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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 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 |
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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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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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September 21, 2017
Kendo UI
Kendo UI is used to visualise data as charts, mainly pie charts on dashboards. The Grid control is also used on many pages for display of tabular data. The Grids paging and sorting features produce very user friendly pages very rapidly.
- The Kendo UI controls are solid components, by that, I mean they do not have many bugs or defects.
- In most cases the Kendo UI controls are easy to use.
- The code to create a control is fairly easy to follow once written.
- The documentation is very poor, it is very poorly indexed, and has huge pages with many examples of how to set a property to an integer value. This looks as though the documentation has been machine generated.
- The documentation lacks a good set of working examples for most of the controls.
- There are no 3D charts.
September 21, 2017
Long term customer....still happy
Kendo UI is being used across several applications I've developed for different companies over the years. It's the only component framework that I use and has been my go to framework for quite a few years now. The Grid component is what I use the most, followed by Scheduler and Editor. Other components like Date Picker etc I take for granted as the largest impact for customers is seeing their data in the Grid component, especially the detail breakdown, being able to easily search using the filters helps them tremendously. Another plus is synchronizing events from Google/Microsoft Calendars within the Scheduler component. Simple custom reports, emails etc etc can be built with the Editor control and there's never been a time where I've had to look at another library for what I need. I have no hesitation in renewing my license every year.
- Grid
- Scheduler
- Editor
- Core components like Date, DateTime pickers, Numerical input box, multiselect etc. It's all there.
- Themes....I always show the client the different themes when I start the project so they can choose their preferred colour scheme.
- Scheduler bindings for Google/Microsoft account Calendars
- Editor...more table functionality like border styling, bold etc.
September 21, 2017
Kendo UI to display insights data
As a data insights company we use Kendo UI in our web portal to allow users to easily view analyzed data in many different forms using charts, grids and different menu options so they can tailor the reports to their needs in an easily fashionable manner.
- Easy to set up and customize charts to the different needs.
- The documentation provides a lot of examples on how to use it and demonstrating the various options available.
- The export feature (image, ppt, pdf) could be improved to allow more customization. We use it in every report we have and it is hard when you need to export various reports (or e.g. multiple tabs) to the same file.
- Kendo diagram could have more options as well and more examples on how to use it. Last time I used it to create a Venn diagram it was quite a lot of hours spent to make it look good and function as desired.
September 21, 2017
From zero knowhow to a working app in 1 month
We used Kendo UI to develop hybrid mobile applications. The apps were developed for customers in the manufacturing industry (vacuum furnaces) for marketing purposes. The apps are for a very strict niche, the last one, for example, is used by heat treaters to calculate the best receipt for making steel tools.
- Fast to learn
- Easy to use
- Large compatibility
- Add samples of hybrid mobile apps
- Transition effects are applied only on first viewv load, it would be great to apply them also on every view change (after first loading)
- More information on mobile application which changes its theme depending on the device
September 20, 2017
Kendo UI rocks for our small business and development team.
We use Kendo UI heavily on both our web and in-house desktop project. In our data-driven industry, we rely heavily on the data containers the Kendo UI suite offers.
- Grids
- Support
- Charts
- Gauges
- Better documentation of where properties are as they are sometimes buried under a few layers of objects
September 19, 2017
Kendo UI - an excellent product
As a self employed developer I use Kendo UI to build web applications, particularly Single Page Apps. I needed the best Scheduler control I could find that worked with the Aurelia framework and Kendo UI was the best choice by far.
- The controls are reliable and powerful. I am always able to achieve what I set out to achieve.
- I needed to extensively customise the popup "Add Event" form for the scheduler control and found that it supported all the changes I needed.
- I like that I can customise the appearance with themes .
- I like having the choice of using same controls either in an MVC app (with MVC helpers) or in a SPA using Javascript.
- An area that could use more documentation is the different ways of connection to the server. There are lots of options but finding documentation on this takes perseverance.
- Probably the weakest area I found was patchy support for Typescript. Interfaces and classes for Typescript are available, and they do work nicely, however I have run into a number of methods that are available in Javascript but not in Typescript. So far it has been possible to solve this by editing the Typescript source file to add the missing methods or properties.
