, AJAX)
October 15, 2020
Good Development Tools
The Kendo UI has been used for ASP MVC applications development (C#). Those applications are responsible for generating business reports for areas like manufacturing and energy distribution, based on data stored in relational databases (SQL Server and Oracle).
- 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.
October 14, 2020
Kendo UI streamlines our development cycle
We use Kendo UI in our CRM, primarily to insure that our controls work across all browsers and to cut down on development time. The controls are attractive and easy to use, and allow enough customization points to give us the flexibility we need to create a competitive product offering.
- Kendo UI just works across different browsers and platforms.
- The controls have a robust eventing system that you can hook into for business logic.
- Support is always very responsive to any issues that we've had.
- Sometimes there aren't enough events to hook into, so you can get stuck with applying a workaround.
October 14, 2020
Kendo UI get's it done
Kendo UI is used in all custom developed web UI applications. Applications include department and enterprise level apps. We use Kendo UI to decrease development time by not having to create our own common widgets like grids and drop down lists. Kendo UI's JavaScript and CSS makes customizing the appearance of controls easy where the controls meet our color specifications.
- Displaying data in grids
- Centralizing UI themes
- Upgrading to new versions
- The Telerik control panel makes installing on developer machines easy
- Issues related to JavaScript can be challenging to track down
- Finding technical documents on how data is managed in individual widgets
- A better way in managing different versions of the same development machine
October 14, 2020
Our experience with Kendo UI
We use kendo UI to give more functionality to the pages of our internal site, with this controls we can build complex pages in a short time, at the beginning we have to read a lot, see examples of how to use the controls, search in the forums and make our laboratories to try what we want to build could be do it or not. Our internal site is used across the whole organization.
- Grid control is excellent, they have a lot of functionality that is easy to implement, also it have the option to export the data to Excel or pdf. Instead of building a lot of reports we display information using the grid control and the users have the option to export the result.
- The validation control is another good one, we can personalize the message to our language, build our rules to validate the information provide for the user and have more control in the process of input data to minimize problems of data processing,
- The Kendo window is excellent too. We can build powerful dialog windows in our site using a template, so the first one have the more effort and the others only use the template allow us a fast development in other pages.
- The documentation can be improvement, there are topics that no are so easy to understand when you read it about an a control (non in a particular). We have to search in forums and in one case we have to use the support for an a detail explanation of how we can use a control.
- The calendar control it's would be nice to have a way to show holidays, the user only have in memory some of then
- The gantt control also we don't use it, when we read about it, it's something complex to understand and have a lot of potencial
October 14, 2020
Kendo UI React in an industrial on premise web application
We use Kendo UI components within our industrial product's web interface. It is a part of our core product and is used by all customers. Consequently, it is important that it performs well and is bug free. We migrated to Kendo after updating our technology stack to React and needing a new control library as a result.
- Large component library
- Written natively in React
- Great documentation
- Support system is not very good. We had a few issues with our components which we traced back to flaws in the product.
- Performance of the grid component could have been a bit better.
- Style and customization is doable, but not the easiest.
October 14, 2020
KendoUI is unmatched in all areas
We build websites and software for internal uses as well as for our clients. Kendo UI saves us from having to reinvent the wheel on simple things like grid also while providing us unmatched features and support.
- 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.
October 14, 2020
Kendo UI helps to reduce development time
We develop an Online Facility Management System und use mainly Teleriks ASP.NET Controls but also Kendo UI for some of the more complex WebViews. We have one developer developing the Web Portal and some others developping Mobile Apps.
- 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
We produce a data-intensive web application for companies in the wholesale apparel industry. Our web products require high-performance UI components, including grids, drop-down lists, and charting controls. We selected Kendo UI as our supplier because it is an industry leader in this area and I have had a favorable experience with their products in the past. By using their products, we are able to shorten our development time and improve the quality and capability of our commercial offerings.
- The Kendo UI controls are flexible and configurable and can be adapted easily to multiple development frameworks.
- The Kendo UI controls are reliable and have proven to perform consistently and well in our production environment for years.
- The vendor provides excellent online documentation and support.
- The vendor makes an outstanding effort to keep current with the latest web technologies.
- The Kendo UI controls could provide more hooks for easily modifying style and appearance since we typically have a need to change the look and appearance for our application context.
- More sample code and tutorials would be greatly appreciated, particularly for Angular 2+.
- Better migration guides and release notes for new versions. Upgrading applications that are in place is always problematic. We would like to know what problems we might encounter in advance.
February 20, 2020
Progress UI is Pretty Handy
We're using it heavily in a CRM system we're building for the medical wholesaling industry. The solution is custom so I can't get into the specifics too deeply, but we're using Progress ASP.net MVC heavily for all of our crud entry and we're also using Progress Reports (not report server) to do a number of document style layouts in our app.
- Ease of use setting up grids for data entry.
- Reports Compile into DLL so there is no need to have a report server available.
- Progress reporting can be counter-intuitive and aggravating at times.
- Certain controls work better than others, the grids are great, but the calendar control, while full-featured, is lacking.
February 12, 2020
Kendo UI is useful to build a interactive user interface
It being used by our department. It addresses customization and integration problems in the UI. It's very very user-friendly and easy to use. I like the look and feel of the controls as well. Kendo UI allows you to quickly and easily add advanced functionality to your app by integrating our configurable components. Customizable themes enable you to effortlessly deploy a consistent look and feel across your apps.
