Progress Software today announced the latest Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI release, helping to accelerate UI development with context-aware AI while advancing a new generation of applications designed for both human and AI agent interaction. By embedding AI deeply into UI generation, application modernization and development workflows, the release enables teams to move beyond traditional software development cycles to AI-assisted coding, delivering production-ready, agent-driven software.
This release introduces a comprehensive set of AI-driven capabilities from embedding accessibility and intelligent UI generation into the design process to enabling smarter debugging with proactive insights, agent-based document processing and seamless AI interaction with application interfaces.
"Engineering leaders need to both enable their teams to use AI to scale their productivity and to increase their production of agentic applications," said Loren Jarrett, EVP and GM, Digital Experience, Progress Software. "This release enables engineering teams to meet those needs by extending developer productivity and providing pioneering UI tools to build AI-embedded applications compatible with both human and agent interactions."
New capabilities include:
Comply with Accessibility Standards without Manual Work: Leverage Progress Agentic UI Generator to embed component-level accessibility directly into UI creation, delivering contextual guidance that reduces compliance risk and advances inclusive experiences.
Pinpoint Problems Faster with In-IDE Debugging: Enable smarter debugging with Progress Fiddler Agent Skills by giving coding assistants direct visibility into network traffic, including ability to proactively alert developers of problems and suggested solutions.
Enable Agents to Interact with Documents: Extract structured data, analyze Excel files, convert formats and generate documents within existing applications without external AI services, using agent tools in Telerik Document Processing Libraries.
Pioneer Agent-Ready UI with WebMCP: Enable AI agents to interact directly with application interfaces through WebMCP, eliminating fragile screen-scraping techniques and creating more reliable agent-driven experiences.
Modernize WinForms Apps: Accelerate legacy app transformation with automated conversion to Telerik UI for WinForms using intelligent control mapping, code parsing and MCP-based automation.
Add Agentic RAG Capabilities: Connect to Progress RAG-as-a-Service to use LLMs to analyze and converse with unstructured enterprise data, documents and other information.
Build UI for AI at Market Speed: Build intuitive experiences with Smart Paste, PromptBox and SmartBox, while benefiting from new components, broader framework support, faster CLI onboarding and integrated AI chat in documentation.
About Progress Software
Progress Software provides the context and control organizations need to reliably extract value from AI - context drawn from an organization's data, content and workflows, and control over security, governance and cost of AI initiatives.