- I use Kendo UI with Aurelia which means the use of the Aurelia-Kendo UI bridge which is a third party product. Ideally I'd like the Kendo UI team to support Aurelia directly.
September 19, 2017
Kendo UI is the only UI/UX library we use!
We use Kendo UI for data management and user experience for multiple digital products that we maintain on behalf of our clients. It handles data visualization/charting and data management for our clients in the mortgage industry and government services.
- Kendo UI consumes and provides templated layouts for JSON data provided by an internal API. It allows us to focus on development without worrying as much about presentation.
- Kendo UI's date picker is miles above other framework plugins and easy to use and integrate.
- Kendo UI allows us to customize a workflow and handle client-side validation to improve overall user experience.
- The Masked Input needs some improvement for mobile browser compatibility.
- Documentation could be improved for clarity. Sometimes it's hard to determine exactly how to implement something because the documentation is sparse or a naming convention doesn't make sense.
September 12, 2017
Kendo UI Review
Kendo UI is being used for our software development. Kendo UI makes it quick to make new features in our software.
- Ease of use
- Speed of development
- Good documentation
- Support for react components
- More components
September 12, 2017
Kendo UI - Great front-end suite of controls
We develop products for resale that include web-based UIs. Kendo UI is used in the UIs and dashboards to provide attractive, responsive, and performant controls.
- Charts - create interactive charts that can render as SVG or Canvas
- Templating is built in and can be used in most controls to affect the final output
- Drawing API along with the VISUAL property of most chart elements lets the user customize charts easily
- Rendered SVG chart elements should have assignable classes or ids, etc. so they can be easily selected and manipulated outside of the kendo UI code (e.g. with D3).
September 12, 2017
Kendo - best toolset for web
We use it to develop an internal and external line of business applications. Anything from a simple contact form to a full system or integration to existing or extension of current systems.
- Charting and graphs
- Grid management
- Validation
- Used with other frameworks
September 12, 2017
Just Kendo It!
We use Kendo UI to implement the browser based UI of our messaging product named Kuro. Kuro is a fully featured middleware product capable of high volume message exchange using the EbXml (V2) specification.
The UI provides Kuro administrators with the ability to configure all aspects of Kuro. This includes the creation and configuration of embedded HTTP servers and their associated security profiles. Its dashboards also provide administrators with real time feedback of the state of Kuro components and allows the embedded trading engines and HTTP servers to be started and stopped.
The UI also provides a full message search facility to allow administrators to quickly find messages that need to be resent or which need further investigation.
The UI provides Kuro administrators with the ability to configure all aspects of Kuro. This includes the creation and configuration of embedded HTTP servers and their associated security profiles. Its dashboards also provide administrators with real time feedback of the state of Kuro components and allows the embedded trading engines and HTTP servers to be started and stopped.
The UI also provides a full message search facility to allow administrators to quickly find messages that need to be resent or which need further investigation.
- With our previous knowledge of JQuery we were able to quickly implement a full featured UI using the various components provided by Kendo UI. We make heavy use of the Grid component and the various form components. It is very easy to set up a grid which is bound to a remote RESTful datasource.
- Kendo integrates really well with build tools such as Webpack. This allows us to create a modular project and maintain both development and production builds.
- Kendo UI makes it easy to integrate other frameworks into your project. For example, we use Kendo's data binding facility to bind remote data onto Bootstrap widgets. It's great that you are not forced to only use the components provided by Kendo.
- Online documentation is detailed with some good examples.
- Support is decent both via the forums and via ticketing system.
- The Kendo Grid currently allows fixed columns to be created on the left side only. I'd really like this functionality on the right side as well. For some use cases, eg grid row buttons, it makes more sense.
- Perhaps some better starter documentation for things like webpack integration. It can be a bit trial and error while you're getting up to speed with it.
- Addition of some modern layout managers would be welcome. Getting the UI to look right and resize correctly can be a bit of a pain sometimes.
September 12, 2017
Kendo UI Review
It's used across the entire organisation. 3 of our 4 developers use Kendo UI. We use it in all our web based projects.
