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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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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 15, 2022
Improvement in Kendo Dynamic LINQ
We have angular app for our .net core backend application. we have used Progress/Kendo-ui version 2021.2.616. Our need for clinet-ui is responsive UI and dynamic controls with great UI feel. Our application is based on dental web application so we need to use tooth charts and many other controls to display data to users.
- kendo-panelbar
- kendo-calendar
- kendo-grid
- Kendo Dynamic LINQ
September 27, 2021
Perfect integration with Vue
A few months ago I was looking for user interface alternatives for the applications we have yet to develop and I found Kendo UI. I immediately tried it for 30 days and it convinced me by having a simple interface, in addition to good documentation. Currently, I am using it in my organization and if everything goes well then we can implement it in other projects.
- It has a good redesign of the components we cannot find in other UI. I have even noticed a lot of improvement in the file upload component. Particularly, it has been very easy to make it work.
- It works perfectly with Vue. I have had no problems adding components.
- The ThemeBuilder is the best. You can customize the theme of the application without touching a single line of code. The results in examples are shown in real-time.
- They should improve the documentation on certain components, not all of them have well-detailed help.
September 17, 2021
Progress Kendo UI - The best complete toolkit for development
Progress Kendo UI is a bundle of JavaScript UI toolkit that is used to build high-performance and quick web-based applications and sites with help of any kind of framework. Because it is integrated with all kinds of frameworks like JavaQuery, Angular, React. We use the Kendo UI controls in numerous production programs and we're thrilled with their ease of implementation, reliability, and performance.
- Especially the Grid control provides us lot of simplified controls
- The various environment and frameworks support
- Easy to develop and integrate with third party application
- Well documented for easy to understand
- Need some real time example codes. Demo codes are really simple
- We need to focus more on improvements. Because the upgraded versions have more bugs compared to the older versions
September 15, 2021
Excellent UI Toolkit for smarter & professional UI look for web apps
Progress Kendo UI is widely used across projects as it has an extensible framework. It is really very easy to use and integrate. It has a rich set of UI controls that gives a professional look to the websites. Kendo UI toolkit has powerful UI capabilities and it can be used with Angular js, React js and other UI frameworks.
- Better development of User Interface
- Increases performance of applications
- Integration with lot of UI frameworks like Angular, React
- Powerful customization capabilities
- There is still much space for further customization
- It should be more generic and should have easier documentation
We use Kendo UI in our customer-facing applications, which serve about 400 users. We have yet to implement Kendo UI in any of our internal applications, we currently use data tables, but moving forward, we intend to use Kendo UI for most GUI-related requirements that we may run into.
- Showing data in a table/grid.
- Drag and drop functionality.
- Accessing remote data to widgets.
- Better error handling messages.
- Examples for edge cases.
September 08, 2021
Fast Web Development with Kendo UI
I have used Kendo UI with React.js for an Australia-based client. We have developed different components of the UI like data grids. It has helped me to improve the functionality of the UI for the end-users and save time for the development.
- Easy to setup and use
- Good documentation for different integrations and APIs
- Support for popular front end development frameworks like Angular and React
- Good video tutorials are available for the team to understand the design framework
- Easy to implement complex data grid requirements on the website
- Integrating custom built code snippets is complex
- Upgrades are time consuming
- Support team needs to have more knowledge about micro functionalities and their implementation
Kendo UI is primarily used by the Development Team at Latham to fast-track user interface development.
- Configurability in style and feature.
- Different ways to connect the component to data sources.
- A Support team that is fairly responsive to user inquiries, including specific usage scenario.
- More centralized resource for practical/real-world implementation examples.
- Performance issues with certain components when handling a large record set.
April 26, 2021
Create Professional Web Sites Easily
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Progress Kendo UI is currently being used in my department only at this time. It has been used to redesign a chemistry application and an inspection question and answer site.
- It does well with complex grid requirements.
- Will make your site look highly professional with its editor controls.
- It's easy to implement the Kendo UI on a web project.
- There is a little learning curve on using some of the controls.
November 27, 2020
Progress Kendo UI indeed a lifesaver for UI development.
Well, I have used Kendo UI in 2 web apps. First one is supeload and another is OpenPlant. For Supeload we migrated from Asp.Net controls to Kendo UI which made our work much easier. And then OpenPlant we directly used Kendo with angular.
