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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…

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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 …
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Good UI framework

8 out of 10
June 30, 2022
We are using Progress Kendo UI with an angular UI framework. It is very easy to use and integrate in projects. We have developed different …
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Great UI toolkit

9 out of 10
March 26, 2021
We use Kendo UI as a critical component of our flagship product's web application UI. Multiple teams within Engineering leverage …
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Pricing

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Kendo UI with Priority Support

$999

On Premise
per developer, royalty-free

DevCraft UI

$1,299

On Premise
per developer, royalty-free

DevCraft Complete

$1,499

On Premise
per developer, royalty-free

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.telerik.com/purchase/kendo-ui

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

05 Using Parent-Child Views

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03 Using Custom Templates

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06 Working With Charts

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04 Working with Foreign Keys

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02 Building Editable Grids

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Product Details

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.

Progress Kendo UI Screenshots

Screenshot of Our extensive library provides you with the tools you need to easily control your app and display data in whatever format you need. Our advanced Sass Themebuilder lets you take any of our stock library themes and modify it to precisely match your brand requirements. Enhance your customer’s user experience with seamlessly integrated Kendo UI components.Screenshot of Easily create eye-catching and full-featured user interfaces by selecting from our rich library of components. Use advanced features like our grid component to create tables that display data in a wide range of formats from both local and remote sources.  We support popular frameworks like jQuery, Angular, React, Vue, and others so you can integrate our Kendo UI components into whatever environment you choose.Screenshot of Create rich dashboard applications by taking advantage of the breadth of UI widgets available within the Kendo UI toolset. Easily wire up the UI widgets to any existing RESTful API and backend to display any and all kind of data that you need to surface in your applications.Screenshot of Combine existing HTML elements and styling alongside with the Kendo UI components to create the exact kind of user interface that your users are requesting. The Kendo UI widgets can be dropped in to any existing application and be added widget-by-widget to ensure that adding the rich Kendo UI components can be done in a timely manner without disrupting existing app dev workflows.

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Progress Kendo UI Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, All
Mobile ApplicationKendo UI is a UI development framework for building mobile and web applications. Can be used on any operating system.
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesAll 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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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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Suzanne Luciano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Kendo UI for a wide variety of applications. My team uses it for a cloud based application which captures country-specific requirements. Kendo UI has allowed us to provide our users with a simple and clean user interface, which makes training users much easier, and has provided our analysts with effective tools to analyze the data we receive. The sorting and filtering that Kendo UI provides are excellent.
  • Filtering and sorting data.
  • Providing messages to the user.
Kendo UI is great for applications that require a form/interface that has a lot of data requirements. With Kendo UI it won't look cluttered which can overwhelm the individual entering the data.
Visala Nekkanti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
- Using Telerik controls for ASP.Net application - Using Kendo controls for MVC application - Upgraded the Telerik application with latest version - Most of the Telerik controls are used throughout the application This is used by our department.
  • Grid Filters.
  • Combobox out of box features.
  • One single DLL for all controls with latest version.
  • Kendo Treeview.
  • Upgrading to latest version is painful.
  • When releasing new versions, there should be backward compatibility.
Export to Excel, Grid Filters, and combobox features.
Rony Vargas M. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Kendo UI to develop an internal solution and an external [option] for our customer solution. We are integrating Kendo UI for our business software solution in RHH, retail business etc. All our solutions are using the Progress UI Tool Set for web applications and smart device apps. Kendo UI has a platform of different flavors of JavaScript: jQuery, react, NativeScript, Angular and Xamarin too.
  • With Kendo UI it's easy to build an Angular solution.
  • Kendo UI is easy to install.
  • With Kendo UI it's fast to build simple Android apps.
  • Kendo UI is easy to integrate with Microsoft IDE and others.
  • The Progress Tool Set easily integrates with Kendo UI.
  • Kendo UI can improve the Chart Controls with a more modern style like 3D or 2D models.
  • Kendo UI can improve integrating the Camera Controls Android an iOS, for example, to scan documents.
  • Kendo UI can improve working collaboratively with a design prototype together with stakeholders.
Kendo UI is well suited:
  • When you need fast results
  • When you need to minimize a CL (Curve of Learning)
  • When you need answers across a project if you have some problems or mistakes

