Conversational UI components for Telerik and Kendo UI enable .NET and
JavaScript developers to create modern chatbot experiences using the
framework of their choice
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2018--
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and
deployment technologies, today announced the addition of conversational
UI components for Telerik and Kendo UI, the industry’s first packaged
set of user interface (UI) components built specifically for chatbots.
The components, offered as part of the popular Progress® Telerik® and
Progress® Kendo UI® developer tooling, enable .NET and JavaScript
developers to create enhanced natural conversational experiences across
platforms and devices, on any chatbot framework – including Microsoft
Azure Bot Service, Facebook Wit.ai, Google DialogFlow, Amazon Lex, and
more.
Chatbots are a critical capability for enabling low-cost anytime
interactions with customers. However, building a chatbot is time
consuming, and delivering one that offers an effective natural customer
interaction is a challenge. Organizations are looking for a better way
to enable high quality chatbots in their apps. The conversational UI
components for Telerik and Kendo UI are a set of UI controls that enable
.NET and JavaScript developers to create modern chatbot apps on their
framework of choice that improve the natural flow of chat-based
conversation using packaged visual elements.
The conversational UI functionality is available in more than a dozen Telerik
and Kendo
UI toolsets. As is standard across Progress’ UI tools, the
components are easy to implement using existing development skills and
with the technologies that developers prefer. Through the conversational
UI components, developers can implement key UI design features such as
calendars and date pickers that allow the developer to better control
the direction of the conversation.
“Microsoft is giving every developer the tools to be an AI developer,
and we work with companies like Progress to empower the community with
services and components that help make this a reality,” said Beth Massi,
Senior Product Marketing Manager, .NET Platform at Microsoft Corp.
“Tools like conversational UI help our .NET community build more
visually appealing, easy-to-use chatbots that will improve the overall
customer experience and increase adoption and usage of AI technology.”
New conversational UI capabilities include:
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Framework-Agnostic: compatible with all major chatbot frameworks
including Microsoft Azure Bot Service, Facebook Wit.ai, Google
DialogFlow, Amazon Lex, and more.
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Consistent Design Experience: giving chatbots the same look and feel
as any other web, desktop, or mobile applications, leveraging
highly-customizable components.
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Natural Conversation Flow: a visually appealing experience that
enables and enhances the natural conversation flow between chatbot and
users.
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Easy Implementation: use existing .NET and/or JavaScript skills to
easily implement the components in any web, desktop or mobile chatbot
application.
“Our expertise lies in our ability to deliver the best technology for
building and deploying the applications of tomorrow. The release of the
conversational UI components for Telerik and Kendo UI is another example
of that commitment to innovation,” said Faris Sweis, SVP & General
Manager Developer Tooling, Progress. “We are the first to market with a
packaged set of components that enhances the capabilities of popular
chatbot frameworks and are working with companies such as Microsoft,
Amazon and Google to put the tools in the hands of our developers that
will ensure their success in our ever-evolving technology world.”
For developers that want to build their own chat experiences on
frameworks offered by Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, Progress’
newly announced conversational UI components for Telerik and Kendo UI
make it easy to build an engaging chat experience. For organizations
looking for an out-of-the-box chatbot solution for transactional
customer service use cases, Progress offers Progress®
NativeChat™, an AI-based chatbot solution that can be trained and
deployed in weeks.
Conversational UI components for Telerik and Kendo UI will be available
on May 16. To view a demo today, visit the Progress booth (#53) at
Microsoft BUILD. For more information, go to www.telerik.com/conversational-ui
or join our R2 2018 Telerik Release webinar on Wednesday, May 30 at
11:30 am ET.
For more information on Progress NativeChat see https://www.progress.com/nativechat.
Additional Resources
About Progress
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying
strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to
deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the
effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily
building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or
touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive
capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a
serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content
management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700
independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two
million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn
about Progress at www.progress.com or
+1-800-477-6473.
Progress, Telerik, Kendo UI, and NativeChat are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation and/or one of its
subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other
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