- Components such as charts tables are of great help when it comes to software development.
- Documentation is good so it saves time and effort.
- It offers support for multiple JavaScript frameworks.
- Though, documentation is good . It still needs to cover all the scenarios.
- Upgrades are not easy since there is no proper communication regarding this.
November 16, 2020
Using Kendo UI with Angular
- It is used by some departments.
- We are using it to create different components in our web application.
- Our project has lots of dialogs and forms, so mostly we are using Kendo grids, charts, navigation, server side data call, server side filtering and different form elements like text input, data picker, combo box, buttons etc. It is a great tool which makes development easier and faster.
- Fast Kendo Grid
- Supports all form components
- Good integration with Angular
- Server side data support
- Server side filtering support
- Documentation has very simple use case examples of components
October 23, 2020
Best cost/benefit balance
We have been using Kendo UI in order to improve our user experience and our development effort. Kendo UI is one of our tools that makes a great improvement in our processes.
Kendo UI is a powerful component library that allow us to focus on business logic instead of UI programming.
Kendo UI is a powerful component library that allow us to focus on business logic instead of UI programming.
- Performance is great and the components are lightweight.
- The design is customizable with CSS is as easy as applying templates.
- Price is so good.
- Documentation should include a link for common user's requirements, not only their examples.
October 21, 2020
Superb UI with great support from vendor
It is used by my department and used in the applications that we develop internally. It solve time-to-market (internally) by useful UI components, saving my time. Also it is used to uplift the face for some legacy applications, that helps end user to be more comfortable using the applications that they use.
- Superb variety of UI components
- Easy to use
- Reduce time to market
- Support
- Compatibility with another components
- 3rd party implementation companies
October 21, 2020
Kendo UI is a robust performer, the web never looked better
8 years ago, I chose Kendo UI to rewrite a Flash based web-application so that the application could be used on mobile and desktop devices and be supported long term. This web-application is our company's sole web view product. Kendo UI is the closest thing to a complete web-view development package for building rich user-interface applications. Our organization is small, and we use Kendo as our primary web view development tool.
- Rich charting components allow developers to easily bind web-service data to bar charts, line graphs, and multiple axis charts.
- Reusable component features such as Export to Excel, Save To PDF provide out-of-the box export ability.
- Great documentation, examples, large developer community. Online examples and documentation make it easy to identify how each component works, the different options for invoking components, and in-page manipulation using the Kendo Dojo (http://dojo.telerik.com/).
- Wizard and Forms widget are an excellent addition, long overdue, and now make Kendo an even better package
- Advanced data grid that includes editing, grouping, search, responsive rendering, filtering, column hiding, etc.
- Datagrid editing using combo boxes sourced from independent datasources is allowed and is a very common use case, but isn't as easy to configure as text box editing, or fixed option editing. Since the pattern for dynamic combo box editing is quite routine, this appears to be something that could be integrated better into the grid.
- I have recently begun using the tree view component and there appears to be room for improvement with document the number of potential structures of data that can be used. Since the options for using the tree view are varied, I would like to see more examples. I personally ran into issues where field names in the JSON payload ( such as "level") caused problems rendering the tree.
October 21, 2020
The most trusted applications development add-on suite!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Kendo UI is the choice UI suite for both the IT department as well as other units that develop line of business applications for accounting, hazardous waste management, compliance training, and research compliance. We are primarily using the ASP .NET MVC suite of wrappers which provide highly functional implementations for our variety of user interfaces. Among those, we have used the Kendo Grid, Kendo Scheduler, Kendo Dropdown list the most, and we are writing some custom JavaScript on top to assist with functionality that might not be available right out of the box.
- Kendo Grid for presenting a timeline of research grants as they are being approved. Our users love the ability to export the data to various mime formats.
- Kendo Scheduler for presenting the upcoming calendar events in the available conference rooms in a building. This is used together with a 3rd party vendor API for appointment booking.
- Kendo Treeview is used to present a hierarchy of topics that our users can navigate through easily.
- Still some accessibility issues in some of the controls, we have to occasionally modify the markup to get past our accessibility requirements.
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
Vetted Review
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
Vetted Review
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.