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.”
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