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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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Excellent UI Toolkit for smarter & professional UI look for web apps
Progress Kendo UI is best for all UI developments
Kendo UI is a great tool not just for developers, but for the end users as well
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Toolkit to craft effective and featured web-based user interfaces
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Kendo UI - Focus on custom development and let Kendo take care of the rest
Progress Kendo UI indeed a lifesaver for UI development.
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Kendo UI with Priority Support
$999
DevCraft UI
$1,299
DevCraft Complete
$1,499
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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05 Using Parent-Child Views
03 Using Custom Templates
06 Working With Charts
04 Working with Foreign Keys
02 Building Editable Grids
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Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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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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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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(101-125 of 177)Kendo UI provides excellent user experience
- Filtering and sorting data.
- Providing messages to the user.
Telerik Upgradation and Kendo UI
- 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.
100% Javascript Experience and easy to Use
- 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.
- 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.
Good components and easy implementation
- 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.
Saves time, money and makes me look good.
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 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.
Do you want work smarter and faster? Use Kendo.
- 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.
Amazing products and support.
- 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.
Kendo UI Works
- 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).
Kendo UI - A fantastic Solution!
- 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.
Best components for developing lightweight, responsive and beautiful 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
Handles large data sets with ease
- 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.
Great set of tools to quick develop useful applications.
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.
Other tools have similar features, in some cases, however, I believe Telerik is the best choice in terms of cost and overall usability.
Easy way to create great themes for responsive websites!
- 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 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.
Accelerate Development with Kendo UI
- 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.
Kendo UI - Amazing Framework.
- 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.
A+
- Solid Grids
- Flexible CSS
- Customizable coding
- None. We are satisfied.
- Very good for fast search results in grids.
- Navigates well.
Kendo UI helps you build complex GUI quickly
- 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.
Handy module
- 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
- 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
Our experience with kendo UI so far
- 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.
The Scheduler is great!
- 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.
Kendo UI Helps Us Work Easier
- 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.
A powerful web component library
- Easy to use
- Very customizable
- Lots of different types of widgets
- Good documentation
- Hard to implement custom features
- Some inconsistencies in the API
- 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.