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Progress Telerik Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 10 out of 10
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10 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

Telerik Rad Ajax controls have been widely used by users to rapidly develop applications and enhance them with a consistent user experience. By leveraging these controls, users have been able to deliver features quickly and efficiently, saving time and effort in the development process. The UI ASP.Net AJAX controls provided by Telerik have proven to be invaluable in creating screens and dashboards with a consistent look and feel, accelerating development time and enabling the addition of new features without extensive code work. Another notable use case for Telerik UI controls is their ability to replace Excel spreadsheets and associated graphics in internal line of business applications, providing users with an improved experience and requiring minimal customization. Users have also found the demos from Telerik to be excellent references for learning how to implement various functionalities, although some have mentioned difficulties in finding specific information outside of the demo examples on the documentation site. Overall, Telerik UI controls have greatly improved the UI experience for end-users while speeding up the development process with pre-built components and extensions.

Reviews

44 Reviews

These components have saved so much time!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Progress Telerik control libraries to save time and simplify development of ASP.NET MVC and Blazor applications, and we're moving into using the MAUI pieces as well. Some controls feel like overkill, since the packages include things like textboxes - which DO have some minor extra features, but not enough to switch them out in my opinion. But it also includes advanced ones such as image editors, popovers, cards, skeletons, graphs and so much more that save tons of time when we develop any kind of LOB application.

Pros

  • Saves time
  • Scalable
  • Great advanced components and features
  • Easy reusability
  • Great support
  • Recurring and frequent updates

Cons

  • The written documentation could be better
  • Requires some slightly invasive changes when integrating

Likelihood to Recommend

As soon as you need more than the most basic of features in your application, chances are that Progress Telerik has you covered. Personally, we've used graphing and list components frequently, and reporting and input components more often than not. It can be a bit difficult to combine the layout of the Progress Telerik components with your existing, non Progress Telerik controls, but it's definitively doable.

Excellent Feature Set, Productivity increase in UI development

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Telerik UI ASP.Net AJAX controls on our intranet web-application software deployed to various automotive customers. The controls helped accelerate the creation of screens and dashboards with a consistent user experience. Further, the controls added features and functions without requiring boiler-plate code to be added (such as the Grid control providing filtering, sorting, and paging right out of the box without any additional code work). Other controls (such as the Tree Drop Down), provide great user experience with little to no additional customization required to get the web control to behave / present in the fashion we need. Finally, the demos from Telerik provide excellent references for determining how to do things. The only draw back is on the documentation side, where if you step out of the demo examples, it can be difficult to find the information you need on the document site, and determine what and why you need to something special. Overall, I would emphatically recommend the use of Telerik UI controls to vastly improve the UI experience for your end-users, and accelerate the development time involved in creating the User Interface screens.

Pros

  • Great Demos
  • Excellent out of the box features built right into the controls
  • Fast development time to go from nothing to fully functional UI
  • Accelerated cross-platform development (responsive web design)
  • Well moderated forums for getting questions answered
  • Steller support - questions are answered in a timely fashion and usually get right to the solution.

Cons

  • The documentation site (not the demo site) sometimes leaves something to be desired, particularly if you are stepping out of the 90% usage scenarios.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have used the Telerik UI controls for our Admin user experience. We found that this lead to consistent user experience, with feature rich functions already provided. Effectively this meant that hour for hour, using the Telerik UI improved productivity in creating screens with more functions than using the default controls in ASP.Net. At this point most of our focus with the Telerik controls is User Interface oriented.

Powerful software that is easy to use

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Telerik UI to develop Web Based applications using MVC. The use of the software components is extremely easy and very powerful. The presentation of the data using the Grids/Graphs/Reports is the biggest selling point in showing our customers the software that was developed using the Telerik controls.

Pros

  • Grid Data
  • Graphs
  • Reports

Cons

  • Documentation is very poor.
  • Need more code examples.
  • The Carousel Control needs some vast improvements.

Likelihood to Recommend

The use of the Telerik Data Grid to be able to data-mine is a very powerful tool. To be able to quickly sort, group, filter, and export data that is presented in the grid has been one of the major selling points we use in selling our software is that is was designed using the Telerik Data Grid.

Vetted Review
Progress Telerik
15 years of experience

Progress Telerik UI's Blazor library is a life saver!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Progress Telerik UI, specifically for Blazor in multiple applications throughout our company for both internal and external customers. The pre-built components are used for several areas of visualizing data and data manipulation.

Pros

  • Prebuilt Blazor Components
  • Helpful demos and documentation
  • Reporting software

Cons

  • Custom functionality within the components
  • Less breaking changes between versions
  • Updated documentation regarding devops pipeline implementation

Likelihood to Recommend

TileLayout is a quick way to setup customized dashboards for users Forms can inherit objects without having to spend a lot of time building out inputs. Charts are extremely easy to implement and broken up to help simplify customization. The CSS file is extremely large and needs to be slimmed down and simplified to allow multiple elements to use single a css class instead of multiple elements using multiple classes.

