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 Maintenance Solutions
Impact analysis
Application knowledge management
Code review
Source code documentation
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 Access Control for PowerBuilder and .NET Applications
Role based access control
User authentication
Membership management
Roles and permissions management
...learn more about Visual Guard
Visual Guard
 Customization Studio
Customization Studio lets end users customize the application themselves. They can re-arrange screens, customize reports, translate texts, etc… No development skill is required.

The development team don’t invest time or effort on personalization: Customization Studio is a ready-to-use solution that makes any PowerBuilder application customizable in hours. There is no need to distribute or disclose the source code: end users customize an executable copy of the application!
...learn more about PBProtect
 Multilingual Applications
End-user work in their preferred language
Deploy in several languages simultaneously
Reduce time to market and cost of
localizing applications
...learn more about Enable
 PowerBuilder Code Protection
Protect your source code from decompilers
Defend your intellectual property
Prevent alterations to your applications
...learn more about PBProtect
 Other Products

Appeon for PowerBuilder

Runtime Explorer
PowerLIB
 
   
 


bullet for PowerBuilder
bullet for PL/SQL
bullet for Transact-SQL
bullet for Visual Basic

 
Impact Analysis
When you modify the source code of the application, there is always a risk of regression and errors due to the modifications.
By a click Visual Expert helps you to perform those impact analyses on any component (userobject, datawindow...) of the application.

Source code documentation
To write a technical documentation is always long and tedious!
With Visual Expert, generate a complete, customized and always up-to-date technical documentation in minutes.
For example if you need to perform some knowledge transfer about part of an application, you can choose to generate technical documentation only based on Window objects & UserObjects.

Browse through your application
Visual Expert makes it easier to navigate, no matter how complex the application is.
Visual Expert helps you gain time in the development and maintenance of your application and facilitates the integration of new developers.
Visual Expert allows you to :
  - Discover the application structure and its components (pbl, userobject, window, datawindow, menu,...)
  - Explore the inheritance tree and master the framework, (Looking for ancestors, attributes of a window...)
  - See a preview of any application window in order to visualize its aspect and test it,
  - etc...

Improving Source Code
Projects need to follow development rules in order to :
  - Normalize the code
  - Simplify its reading
  - Anticipate maintenance

Visual Expert will help you during the 3 following phases:
  - Before the development, Visual Expert helps to define the development rules
    (you can use the default ones)
  - During the development, Visual Expert helps to apply the rules and to correct errors,
  - After the development, Visual Expert can search in the whole application
    for unused components and those that do not comply with the rules.

Detecting dead code
Visual Expert detects code in your application.
Dead code includes functions, properties, parameters or variables that are never referenced.
Removing this dead code will improve the performance of your application and the source code will be easier to maintain.

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Visual Expert for PowerBuilder
Visual Expert for Oracle
Visual Expert for SQL Server
Visual Expert for Sybase ASE

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Visual Guard
Visual Guard

bullet for PowerBuilder
bullet .NET
 
 

Add security features to your Projects

bullet Manage users, memberships and roles. Your project is adjusted to the permissions, hiding controls, filtering data, disabling update capabilities…
bullet Manage user authentication. You can use Active Directory or Database accounts to verify users identify. You can also create your own users.
bullet Define which users have access to which projects. Grant Permissions and roles to users.
bullet Secure any ASP.NET, CSharp, VB.NET or PowerBuilder application.


Visual Guard is composed of:

bullet A security Repository to store security data (users, roles and permissions).
bullet An Administration Console to manage users, roles and permissions.
bullet Visual Guard Engine: a component integrated in your Project. It manages user authentication and adjust the project to the user permission.
bullet Visual Guard Membership Provider: you can manage user and roles from your own project calling Visual Guard Membership API.

Visual Guard website
See a demo of VG for .NET
See a demo of VG for PowerBuilder
Request a trial version for .NET
Request a trial version for PowerBuilder
 
     
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is a tool used by PowerBuilder developers to make their applications multilingual

Using Enable, developers can usually upgrade a simple, monolingual PowerBuilder program with just a few changes to the original code. Excluding translation time, your software can become ready for distribution, with its own multilingual database (.ena) and the royalty-free Enable engine (various .dll and .pbd files), in a matter of hours!

Adding new languages or altering translated text is easy. Just update the multilingual database: no further changes are needed to the source or executable codes.

Enable provides a comprehensive solution for the localization of PowerBuilder applications, covering all properties of all controls, as well as every type and style of DataWindow and MessageBox. This means that even the most complex software can be localised: nested tabfolders, parametric messages and calculated fields? No problem!

Reports can be translated and printed in several languages simultaneously, even without changing the user interface.

Learn more about Enable
See a rolling demo!
Request a trial version

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 PowerBuilder Code Protection


PBProtect
The first obfuscator for PowerBuilder

PBProtect provides code protection through generation of an alternate source code for your application. The resulting source code is 100% equivalent to your original source code and has no impact on execution time or maintenance. PBProtect is a fully-automated obfuscator. Once you've entered your options, the program goes to work.

Makes your code unreadable

PBProtect takes the code that is already written and renders it more complex to understand.
It removes variable and public names, removes comments, and adds extra spaces.

No one will be able to exploit your code

Learn more about PBProtect
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 Runtime Explorer


Runtime Explorer allows you to investigate and manipulate live objects in runtime, thus saving you effort in design mode.

In practical terms, you can understand the window structure and, for each control, locate the PBL and the container object, explore and change properties, take notes, move and resize. Changes are written to a detailed report file so that the original source code can be altered quickly and easily. You can even open and modify DataWindow buffers.

Looking beyond development work, Runtime Explorer can be distributed royalty-free together with your live applications, in order to expedite technical support activities. Access to the tool in these circumstances is under developer control, of course, since it is too powerful for most end users.

Runtime Explorer has a plug-in architecture which allows for third-party add-ons, including such tools as: impact analysis, bug-tracking and testing systems, source code analysis and document authoring.

Learn more about Rex
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 PowerLIB
PowerLIB provides all the components needed to develop client/server applications. The implementation of these components is extremly simplified, thus gaining 40 to 80% on the developement duration depending on the application and reducing the number of lines of code to be written of more than 50%.

First French Framework since 1993, PowerLIB became the market reference.

Developers, thanks to numerous wizards, concentrate on programming rules and let PowerLIB manage the technical part of the application.

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 Appeon for PowerBuilder

Appeon for PowerBuilder 5.1 supports more PowerBuilder features than ever and offers even better usability and runtime performance. If you are looking to build powerful data-driven Web applications look no further-there is no easier or faster approach. Deploy simultaneously to J2EE and .NET, and enjoy the freedom of choice.

More information about Appeon for PowerBuilder...
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