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What is Visual Expert?

Visual Expert is a static code analyzer for Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL and PowerBuilder. Identify code dependencies to modify your code without breaking your application. Leverage hundreds of features to improve the quality, performance, and security of your applications. Find Cross References Identify code dependencies to estimate the impact of a change and modify your code without breaking your application. Detect Security Vulnerabilities Automatically scan your code to detect and fix security issues. Generate Code Inspection Report to clean it up, streamline maintenance efforts and avoid unexpected behavior. Review CRUD Operations Automatically generate a CRUD matrix showing which programs access your data. Generate Diagrams from your code to visualize objects and dependencies: Call graphs, Data Models, impact analysis diagrams… Automatically generate comprehensive HTML documentation of your source code. Analyze and Improve Code Performance Find the slow pieces of code, analyze processes, and remove bottlenecks. Compare two versions of your application or sets of code. Filter changes and save snapshots of your code to compare them anytime in the future.

Visual Expert Details
Languages Supported
English, French, Japanese, Spanish
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Product Description

Visual Expert analyzes your code to provide deep impact analysis, identify the breaking changes, remove security vulnerabilities, and improve code quality and maintainability.


Seller Details
Seller
Novalys
Year Founded
1998
HQ Location
Boulogne-Billancourt, Ile-de-France
Twitter
@PowerBuilderTV
635 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
22 employees on LinkedIn®

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Mohammed A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Need demanding upfront incurred time"
Visual Expert has proven to be an excellent tool in making entangled coding structures less of a problem. It generates call graphs and dependency m...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Visual Expert Review"
Capable of analyze various programming languages, either separately or altogether. Can analyze languages like PowerBuilder Front-end + an Oracle b...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A great tool for your DB/source code analysis"
The impact analysis report that is offered by Visual Expert in its standard format is very very satisfactory. The navigation through every aspect o...
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Visual Expert Media

Visual Expert Demo - Cross References
Analyze the impact of a change in your code. Estimate what you should modify to accomplish a change without breaking your application.
Visual Expert Demo - Code Documentation
Document the inner working of your code. Share the knowledge with project team members. Schedule automatic documentation generation as per your need.
Visual Expert Demo - Code Security
Scan your code detect and fix security vulnerabilities. Check your code against code inspection rules to find flaws or weaknesses preventing security breaches.
Visual Expert Demo - Code Quality
Code Inspection Report to clean up your code. Improve maintainability and reliability of your code. Comply with development standards.
Visual Expert Demo - Code Comparison
Compare different databases or two different versions of the same code. Identify differences.
Visual Expert Demo - Code Performance
Find slow pieces of code. Analyze processes. Remove bottlenecks.
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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

Visual Expert has proven to be an excellent tool in making entangled coding structures less of a problem. It generates call graphs and dependency matrices in a detailed manner as well as makes code interactions taboreasier to understand. It has been a break-through for training new team members and successfully getting through with difficult problem-solving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

The challenge I had to surmount concerning Visual Expert was the first trial going. The software presents an array of functions and acquiring the proficiency to bey the measure of all is a very time consuming epic. Even though the tutorials exist I tried and I somehow felt that they are not that of a user friendly nature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the help of Visual Expert, we have done not only our jobs much easier, but we have also spared ourselves a lot of time. This saves a lot of time and frustatration, because it prevents us from feeling lost and disoriented in long line code. These new-found coding abilities are what boost our performance and give us that peaceful feeling of accomplishment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

Capable of analyze various programming languages, either separately or altogether.

Can analyze languages like PowerBuilder Front-end + an Oracle back-end + Front-end / Back-end dependencies.

Capable of analyzing multiple applications at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

Not much oh help available on line.

Documentation can be improved.

Can be little simplier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Expert:

Highly recommended tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

Analyzing several programming languages

Team members can collaborate and share the same code analysis.

Analyzing multiple applications at the same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Hello,

Thank you so much for taking the time to post an honest review for Visual Expert Code Analyzer.

To align with your feedback:

The VE team has worked and updated the Documentation of Visual Expert for PowerBuilder, Oracle & SQL Server. You can discover the step-by-step user guides for all key features with the latest screenshots in all languages, including English, Spanish, French, and Japanese.

Please do not hesitate to peruse the Documentation on the revamped website: https://www.visual-expert.com/

Eager to surpass your expectations!

With best Regards,

Visual Expert Team

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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

It has lot of good features. I like impact analysis the most because I used in my day to day activity to determine the references. Also I like CRUD matrix and Code review functionality. Overall it's a good package with ample of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

I am using this product and quite happy with that. Nothing to compliant about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Expert:

It is really good tool to analyzed the power builder source code, SQL and Oracle database. Gives most of the required details which helps developer to refactor or optimize the source code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in database and code optimization by using code review features which gives details on missing primary key, indexes etc. also it gives details on component which is unused. So overall it gives us all the details on code review. Also it helps to determine the references with in code which is helpful while refactoring the source code. Another good thing is code comparison, which compare two sets of code and gives us the result in the nice graphical manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Hello,

Thank you so much for your feedback. We promise to keep working towards speedy and productive code analysis features making your code quality at the best!