- We like the variety of components provided
- Most of the time the components work as expected
- Up to this point, the help system, the support system and the periodic releases/bug-fixes have been sufficient to take care of the problems we've faced
- The help system needs a bit of a revamp. Some of the content there no longer applies to current versions.
September 11, 2017
Kendo UI - stop searching StackOverflow, all components are here
Kendo UI is used by developers to implement features for our in-house CRM system.
We are using it for hybrid desktop/mobile applications, for data visualization and we are planning to implement pivot tables to provide our users with a simple way to access reporting in a BI-like way.
Kendo UI really simplifies the development process, as we don't have to develop widgets in-house.
We are using it for hybrid desktop/mobile applications, for data visualization and we are planning to implement pivot tables to provide our users with a simple way to access reporting in a BI-like way.
Kendo UI really simplifies the development process, as we don't have to develop widgets in-house.
- Kendo UI provides really nice sets of widgets.
- We appreciate the ease of the integration and support for both legacy jQuery applications and modern AngularJS based ones.
- Chart component could use more detailed configuration. We are looking for a way to provide our users with detailed charts with visualizations of their investment portfolio. We are missing features which would allow to specify how many data points are considered for each pixel of the rendered graph.
September 08, 2017
If you’re thinking long term in the development of your product choose Kendo UI - it will be always designed for the future.
We have one product where we use the interface. It was important to us to speed up development and have good support if a problem occurs. So these two important factors are covered. It also provides for the kind of standards we are using for development.
- Quality of component, Telerik prefers not to give fancy functionality, they always take care that everything works
- Support - always good suggestions and solutions and always on time
- Easy development - by using similar API and good demos
- Speed up with the angular version, we are in training to rewrite our product to angular and waiting for the final angular version
September 08, 2017
Why KendoUI?
At urbanit, we build tailor made web solutions for our customers. Kendo UI has helped us to create easy to use applications, both for web and mobile, with unique design and user friendly approach. As developer, I find KendoUI is easy to adopt, small learning curve and an almost complete feature set.
- Kendo UI Grid
- Kendo UI Angular
- Kendo DataViz
- KendoUI Mobile
- Kendo UI Editor
September 08, 2017
Kendo is the best value product out there
Across the organization. It helps us create various analyses using charts. We use it for navigation, spreadsheet entering, and basically all other parts of the product as well.
- Great framework for building out charts
- Great grid capabilities
- Great spreadsheeting capabilities
- More integrated documentation (sometimes info is in API docs sometimes in other places)
- Better error messages
- Better starter tutorials
September 06, 2017
Kendo Review
We are using if for all web development in our company. We have decided that it is our standard tool for web application. Our main case is an application that it is used in our whole process (from buying goods to dispatching final product) and this tool is being deployed in facilities around the globe. Other minor applications are being developed or were developed in last 2-3 years, all using Kendo UI.
- One of the best things are the Grids and all its flexibility
- Support is great!
- Using Kendo UI with MVVM is awesome!
- Kendo UI styles (look and feel) are great!
- Documentation lacks details for a lot of widgets
- Some widgets are not too flexible
- Demos/examples usually are too simple and you don't have day-by-day usage examples
September 06, 2017
Great for Rich Web-Based Desktop Clients
Kendo UI is used by our software development team to enable rich controls in our own web-based products. They develop faster and have nice looking controls with a very good usability. The supplied themes and the theme builder are an added plus for us.
- All controls are of a piece with same look & feel and user experience.
- Documentation and support are quite good.
- Many controls available which are rare like graphs and Gantt.
- A very powerful grid with completely customizable data sources.
- Requires jQuery as dependency.
- New components sometimes lack features you are used to from other controls.
September 05, 2017
Speedy Kendo UI
We currently use Kendo UI in several core applications in our organization. There are some LOB applications and also some client facing applications making great use of it, being that we have also extended some aspects of it for our own needs.
- The grids are awesome. Power and flexibility are key.
- The Kendo MVVM framework is a killer. It works really well with kendo widgets, but also with "common" HTML elements.
- The support. The support is truly legendary.
- It could be more flexible in the way it allows for UI customization. Integrating it with custom designs or layouts tends to be a bit a of a pain.
- There could be more options for keyboard navigation on the grids, for more flexibility.
- The date/time pickers should allow for a input mask from the factory, so one could use it to allow users to make correct inputs easily.
