Enterprise software leader Progress Software announced the latest release of Progress® Telerik® and Progress® Kendo UI®, introducing context-aware AI capabilities designed to streamline UI engineering and support agent-driven software architectures. The updated suite enables software engineering teams to transition from standard AI-assisted coding toward building production-ready applications that support interactions from both human users and autonomous AI agents.
By embedding artificial intelligence directly into user interface generation, application modernization paths, and developer workflows, the release accelerates application lifecycles and simplifies accessibility compliance. The platform equips developers to modernize legacy systems, automate network debugging, and integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks into enterprise applications.
“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.”
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Key AI-Driven Features and Developer Tooling
The latest release introduces several core enhancements aimed at expanding developer productivity, upgrading legacy desktop applications, and facilitating agentic data interaction:
Automated Accessibility Compliance: Utilizes the Progress® Agentic UI Generator to embed accessibility standards directly during component creation, providing contextual guidance that mitigates compliance risks.
In-IDE Network Debugging: Leverages Progress® Fiddler® Agent Skills to grant coding assistants direct visibility into network traffic, allowing tools to surface proactive alerts and code recommendations.
Native Document Processing for AI Agents: Enables software agents to extract structured data, process spreadsheet files, and perform format conversions directly within Telerik® Document Processing Libraries (DPL) without external API dependencies.
WebMCP for Agentic UI Interaction: Employs WebMCP protocols to allow AI agents to navigate and interact directly with application interfaces, replacing fragile screen-scraping techniques with structured controls.
WinForms Desktop Modernization: Streamlines legacy migration efforts by automatically mapping controls and parsing code to update WinForms applications to modern Progress® Telerik® UI standards.
Agentic RAG Integration for .NET: Connects applications to Progress® RAG-as-a-Service, enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to query and analyze unstructured enterprise data.
Accelerated UI Design Components: Features specialized UI components—such as Smart Paste, PromptBox, and SmartBox—alongside expanded framework support and CLI onboarding tools.
Accelerating Enterprise Software Modernization
The updated suite provides engineering organizations with a unified framework to build modern, accessible, and AI-ready user experiences. By bridging traditional software architecture with agentic capabilities, Progress enables software development teams to scale output, reduce technical debt, and meet modern enterprise compliance standards.