Kendo UI is also well suited for companies that need to improve digital transformation with less cost and less time.
Diego Fonseca Marín | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo UI in our research and development department for new frontend solutions developed in Angular. There are many components that we use, for example, the grid, the calendar, the inputs, and charts. Our solutions are customer oriented and address analytical and transactional needs; our main business sector is banking, credit cards, and smart customer service assistance.
  • The technical customer service is really good; they attend to the questions in a short time.
  • The product updates are often and valuable.
  • The technical documentation and examples.
  • The price scheme results expensive for a growing company.
For us, Kendo UI is well suited for web applications like MVC transactional and non-transactional projects, and for new frontend consoles developed in Angular because there are many components that we can use to improve the user experience. But for mobile apps, we feel that the integration is a little hard and not as natural as we wish.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo UI across a broad range of product teams within the Americas business.

It's niche in our development stack is related to reusable components that dev teams can leverage to reduce development time and allow them to focus more time on business outcomes. We spend less time reinventing the wheel on each project with a standardized component library.
  • Consistent look, feel and quality across development UI components
  • A huge amount of components that can be leveraged in different ways for building applications
  • Continuous enhancement and product roadmap
  • Full customization of UI is sometimes difficult
  • Our design team occasionally resists "cookie cutter" components and wants to build something more unique and custom
  • Need more rapid and expansive SPA options
If you are building line of business applications for internal use, this is a no brainer as it allows a lot of time saving and cost reduction in the long run.

If your end use cases/scenarios require ultimate flexibility and custom ui experiences - you may want to avoid standard libraries such as Kendo UI. But that isn't necessarily a knock against Kendo - you'd have the same issue with any component library.
Brett Ward | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Speed of development is number one. Out of the box features and ease of implementation allow me to suggest functionality to clients that otherwise would not approve because of the time and money it would take to do a custom implementation. Most fancy/slick UI interactions or advanced data views on a grid, for example, Kendo offers straight out of the box.
  • Datagrids - viewing tabular data in pretty much anyway is easy.
  • Although sometimes hard to find, the documentation and support is key and very detailed.
  • Since they make a ton of different versions of the same control, a combobox for example. Made for a myriad of different different tech stacks/libraries, finding the documentation for the one you are using can be annoying.
Kendo is great for internal corporate applications that deal with lots of data. I probably wouldn't use it on a public facing application where data is not a huge part of the website.
Kyle Wormsbacher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used the Kendo UI framework in a number of applications and internal products. We have two back-end developers that use the product on a regular basis. Kendo has allowed up to add a bunch of really cool features without needing a bunch of different libraries.
  • Their documentations is one of if not the best in the industry.
  • They are always adding and improving features.
  • Customer support and community support is outstanding.
  • It's hard to find something that could improve on.
We have used Kendo in web-based applications as well as mobile applications... it's great anywhere you want to quickly add a feature-rich user experience without a ton of extra code.
September 06, 2018

Kendo UI Works

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Kendo UI in applications across the organization. Some applications are internal and others are external client facing. Kendo allows developers to quickly come up with solutions to address business needs as they arise.
  • Easy to customize the components
  • Documentation is readily available both by Kendo and the user community
  • Their office/reporting components fall short vs. their competitors (editor, spreadsheet and report designer for example).
We use Kendo in .Net web applications. We are considering using them in our Xamarin mobile applications as well. Kendo is not robust enough (yet) for reporting usage.
Mike Collison | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo UI in nearly all development in IT and the applications it's used in are used throughout the company. We use it for our time and attendance system, as a web front end for our vehicle tracking system, in our quality control application, and many more.
  • Aids in rapid development.
  • Produce amazing looking UIs that speed user workflow.
  • Continue to update the product with new features.
  • Listen to their user community about changes and additions.
  • I can honestly say that anything that I would put here would be nit-picking so I'm going to say I can't' think of any.
It's an amazing set of tools that create a beautiful and functional UI for our users as well as providing a solid platform for our developers to accomplish what's required.
Oberdan Nunes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I personally use Kendo UI as an important tool to help in productivity and quality of web applications.

