Overall Satisfaction with Progress Kendo UI
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.
- The more I use it, the better. I am applying this kind of solution for different business areas with success and the productivity has been increasing.
- I am applying it on ASP MVC development, basically, but there is a plenty of features would be easy to apply in different platforms (which turns the ROI even better).
The price/features available (development platforms available, controls available for ASP MVC development, etc.) seemed to be a better choice.
Do you think Progress Kendo UI delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Progress Kendo UI's feature set?
Yes
Did Progress Kendo UI live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Progress Kendo UI go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Progress Kendo UI again?
Yes
Using Progress Kendo UI
1 - Software development.
1 - For ASP MVC / DotNet Core MVC development: HTML, C#, and Javascript knowledge are required.
- Manufacturing Planning and Monitoring
- Long time execution tasks monitoring (optimization tasks, services execution)
- Web Interface for IoT solutions
- Mobile development
Evaluating Progress Kendo UI and Competitors
- Price
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
The examples showing the software power were very important, as well as the sales team support before the first acquisition. There were some important questions addressed in this pre-buying phase which contributed to the final decision.
Perhaps using the trial version more intensively, if possible.
Progress Kendo UI Implementation
- Implemented in-house
- Lack of sample code provided
- Lack of experience
Progress Kendo UI Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved No escalation required Quick Initial Response | Difficult to get immediate help |
Yes - Sometimes the bug presented will be corrected in the next release or patch, but regularly a workaround is proposed by the support team.
There was a bug introduced in an upgrade release which was freezing the application server. This issue had already been detected by the support team and a patch had already been available for download. That was an "intense" situation addressed quickly by the support team.
Using Progress Kendo UI
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Well integrated Consistent | Requires technical support Slow to learn Lots to learn |
- Grids
- Reports
- Dashboards
- Almost everything, in fact
- To get code samples for an extensive list of objects' properties and methods.
Yes, but I don't use it