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Novalys Software is an international software vendor founded in 1998, primarily serving enterprise application development teams, with a particular focus on PowerBuilder and the surrounding database/enterprise systems ecosystem. The main products shown on its website include Visual Expert, Visual Guard, Ultimate Suite for PowerBuilder, Enable for PowerBuilder, Developer Maintenance Suite, Reporting Data Suite, AscentialTest, as well as the PB Open migration program and PowerBuilder Assistance expert support.
From a developer tooling perspective, Novalys is not focused on general-purpose IDEs, but on the maintenance and evolution of large legacy applications. Visual Expert targets PowerBuilder, Oracle, SQL Server code and databases, offering code exploration, impact analysis, knowledge management, and documentation generation—useful for teams taking over complex legacy systems. Visual Guard is an application security framework covering user management, authentication, application-level access control, auditing, and compliance reporting. Ultimate Suite and Enable address PB application UI modernization and multilingual localization respectively, with an emphasis on minimizing code changes. The PB Open Program further provides a methodology and services for migrating PB business logic to C#/.NET Core Web APIs and rewriting Web, mobile, or desktop UIs.
The official website does not publish specific pricing. Some products offer trials, quote requests, or sales contact options; the PowerBuilder Assistance Plan is explicitly described as a fixed annual fee based on the number of authorized contacts. Open-source status is not disclosed, and the overall positioning appears closer to commercial closed-source software plus consulting delivery. Self-hosting and deployment details are also limited; the available information only indicates that Visual Guard can be used for production security deployments, ADFS/Web SSO configuration, and other internal enterprise integration scenarios.
The main strengths are Novalys’s deep understanding of the PowerBuilder ecosystem, its product coverage across maintenance, permissions, security, testing, localization, and migration, and its consulting, training, ticket, phone, and web meeting support. Its customer base spans finance, government, industrial, telecom, and other sectors, suggesting a focus on larger organizations. The drawbacks are that the website reads more like sales material, with limited transparency around pricing, public API/SDK details, version compatibility matrices, and developer documentation depth; it also has limited value for teams outside PowerBuilder or cloud-native environments.
It is best suited to enterprise teams still maintaining PowerBuilder/Oracle/SQL Server legacy systems and needing impact analysis, permission redesign, UI refreshes, or phased migration to .NET/Web APIs. There is no evidence in the source material regarding access from China, so it is currently unknown; payment methods are also not disclosed and likely need to be confirmed through the sales process. Alternatives should be considered by use case: SonarQube/CAST for code analysis, Keycloak/Okta/Auth0 for IAM, TestComplete/Ranorex/Selenium for testing, and the Appeon ecosystem for PB migration and deployment.
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