  • Helps with building lightweight web applications
  • Helps with building web applications faster
  • Helps with creating beautiful and responsive applications
  • I don't have any issues or things they need to improve to list right now
Fantastic to create responsive, lightweight web applications, using inteligent and well made components.
Kyle Untersee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we have implemented KendoUI in a single department on a single product. The product is a web application with internal and external users. It has helped us solve the issue we had with providing an easy way for the end user to view, sort, filter large amounts of data in a single view.
  • Flexibility to customize components to meet business requirements
  • The support for the product is very robust - the documentation, coding examples and tech support department
  • Very broad component tool set
  • Backwards compatibility issues have been a problem in the past. This seems to be getting better with the more recent versions.
Building solutions to help display, organize, sort and filter large amounts of data.
Patrick Morris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use a variety of Telerik/Progress tools for our application development. This includes WPF and Kendo (jQuery/Angular).

I have found the WPF tools to be quite helpful and a massive time saver. The Angular tools seem to be very immature in comparison to the jQuery ones however what it there is very helpful.
  • Their Angular JS integration makes using their tools on the web quite easy.
  • Their comprehensive WPF tools and similar APIs for all components makes learning the tools quite easy.
  • Their support for many platforms and environments means the tools can be used in almost every situation.
  • It is sometimes difficult to find meaningful documentation for certain components. This means if you want to do something that they don't have a prebuilt example for then it make be difficult to figure out how.
  • Unless you file a support request they are sometimes slow to respond in the forums. Some response is frankly better than no response.
  • Sometimes the approved way of doing things is in contradiction to the approved way of the framework itself. For instance originally their WPF tools required non-standard ways to get them working correctly.
Overall Kendo/Progress tools are a definite time saver and give us a leg up on our application development. I have used them for many years and will continue to do so.

Other tools have similar features, in some cases, however, I believe Telerik is the best choice in terms of cost and overall usability.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kendo UI is being used by several departments across the organization. It helps speed up the development process for creating responsive applications. What we have enjoyed the most about the product is the quality user documentation, strong technical support and a large community. The templates that help emulate native feels in iOS and Android help create an app with a quality look and feel.
  • User interface and themes
  • Good online documentation
  • Strong user community to assist with questions and gain ideas from
  • At roughly $700/developer, price is a little high but may be justified with the support provided
The Kendo UI has helped standardize the presentation of our application portfolio. It allows a better transition for when we have team members join and leave projects during the build by providing this platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kendo UI is being used as our user interface between our customers and their data. Our development department uses it to design and create unique ways that our customers can see their data. One of the main challenges that we have is displaying data for our customers in ways that they want to see it. Kendo UI gives us the flexibility and control to display that data in a myriad of ways with all the various components that it provides.
  • The flexibility of components like the Grid is a great strength to display information in a meaningful way.
  • Their support department is very knowledgeable in any questions or concerns that we have. If we are having a problem they are quick to respond and give a solution.
  • The documentation and examples are a great resource initially learn all the features and come back to and supplement knowledge.
  • A lot of components build upon each other integrate with each other seamlessly. The downside to this though is that if there is a bug in one, for example a datasource, it could lead to the same problem in a different component.
  • Sometimes it's not immediately clear in the documentation when a new feature was added and what version supports that feature. If you're on an older version of the software, this can lead to a little confusion at first.
Kendo UI is well suited for user consumption of data. The flexibility of components like the grid really gives the power to the user in what they want to see and how they want to see it. For problems non-UI related, like backend work, Kendo UI (see the name) can probably be avoided.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo UI on our public facing websites for a smooth user experience. The grids work great for displaying customer orders and account information.
  • Easy front end implementation using the MVC controls in the views on the front end.
  • Simple to create MVC controllers on the backend which can easily provide a meaningful context of the incoming HTTP request.
  • Wide variety of tools available on the platform with good looking skins to choose from.
  • The .js files and .css files can be a little heavy on page load.
  • Customizing the CSS and icons on the skins can be changing.
I've used it successfully for implementations that are within a web page. Not sure if it is the best platform for building a Single Page App.
Joe Scarpetta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have some of its core components, mainly the calendar, integrated as the UI for our product, Jarvis CRM. We have used charts and the Gantt, as well as the editor to enhance our core solution that is delivered on the FileMaker® Platform.
  • The User Experience and the User Interface have been very thought out and are consistent across the product.
  • Writing code to connect to our FileMaker Database has been very easy to integrate.
  • Tech Support is great when presenting them a challenge you are facing. So far they have always had an answer.
  • I would like to see a way to build the calendar events screen in a simpler fashion.
  • Smaller code set especially like charts to make it easier to work offline.
Kendo UI was the best thing that ever happened to us. We found it while looking for a simple prebuilt calendar interface and it far exceeded our original requirements from day 1. Having a framework like Kendo makes it very easy to add additional components to our core product.
June 04, 2018

