Novalys, the company behind Visual Expert
A privately held software vendor, founded in 1998 and based near Paris. We build tools for the business-critical applications organizations depend on, with a long-standing focus on PowerBuilder, Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server T-SQL.
- 1998founded
- 50+countries where our products are used
- 25%of revenue invested in R&D
What we work on
Many organizations still run core business processes on applications built over many years in PowerBuilder, PL/SQL or T-SQL. These applications keep changing, now also with code written by AI assistants, and every change has to be verified before it reaches production.
Visual Expert is how we address that need.
Verify
Find vulnerabilities, bugs, quality and performance problems, and potentially dead code, with systematic, repeatable analysis.
Remediate
Review and prioritize findings, assess their impact, assign work, and confirm resolution with the next analysis.
Document
Share code, dependencies, data usage and application knowledge with continuously updated documentation.
Visual Expert for PowerBuilderOracle PL/SQLSQL Server T-SQL
25%
Research & development
Each release extends what teams can verify
Novalys invests 25% of its annual revenue in research and development, and a new version of Visual Expert has been released every year since 2015. In recent releases, this work has brought major capabilities to the product.
- 2018
SQL Server
T-SQL code analysis joins PowerBuilder and Oracle PL/SQL.
- 2019
Performance analysis
Find the slow pieces of Oracle and SQL Server code. Diagrams generated from the code.
- 2021
Code Inspection
Detect security vulnerabilities, bugs and maintainability issues in PowerBuilder, Oracle and SQL Server code.
- 2023
PowerBuilder performance
Execution traces consolidated to find the slowest code and the most executed objects.
- 2025
Visual Expert Web
Code exploration, inspection and documentation in the browser. Jenkins plugin for continuous inspection.
- 2026
Defect & task management
Findings tracked across analyses, assigned as tasks, and confirmed as resolved by the next analysis.
Earlier versions: Visual Expert 5, 6 and 7. Full release history
AI accelerates development. Verification must keep pace.
Our view
AI tools can generate, explain and modify code faster than ever. We see this as a reason to strengthen verification, not to skip it: the time saved writing code can easily be lost reviewing it, fixing errors and validating changes.
We keep verification separate from code generation. Visual Expert inspects code with the same rules and scope across successive versions, and combines dependencies, data usage and runtime evidence to show what a change affects and whether a fix worked.
Why Visual Expert in the AI eraPartners
- Appeon
- Exclusive reseller for France. Reseller for Belgium, Luxembourg and Portugal.
- SAP
- Novalys resells SAP products.
- Microsoft
- Novalys is a Microsoft partner.
- Zeenyx
- Novalys resells AscentialTest, developed by Zeenyx.
- Enable Development
- Products and services for PowerBuilder, including Enable for PowerBuilder for application localization.
- NCS
- Official PowerBuilder distributor in Japan.
Customers
Using VE's features allows a much quicker turnaround, reduces expenses and frees up resources for more productive work.
Hundreds of large organizations in banking, finance, insurance, government, industry, media, software, telecom and transportation.
Headquarters
41/43, rue Paul Bert92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
France
Other products we offer
- Visual GuardIdentity and access management for business applications.
- Ultimate Suite for PowerBuilderUI controls to modernize PowerBuilder applications.
- AscentialTestAutomated and manual testing.
Talk to our team about your PowerBuilder, Oracle or SQL Server application.