Keep Your PowerBuilder Applications Running Strong
NCS and Novalys partner to bring you comprehensive solutions for PowerBuilder application enhancement and maintenance. Extend the life of your applications, improve security, and modernize without costly rewrites.
Why This Hub Exists
NCS and Novalys are committed to supporting PowerBuilder users with proven solutions for common challenges. This hub centralizes information about tools and approaches that work.
Problem-Focused
We organize solutions by the challenges you face, not by product features. Find answers to security needs, performance issues, and modernization requirements.
Community Driven
Built with input from real PowerBuilder users. We collect common concerns and provide tested solutions that have worked for others in similar situations.
Sustainability Focus
Keep your applications viable for the long term. Enhancement and maintenance strategies that protect your investment without requiring complete rewrites.
Latest Articles
2026 Guide to Securing PowerBuilder Applications
February 2026
Comprehensive guide covering authentication, authorization, SQL injection prevention, and compliance requirements.
Download Guide Read OnlineAI for PowerBuilder Maintenance
January 2026
Practical steps to document institutional knowledge and ensure continuity when veteran developers leave.
Download GuideCI/CD White Paper
Interactive Demo
Explore Visual Expert's code analysis capabilities with an interactive demo. See dependency mapping, dead code detection, and more.
Read OnlineWhat Are You Trying to Accomplish?
Choose the area that matches your current needs
Maintenance & Analysis
Simplify the daily maintenance of complex code
- Understand code structure and dependencies
- Generate source code documentation
- Find security and quality problems
- Improve code performance
Application Enhancement
Add new capabilities without starting over
- Strengthen the security of your application
- Modernize your PowerBuilder UI
- Multi-language support for global expansion
- Implement Multi-factor authentication
Common PowerBuilder Challenges We Address
Real problems that PowerBuilder teams face every day
Veteran Developers Retiring
Knowledge walking out the door? Visual Expert helps document and understand code structure before it's too late.
Security & Compliance Requirements
New regulations demand stronger authentication, access control, and audit trails. Visual Guard adds enterprise-grade security.
Global Expansion Needs
Foreign users or overseas offices? Enable adds multi-language support quickly without touching your core code.
Outdated User Interface
Users complain the UI looks ancient? Ultimate Suite brings modern design elements without a complete rebuild.
Why NCS Recommends These Solutions
As the official PowerBuilder distributor in Japan, NCS has decades of experience helping customers maintain and extend their PowerBuilder applications.
Our partnership with Novalys brings proven tools that our customers have successfully used to solve real-world challenges. These aren't theoretical solutions - they're battle-tested in production environments.
Our goal: Help you keep PowerBuilder applications running effectively for as long as you need them.
Learn More About This PartnershipWhat Makes This Hub Different
- Problem-first approach: Organized by what you're trying to solve, not by product features
- Real user feedback: Solutions based on actual customer experiences and success stories
- No vendor lock-in: While we recommend Novalys tools we know well, we're open to other solutions that work
- Community input welcome: Have a challenge we haven't addressed? Let us know and we'll research solutions
PowerBuilder: A Platform Under Active Development
PowerBuilder's roadmap is as ambitious as ever — IDE modernization, cloud capabilities, security, developer productivity — with major releases every 10–12 months, built on decades of mission-critical deployments.
PowerBuilder 2025
GA — May 2025A major release featuring a new-generation code editor, an ultra-fast compiler (2–3× faster builds), automatic REST API creation from DataWindows, codeless UI modernization with ribbon menus, and improved Git integration.
PowerBuilder 2025 R2
BetaCurrently in beta, R2 adds IDE dark mode, per-monitor DPI awareness, SVG support in all picture controls, executable security flags (SafeSEH, DEP, ASLR, CFG), and further code editor productivity improvements including reduced memory usage in solution mode.
Product Roadmap
Appeon's published roadmap covers core features, UI modernization, developer productivity, and cloud technology.
View RoadmapElevate US 2025 Replays
Session recordings from the annual Appeon conference, including PB 2025 R2 features and the long-term product roadmap.
Watch SessionsDocumentation & Trial
Official PowerBuilder documentation, tutorials, and a fully functional 30-day trial.