September 01, 2017
Kendo Review
We use it for prototyping and for small integration applications to allow viewing and editing of simple datasets.
- Fast development of simple applications
- Rich component set, easy to style and skin
- Self contained
- Easy to deploy
- Documentation needs improvement
- Examples are often too simple
- "Data" manipulation looks old style if compared for example with angular
August 31, 2017
Just getting started, happy thus far.
We have used AJAX RadControls on our company website (Web Forms) for a number of years. I am currently in the process of rewriting our site for MVC and am incorporating Kendo UI to help with custom inputs (such as date pickers) and intend to also use it for its spreadsheet capabilities (such as being able to copy and paste to/from Excel).
- It is easy to install and integrate into a project.
- It fits cleanly into existing frameworks, using existing syntax - I can type @Html.Kendo().DatePickerFor(m => m.DateAdded) to input a date picker control.
- I cannot put the Kendo UI script tag at the bottom of the page (which is suggested to improve load times).
- After an AJAX post, DatePickers recreate the k-calendar-container element. So I had to build a "cleanKendo" function that runs after every post to prevent the DOM from being filled with superfluous elements.
August 31, 2017
Kendo & SharePoint do mix
Widgets are used within Microsoft SharePoint, as a replacement to InfoPath forms. Used across entire organization to display dynamic forms using the SharePoint REST API.
- KendoSpreadsheet provides Excel look to web pages.
- KendoGrid provides a way to display views more dynamically than SharePoint OOTB.
- Other widgets make for a better responsive web page within SharePoint.
- Kendo Charting API makes web page pop with visual information.
- Some widgets require additional DOM manipulation to get the look & feel desired.
August 31, 2017
Kendo UI - the only control toolkit you will need!
We are currently using Kendo UI in a new product that we aim to use internally as well as to offer to our client base.
- Breadth of controls available - we haven't had to look at any other control library since we started using Kendo UI.
- Every control has an array of features - at present we have not had to make use of the extensibilty/source code option (another great benefit) as each control has come with all the features we have needed up to now.
- Speed of development - the ability to easily use code snippets from Telerik's documentation and then make the finer changes has save countless hours.
- Support is fantastic - we have used them a couple of times when we have been unable to work out a resolution using the documentation or figured it out ourselves. The response are always straight to the point, clear and comprehensive and in most cases they provide working examples.
- Documentation isn't always as clear as it could be. Don't get me wrong it is most probably one of the best out there in terms of content available but I think it could just be a little cleaner link to and from the different sections.
Kendo UI was used to built different mobile apps. More or less all components used were based on KendoUI. As we are small software company all developers used same framework across all apps that we developed. The target was to be productive as soon as possible and we achieved that with KendoUI. Learning curve was fast and quality of components but also our products was on high level. Thanks to Progress team :)
- Easy integration
- Fast development with well designed components
- Easy to learn what is needed to be fast productive
- Frequent and good component updates
- There are a lot of components but additional ones will not hurt
- Additional sample apps will be also good to have
- Well there are not a lot of things missing so nothing else to add...
August 31, 2017
Cost-Effective Approach to Using Kendo UI
Our organization uses Kendo UI in the subscription product line of our flagship products. Kendo UI allows us to render a nicer UI at a low-cost level. The online tutorials and documentation are getting better as the product has matured, though it would be lice to see a library of step-by-step tutorials, as well as, additional how-to videos in the Pluralsight library.
- The Kendo UI Components demo page gives a lot of great examples that make it easy to get started.
- Once you FIND the Getting Started page on the web getting up to speed becomes easier.
- For developers, as long as you have admin rights to your machine, the ability to update Kendo UI is EXTREMELY easy. Its built into the installation and you get notified when updates are available.
- Progress needs to create an educational dashboard for developers. They need a single page where developers can see a list of step-by-step tutorials, videos, links to documentation and demos for each of their products.
- While Kendo UI is an awesome product, headaches start rolling in when the business users decide to change colors and tweak the CSS. Kendo is very-cost-effective until you need to change it to fit the look of your UI.
- The wide array of products in the Progress line can be overwhelming and its not always easy to figure out which UI product you really should use.