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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

Visual Expert saves my efforts while developing and maintaining our project as it provides functionalities for code review and performance improvements. The automated HTML documentation generated is of great help for maintaining the complex code and while reviewing it with the team members. They have an inbuilt ticketing system in the software to contact the support, and that really helps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

For a large amount of code visual Expert takes a long time to analyze and produce the required result, but Visual Expert comes with the functionality of scheduling the analysis as well as generating the documentation, which mitigates this issue partially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Complex source code maintenance is made easy

- Impact analysis and Performance analysis are useful for the betterment of the code

- Automated documentation is a handy way to check the progress and have the clarity of development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Thank You for your honest feedback. We will keep striving towards speedy and productive code analysis with top quality.

Nimit J.
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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

Automatic documentation generation. The generation of diagrams synchronized with the code to help understand code dependencies easily. Various scheduling options for impact analysis as well as documentation generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

Nothing so far. The features integrated into Visual Expert are way more productive than any other code analysis software in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Expert:

Use the trial version with sample project at first, utilizing every Macro for various impact analysis available. Also, generate CRUD matrix. Make sure that you have used automatic documentation generation and check the output in HTML format. This is highly recommendable for PowerBuilder, Oracle and SQL Server developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

The speed of developing high-quality code has increased noticeably for the developers. Also, the database code stays neat and it gets really easy to transfer knowledge about source code to new entrants in an existing project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

The scheduling of code analysis as well as documentation generation. It allows me to leave my tasks on for the night, and hence when I am back the next day - the analysis and documentation is ready. No time wastage at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

Currently, Visual Expert works for PowerBuilder, Oracle and SQL Server database which includes T-SQL and PL/SQL languages. I would really want its full features to work for more languages like Python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Expert:

The free trial comes with sample projects of various languages. Use them to experience all the features and look out for your best usage possibilities. Make sure you buy it for automatic documentation generation and code diagrams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

Operating an evolving team in terms of size requires constant communication regarding code among the developers. Using the diagram generation feature of Visual Expert that is synchronized with code itself, self-explains the dependencies to the new entrants in any project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Thank You for appreciating our code analysis for Oracle, SQL Server database as well as PowerBuilder code. We will release a Press Release, whenever we launch an update for Python.

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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

Visual Expert es una herramienta imprescindible para nuestras aplicaciones PowerBuilder. Sus puentos fuertes son:

- Es una herramienta intuitiva y fácil de usar.

- Su configuración es sencilla

- Su herramienta de análisis de impacto es muy buena. Permita revisar el impacto de cualquier modificación antes de implementarla con el máximo detalle.

- Permite la documentación de las aplicaciones de una manera sencilla Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

La aplicación actualmente cumple con todas nuestra necesidades. Actualmente no echamos en falta ninguna funcionalidad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

Utilizamos Visual Expert para el mantenimiento de nuestras aplicaciones. Antes de realizar cualquier cambio evaluamos su impacto con VE.

También depuramos código revisando funcionalidad obsoleta. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Hola,

Gracias por tomarte el tiempo de probar Visual Expert.

El equipo de VE seguirá aportando funcionalidades eficaces para mejorar automáticamente la calidad y la seguridad del código.

Aquí está el enlace del blog de noticias de VE para mantenerte actualizado con las últimas funcionalidades:

https://www.visual-expert.com/ES/visual-expert-blog/posts-2021/

Saludos,

El equipo de Visual Expert

JM
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

It is a unique product which can parse the Oracle and TSQL code and classify the objects and show the impact of each objects or items. Impact can be seen in diagram also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

Nothing so far. Features Impact analysis, Compare code and Documentation are very useful and user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Expert:

Useful for those handling the Maintenance projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easily identify what will be the impact of the changes in the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Hello Jamalluddin,

Thank You for your positive feedback. We will continue to strive for automating your code review and analysis!

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What do you like best about Visual Expert?

The impact analysis report that is offered by Visual Expert in its standard format is very very satisfactory. The navigation through every aspect of the analysis is self-explanatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Expert?

Couldn't find anything to dislike. The tool worked fine for my team as it was! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Expert solving and how is that benefiting you?

The automatic documentation generation is the best. Plus various scheduling options add to many benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nimit Jivnani of Visual Expert

Hello,

Thank You for your positive feedback! We will continue to strive for automating your team's code review and analysis.