- Customizable themes enable you to effortlessly deploy a consistent look and feel across your apps.
- Full-featured grid.
- Large component library
- Multi-framework support
- Getting out of the box solutions on some problems can be a challenge. Sometimes finding a solution for very complex issues can be hard to find.
- More documentation and examples are needed which is very useful in development and learning.
- Some of the graphing capabilities need updating.
February 10, 2020
A solid UI framework with a great support team
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kendo UI is being used to standardize a department's internal UI framework in my organization. We chose it to minimize the amount of time wasted searching online for solutions to standard UI component problems. The goal is to keep engineers focused on solving problems that our customers care about and reduce as much as we can the time we spend maintaining an internal component library.
- Charts.
- Cross platform UI components.
- Integrating new core UI features into the SPA specific libs.
- Formatting of PDF exports.
January 15, 2020
Kendo UI Review
We use Kendo UI on our website, which allows our customers to run their businesses. We also use the controls for our own internal systems. Kendo UI helped us complete our projects faster than if we were to create the results ourselves.
- Quick implementation
- Amazing support
- Documentation could be organized better.
- CSS classes are difficult to customize on occasion.
January 02, 2020
Kendo UI for Angular - Mostly Good
At Kapsch TrafficCom we use Kendo UI for Angular to create user interfaces for use by the end user of our product. Primary feature that we use is the kendo GRID to display large amounts of data in a readable table format. This technology is used by the UI/UX team. Solves problem of being able to efficiently and consistently present complex data to user.
- Well documented
- Fast and helpful support
- Lack of updates for KendoUI Angular
- Missing some specific features
We are a custom software development company. We used Kendo UI as part of the toolset used for a web application development for a Program/Project Management application for a state government agency. For improved usability, and easier Section 508 compliance, we needed a set of basic UI controls beyond basic HTML5 controls. This is the only client we are currently using this software on as we typically use tool standards as established by the client (which did specify the use of Telerik for this effort).
- Wide range of controls.
- We rarely run into development issues with the controls.
- Grid control is fairly robust, but you can always add more functionality.
November 29, 2019
Easy product for complex problems
Telerik provides me with powerful tools that meets my requirements. My organization has integrated this tool into almost every product. It gives me the simplest possible solution that solves many complex problems.
- Handling of large data in grid-form.
- The user experience of all tools.
- Customization of all tools.
- Not a lot of documentation available.
- Non-license users should also have some support available.
November 26, 2019
Kendo UI Review
We have used Kendo UI and other Telerik/Progress products for about 12 years. The library is highly effective for us and has allowed us to provide a strong user experience without the expense to develop custom controls. It is a very solid library and has worked for us in a number of web applications. In the few cases we have needed to contact support they have been very fast and skilled with both the product and technical communications.
- Quality support.
- Customizable library footprint.
- WCAG support.
- Works well with automated testing (TestComplete).
- Heavy first load.
- Customization needed for Knockout integration.
- Difficult to know if features not compliant with WCAG are in use.
November 19, 2019
Kendo UI Review
We are using Kendo UI for our website. It is used by our department. Specifically, we have used Kendo Masked Text Box for accepting zip codes from users. The Mask property of this control is very useful as we can add specific masks as per our clients' requirements for zip codes (e.g. in the US, there are various zip codes as per states. In this case for zip code we used masked text box).
- We can use Kendo Grid for showing records from the database. We just have to call the controller method on read method to bring records from the database. Also, using the toolbar, we can add buttons and use those to add, edit and delete records from database. In these ways, Kendo grid is very helpful.
- Masked text boxes. We are using masked text box for accepting zip code from user. Using mask property of this Kendo control, we can take specific input from users, e.g. 112-233-455.
- Spinners. Kendo spinners are very useful for showing work is in progress. On button clicks, we are showing spinner until page gets loaded.
- We have used Kendo Editor in our website for accepting large text input from the user. But the space between two words is getting saved as an upside-down question mark in our database and when users edit such content on the web page, it’s getting displayed as the question mark. So we had to do some extra work to fix this.
- Like numeric and masked text, we also need a plan text box for accepting any input from user.
- There should be an easy way to add custom CSS style or class to controls other than the inbuilt Kendo CSS classes. If we want to add some CSS styling to controls then we have to remove inbuilt CSS class first and then have to add a custom class or style property.
November 19, 2019
Very useful tool
Currently used in the area of technology and application development for use by the company and customers at the same time. Its usefulness in reporting is used for the presentation of current and historical business statistics.
It has also been used to update existing platforms and adapt them to responsive design of applications, and facilitate access from any device.
It is currently planned to use Kendo tools in future projects to follow the current development line.
- Responsive design
- Easy implementation
- Adapts easily to any development
- Documentation
- Examples
- Versatility
November 19, 2019
Works more quickly, efficiently getting the software to the business
We are using it in a few departments across the company. We created great components to use in Angular and ASP.NET MVC without us needing to create them ourselves. This allowed us to work more quickly and efficiently getting our software to the business. We experience great support by the Kendo UI team whenever we face any issues. It's a great commercial product. It's good that it is embracing open source.
- Adding controls with ASP.NET MVC
- Adding controls with AngularJS
- Highly configurable
- Open source
- Controls in ReactJS
- Some of the tools are expensive