Telerik UI for Blazor is extremely helpful

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We specifically use it for Blazor UI Components, across multiple projects in order to cut development time down.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Easy to Duplicate

Cons

  • Styling is messy and over complicated
  • Updates can break existing components used in your code

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great in business/internal applications where design and styling are less important. It's not as ideal in highly developed and designed environments where the app is customer-facing.

Vetted Review
Progress Telerik
2 years of experience

Most complete UI suite out there.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Progress Telerik UI for many of our commercial applications as well as custom-built applications. I like the completeness of the suite as I rarely have to go outside of the suite for UI components. We use Winforms, WPF, Xamarin, MVC and ASP/WebForms. Because we drift between the many platforms and webforms, I like that there is a familiar feel when switching between something like a web app and a desktop app when dealing with a grid for instance. I like the Progress Telerik UI control panel to manage versions that I have installed on various platforms.

Pros

  • Regular updates. I know I can expect updates that contain not only bug fixes but additional features. The quarterly updates are at the right interval and can be built into a management plan.
  • Examples. The supplied examples are incredibly useful, and often provide ideas on how to approach a UI design. I often pull up the examples and use them to show the team when we are spitballing ideas on a UI design.
  • I find license management to be simple to use and manage. I like the discounts for early renewal.

Cons

  • I'd like to see the radwebcam include the ability to read/decode barcodes or QR codes and possibly raise a barcode read event.
  • The visual studio add-in takes a while to load, so I constantly get the slow add-in warning from visual studio 2022
  • some of the winform controls seem to have poor performance such as carousel.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for web apps that need rich UIs that can utilize modern browsers Well suited for thick desktop apps with moderately powerful PCs. Well suited for presenting great dashboards, and the rad grid is second to none. Great for creating HMIs. Not so well suited for old browsers or on low-powered windows pc running thick apps. Such as a windows based tablet. Tablets running windows

Telerik UI reduces time and effort to build modern cutting edge UI

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Telerik UI in our enterprise software solutions built on top of WPF and ASP.NET MVC. It reduces our time building user interface from scratch by our own so we decided to use cutting edge Telerik UI to fast track our development and delivery process. Using Telerik user interface it does not need more expertise rather your current resources can take care of the migration from native to Telerik UI.

Pros

  • It reduces lot of time building modern UI
  • It has rick library of UI controls, Grids, and Charts to use in enterprise applications
  • Rich reporting tools

Cons

  • User support should be improved
  • More Demo applications with code should be available hasselfree
  • There should be a community edition

Likelihood to Recommend

It suits in enterprise software applications to reduces time building user interface from scratch and rather using cutting edge Telerik UI to fast track the development and delivery process. It has feature rick reporting tools which is most attractive in term of if you have lots of reporting in your application. Small companies may find it difficult to use due to its cost.

Vetted Review
Progress Telerik
7 years of experience

Good UI Components BUT bad experience with PDF generator

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have worked extensively with Telerik's React, Blazor, MVC, WebForms and PDF Document Processing controls for a variety of applications.

Pros

  • Great support
  • Good quality UI components
  • Great UI control performance

Cons

  • Poor PDF library: generated files were MASSIVE in size. We switched to Syncfusion because of this issue.
  • Poor user experience with their date picker components (too many clicks to choose a year in the past)
  • Documentation could be more complete
  • Telerik launches iOS components and then dropped them

Likelihood to Recommend

If all you need are good-quality UI components, then Telerik is an excellent choice. Great performance. Excellent support. If you need to work with PDF files, be very careful: the Document Processing for PDF is very immature compared to offerings from other major vendors. Many limitations with digital signatures. Also: documents you generate will have MASSIVE file sizes that your users will complain about. Our organization is in the process of replacing Telerik with Syncfusion controls because they also have excellent UI components but have a stronger PDF offering (our generated PDFs with Syncfusion are between 10~50kB whereas with Telerik they are 500kB~7.5MB).

Vetted Review
Progress Telerik
5 years of experience

Progress Telerik UI = fast UI development

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Progress Telerik UI allows developer to quickly create elegant and consistent user interfaces

Pros

  • Large selection of UI widgets
  • Easy to Update

Cons

  • not much to say, it just works

Likelihood to Recommend

Progress Telerik UI is best suited if you are staring an application from scratch

Easy and quick UI development of Dot Net apps with Progress Telerik UI

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Progress Telerik UI to build aesthetic and modern user interfaces for Dot Net based web and desktop applications. It has enabled us to fasten the process for UI design and development with the help of pre-built components and extensions. It is embedded easily with Dot Net based applications and allows for a ton of customizations in the UI as per the requirement of the client.

Pros

  • Good support from Telerik team on the issues faced
  • Excellent Grid control options
  • Multiple customizations for each UI component
  • Excellent pre-built examples to meet and fulfill the design requirements

Cons

  • Each control has multiple attributes. It becomes difficult to understand the functionality. If the team could provide some tooltip or documentation, it will help the engineers.
  • Setting up nested grids is somewhat complex

Likelihood to Recommend

Progress Telerik UI is one of the best web design and development solutions for Dot Net based applications. It has extensible support for ASP.NET Core, C#, WCF, and ASP.NET WebForms. It overall improves the design structure for the applications and provides multiple customization options to meet the requirements of clients and end-users.