A+

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo UI for our backend software UI. One team is currently using it and has been for many years.
  • Solid Grids
  • Flexible CSS
  • Customizable coding
  • None. We are satisfied.
  • Very good for fast search results in grids.
  • Navigates well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kendo UI is used to design complex widgets that display data in a grid, chart formats. It provides a complex graphical user interface controls out of the box. For example, graphs, bar charts, grids and multi-level grid are the most common widgets used. It also provides some simpler cross-browser widgets out of the box so we can utilize theming.
  • The grid widgets are very fast.
  • The widgets are built well in the "angular way"
  • Their css is not responsive and you will have to do work to extend it.
It is great for complex GUI's such as those required by financial internal apps where grids, graphs and GUI's are required.
June 01, 2018

Handy module

Alireza Omidian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo UI for our ASP.NET MVC project. Just one team is using it. Kendo is accelerating the dev process.
  • KendoGRid is awesome and accelerates the dev process
  • Kendo Treeview is so handy
  • The Kendo tab strip is helping us to split the views
  • More API to access the data source element
  • The new versions should not affect CSS of the legacy version
  • Kendo Editor can be improved
I think with MVC you can use it easily and with client frameworks, it's not that easy.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kendo as components integrated in our software platform. We use it mainly for addressing front and UX issues
  • Reducing total development time and time to market
  • Provides UX components wich makes your development easier
  • Roadmap with Permanent Evolution
  • Issues with Responsiveness
  • Issues when you decide to upgrade the platform version
Well suited for business applications like sales or customer service.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are implementing Kendo UI for our main web products since we've been working with WebForm and implementing Kendo UI Ajax was the best option. Currently, it is being used only by the IT department. We needed to upgrade our applications in a way that would be cost-efficient and fast. Kendo UI help with that transition.
  • Fast and reliable. Kendo UI is a powerful tool that accelerates development time. It is widely tested and not difficult to implement on current projects.
  • Theming is really well provided by Kendo UI without being obtrusive with your own styles.
  • Telerik is focused on new businesses and they pull resources to develop new products and bring new features with Kendo UI.
  • We would like better Telerik reporting integration for Kendo UI, especially when client and back-end are in separate domains.
There is always a scenario where the development needs to go faster. With Kendo UI you don't only go faster but also better. The price is a bit high so I would only recommend in cases that development time is more appreciated than budget.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is part of the front-end of our commercial software product. Scheduling is an important part of our business, and the Kendo UI Scheduler helps us do that.
  • Scheduler is intuitive and the view scales easily across devices.
  • The Listview and charts are easy to program and looks great across devices.
  • Too much of Kendo UI is dependent on the developer customizing CSS to alter look & feel. More properties of many Kendo objects should be added.
  • A multiselect control that worked well across all devices would be a huge improvement. In iOS for example, scrolling or filtering a multiselect often causes the list to hide partially or entirely.
If the developer has good CSS and jQuery skills, and patience, the product is great, but it often takes too much time to make the product look like a clean mobile app (especially).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Noblis has a team that supports government acquisitions and provides a comprehensive web-based collaboration and documentation tool tailored to support any acquisition. Kendo UI helped us build the software to allow collaboration, track workflow and securely manage massive amounts of documentation while also allowing us to quickly develop new 'on-demand' solutions that typically arise from each individual acquisition process. Without Kendo UI, we would have had to spend countless hours creating our own tools or trying to patch together disparate components into a cohesive framework.
  • Like many developers, we rely heavily on grids to display data. One of the real strengths of Kendo UI is the grid component. It provides immense flexibility and allows us to quickly and easily provide almost any kind of requested data view.
