AI SOFTWARE BUILDS USER-FRIENDLY WEB APP WITH KENDO UI IN UNDER 12 WEEKS Project Description One of AI Software’s clients develops and implements collaboration tools for large corporates in U.S., enabling users to exchange messages with corporate networks securely. Its Chat Tool enables users to exchange messages in various formats customized using HTML and XML, to deliver additional information and messages can be more intelligent than just text. The client wanted to redesign and develop an HTML5 and SingalR-based Chat Tool Client as a modern web application supporting cross platform browsers. The application backend was developed using .Net and SQL. Business Situation A chat application needs to be fast and users need to receive the messages as soon as possible from the server. For a web-based chat application to achieve performance of a windows or native application is impossible with older technologies such as polling or AJAX. Furthermore, the application requires adaptive rendering and similar message delivery performance on mobile devices connected via 3G or 4G networks. The client wanted to build the application with modern look, The application opens as a dashboard with all chat rooms adaptive rendering and fast performance while not losing appearing as tiles. Users can expand the chat rooms within the the existing features of drag and drop, rich text editing, grids, dashboard as a new window, or open them as new tabs. The windows and tabs. The ChatTool also displayed a tag-cloud Chat Tool’s administration module uses the SignalR binding based on keywords from the users’ chat messages. with the grid control to add users, configure teams, configure authorization using identity providers, and maintain various other Solution meta data information for each corporate and their rooms. AI Software selected Telerik Kendo UI® HTML5 controls to use “It would not be possible to support multiple cross with SignalR because the server can initiate the communication platform browsers without using a solid library like and deliver messages to client. SignalR avoids the need of Kendo UI. The intuitiveness of Telerik programming polling the server every few seconds which adversely affects the saves a great deal of effort on the developer’s side.” network bandwidth. Piyush Bhatt, CEO at AI Software AI Software’s team built an HTML5 modern web application with all the user-friendly features of Rich Text Editor, drag-and-drop, tag-cloud, in-browser popup windows, grids and other userinteractive controls. All features have been built with the help of Bootstrap, Kendo UI suite and custom jQuery plug-ins. Verdict Results Because of Kendo UI controls’ data binding support and • Ability to render app on tablet and other mobile devices demo examples with SignalR, it was quite fast and easy to • Enabled greater appeal to customers build the application. It took about 12 weeks to prototype the UI • Customers can use the application while away from their then deliver a working application. When problems arose, the desks or in a meeting room team found answers in the Kendo UI and StackOverflow forums. This is a product, not yet available in the public domain but implemented at some Fortune 500 corporates internally. “It would not be possible to support multiple cross platform browsers without using a solid library like Kendo UI,” said Piyush Bhatt, CEO at AI Software. “The intuitiveness of Telerik programming saves a great deal of effort on the developer’s side.” Learn More Visit Website www.aisoftwarellc.com p ? sk De ob to ile Win dow Desktop Tablet iOS iles Ph one Mob M S Tyable iO err roid kB And lac B t M id ro ob ile And Desktop Global Developer Survey 2013 The HTML5 vs. Native Debate Java Developers and HTML5 About Telerik Telerik empowers its customers to create compelling app experiences across any screen. Our end-to-end platform uniquely combines industry-leading UI tools with cloud services to simplify the entire app development lifecycle. Telerik tools and services can be adopted individually or as a platform and seamlessly integrated with other popular developer solutions. More than 130,000 customers from 60,000 organizations in 94 countries depend on Telerik products, including more than 450 of the Fortune 500®, academic institutions, governments and non-profits. For additional information about Telerik, please visit telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter. © 2015 Telerik AD. All rights reserved. This case study is for informational purposes only. Telerik UI for ASP. NET AJAX is either a registered trademark or trademark of Telerik AD in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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