Many organizations continue to run business-critical systems on PowerBuilder. While these applications remain stable, their security architecture often reflects practices from earlier development periods.

Today, applications must meet stronger security expectations and, in many industries, formal compliance requirements. This creates a recurring question for teams maintaining existing systems:

The Annual PowerBuilder Conference Elevate 2025 took place online on 1–2 December 2025.

In this event, Christophe Dufourmantelle, CEO of Novalys, demonstrated how Visual Expert AI helps developers understand legacy code, analyze changes, and improve the overall quality of PowerBuilder, Oracle, and SQL Server applications. 

The session focused on three practical AI use cases and showed how AI supports, not replaces, developer decisions.

Studies show developers spend 42% of their time understanding existing code instead of building new features. For PowerBuilder, Oracle PL/SQL, and SQL Server teams, this problem is getting worse as legacy codebases grow more complex.

Visual Expert AI changes this. The platform is now in beta, offering AI-powered code analysis that actually understands what your code does—not just what it contains.

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Integrating Visual Expert with Toad for Oracle creates a powerful synergy that significantly enhances your ability to maintain and optimize Oracle PL/SQL code.

The right tools are crucial for streamlining code maintenance and enhancing code quality. Visual Expert, the essential tool for code analysis and documentation, has launched its innovative web version - Visual Expert (VE Web).

As databases grow larger and SQL Server code becomes increasingly complex, performance optimization can quickly turn into a time-consuming challenge. Many tools, including SQL Server itself, can analyze performance, but achieving optimal results requires deeper insight.