  • Recently, Kendo UI has expanded from being strictly jQuery based to include an Angular, React or Vue based version. By embracing this, we now have more options for developing software and are better able to utilize developer skills. Did I mention these versions are all free with the Kendo UI pro license? Definitely, a great thing not to have to hassle with licensing.
  • Kendo UI has over 70 components with a rich API set. The documentation for all of this, from API properties and methods to component overviews to 'how to use' examples is a truly great resource. In addition, there are now 'Getting Started' videos for all flavors of Kendo UI. All of this has made bringing new developers into the mix fairly easy as they have a huge ecosystem from which to learn Kendo UI.
  • Kendo UI is always moving forward and staying current with latest development trends. While that is beneficial, that can cause some issues when supporting customers (particularly government) that don't move their IT infrastructure along nearly as fast. A prime example is web font icons. Great and easy to use, but where Kendo UI utilizes web font icons as the sole means of displaying an icon, not all organizations (again, especially government) allow the use of these. There have been times where Kendo UI became unusable and we had to downgrade to a version a few years old. Makes continued payment for licenses sometimes feel wasted as we may not be able to always use the new releases
  • Kendo UI has a wonderful feedback system and they do indeed listen to the community. However, there do seem to be some instances where there is large support for a new feature/component and it never gets addressed. It is easy to understand that not all ideas are easy or even prudent to implement, but would be nice to see a better follow-up on ideas with a current status
  • Refreshing Kendo UI grids is simple, yet the standard API method causes the grid to return to the default state. We have many use cases where we would love to update the grid data but need current grid state (such as expanded detail rows, sorts, filters, etc) preserved after the grid is updated so that users do not have to perform grid actions again to return to the desired state.
Kendo UI is well suited for grid-based applications. Additionally, dashboards, scheduling, and content management are also excellent applications where Kendo UI shines. You can even do online spreadsheets via a component. Where we struggle with Kendo UI is scenarios where users update data that is displayed in the grid, but we cannot always keep the current grid state intact once the grid update has been performed.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kendo UI is used by the R&D department to develop the platform for our ezasic project. We are trying to provide a UI for our website widgets and Kendo UI is used for the same.
  • Easy to use
  • Very customizable
  • Lots of different types of widgets
  • Good documentation
  • Hard to implement custom features
  • Some inconsistencies in the API
KendoUI is great if you want a fairly mature API set to generate web components on your website or webapp. It has a large set of built in widgets which are easy to use and fairly well documented.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Kendo UI to deliver a rich web-based responsive custom software package for several clients. Have used Kendo with jQuery for a number of years and am pleased with the library, features, and compatibility the product offers. Telerik/Progress is constantly updating and expanding the product to address features and issues requested and found by the community. Training and support are excellent and the user community is very active and helpful.
  • Kendo is often being updated with new features which makes it easy to stay on top of emerging technology.
  • jQuery is fully supported in Kendo - it is easy to drop in Kendo widgets and access elements of the widgets through jQuery
  • Great Training, Support, and User Community involvement. Lots of great resources to use when learning and implementing the product.
  • In the past, we have had issues where updates to Kendo break existing code. This has become less common in the last few years with the power of Progress helping out Telerik.
  • Have had some occasions with high memory usage with Kendo, but Telerik is addressing these issues.
  • The product is not fully open-sourced. They have a base (core) version available on Github, but developers will need to purchase a full license for all features and enhanced support.
Any web-based responsive project would benefit from dropping in Kendo UI widgets for a quick, functional, and attractive enhancement.
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