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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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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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January 30, 2023
Using Kendo UI with ASP.NET
In my daily work I use Kendo UI for jQuery in the software development department. I write custom Kendo UI plugins that integrate components from different products. With its wide range of components, Kendo UI for jQuery is very useful to reduce development time.
- Reduce development time
- Easiliy create custom (e.g. composite) plugins
- Easiliy write Kendo UI plugins
- Numerous widgets out of the box.
- Responsive components
- Theamable components
- Highly customizeable components
- No query builder widget available.
- No timezone calendar. Timezone should be adjustable.
- Grid: Timezone should be adjustable
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
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 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
November 13, 2020
Kendo UI is life saver for developers
We used kendo UI in our product called as Superload. It is a web application which is used in US for issuing permits for vehicles. In this application we have used kendo UI through out the application as a standard for UI. Kendo UI is used in our department for web products.
We have used various kendo controls as grid for CRUD operations, Masked Text box for Zip codes, Cascaded drop downs etc.
We have used various kendo controls as grid for CRUD operations, Masked Text box for Zip codes, Cascaded drop downs etc.
- Performance of Kendo controls is good. It is very easy to use ajax calls with kendo UI controls.
- If we do Restore nuget packages without setting nuget package folder path then it mess up everything and needs to spent ample time on it to fix it.
- It's quite difficult to find cons in Kendo UI. As it fits very good in all our scenarios.
- In 2020 version of kendo we fond lots of changes in CSS class which made breaking changes in UI. means most of the css classes are broken down in smaller ones. that time we faced more issue than earlier upgrade.
November 11, 2020
Good for UX and developers
We are using Progress Kendo UI controls in our Angular framework on the front end. Progress 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.
- Kendo Grid for presenting a timeline. At first, the Kendo Grid was a bit light on features, but it has grown over the years and is quite full featured.
- Kendo Scheduler for presenting the upcoming calendar events.
- Kendo Treeview is used to present a hierarchy of topics that our users can navigate through easily.
- Kendo keeps adding features and works with newer frameworks. They never stop being relevant.
- 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.
- Database binding examples--more examples please.
- Certain UI components have not been updated in a while or are more difficult to customize.
November 09, 2020
Progress Kendo UI consistently meets our needs
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We have been using Progress Kendo UI for our web application suites for 6+ years now. It's been a great experience with new controls added and meeting almost all our needs in our application. The journey started with POC and needed to be done fast. We happened to fall on Progress Kendo UI and haven't thought of anything else after that. The POC worked out quite well and that effort continued to evolve as a full fledged product which is in its fifth year now.
- Extensive range of controls
- Proper usage guide with running demos that help fast implementation
- Proper timely support when needed
- Provide details about upgrades and what controls are affected in an easily accessible way
November 09, 2020
Enterprise-grade UI components
We use Progress Kendo UI in the vast majority of the pages of our primary product line. It has allowed us to produce a professional and flexible UI without getting bogged down in writing our own components and all the complexity that would entail.
- Vast variety of UI widgets
- Flexibility in how we use/implement them
- None!
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.
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
Kendo UI React in an industrial on premise web application
We use Kendo UI components within our industrial product's web interface. It is a part of our core product and is used by all customers. Consequently, it is important that it performs well and is bug free. We migrated to Kendo after updating our technology stack to React and needing a new control library as a result.
- Large component library
- Written natively in React
- Great documentation
- Support system is not very good. We had a few issues with our components which we traced back to flaws in the product.
- Performance of the grid component could have been a bit better.
- Style and customization is doable, but not the easiest.
October 14, 2020
KendoUI is unmatched in all areas
We build websites and software for internal uses as well as for our clients. Kendo UI saves us from having to reinvent the wheel on simple things like grid also while providing us unmatched features and support.
- Kendo UI enhances the everyday common controls like grids. Grids have been around for some time now but the Kendo UI team continues to make the grid even better with things like Export functionality, nested views, frozen columns etc..
- The documentation of Kendo UI is a hidden area that it does very well at. While the control suite is amazing with out solid documentation users would be unable to use the it effectively. The documentation not only covers the basic settings, setup, and api references, they also have reword example of how to do special customizing like hiding sections or changing colors, etc...
- The Kendo UI team does very well on testing before each release to minimize issue for its users.
- I would like to see KendoUI try to adopt to new standards quicker. I know they are trying to be platform agnostic but with things like Microsoft making a DateTimeOffset the new default db type the KendUI controls that handle Dates & Times need to support this. As of right now it still isnt fully support. I think using a library like momentJs can help. I mean KendoUI already uses 3rd Party library for the Grid Export for things like PDF.
- KendoUI team does some cool things on their website and we would like to see some of those things make it into KendoUI. Like their Menu doesnt seem to be the same menu provided in KendoUI.
October 14, 2020
Kendo UI helps to reduce development time
We develop an Online Facility Management System und use mainly Teleriks ASP.NET Controls but also Kendo UI for some of the more complex WebViews. We have one developer developing the Web Portal and some others developping Mobile Apps.
- Kendo UI has a good styling system. So it can be easily adapted to the style of the website
- Kendo UI has a perfect documentation and good support
- Kendo UI is easy to learn
- Kendo UI plays well with HTML5 single page scenarios
- Virtualisation for all controls not only for GridView
- Integration of Controls e.g. Combo Box with TreeList [order] GridView
We produce a data-intensive web application for companies in the wholesale apparel industry. Our web products require high-performance UI components, including grids, drop-down lists, and charting controls. We selected Kendo UI as our supplier because it is an industry leader in this area and I have had a favorable experience with their products in the past. By using their products, we are able to shorten our development time and improve the quality and capability of our commercial offerings.
- The Kendo UI controls are flexible and configurable and can be adapted easily to multiple development frameworks.
- The Kendo UI controls are reliable and have proven to perform consistently and well in our production environment for years.
- The vendor provides excellent online documentation and support.
- The vendor makes an outstanding effort to keep current with the latest web technologies.
- The Kendo UI controls could provide more hooks for easily modifying style and appearance since we typically have a need to change the look and appearance for our application context.
- More sample code and tutorials would be greatly appreciated, particularly for Angular 2+.
- Better migration guides and release notes for new versions. Upgrading applications that are in place is always problematic. We would like to know what problems we might encounter in advance.