Technology that supports your business' team system innovation

As a technical decision maker in an IT organization, you're critical in helping drive your company's business strategy and achieving goals defined by senior leaders. From improving processes to creating new products, IT has innumerable opportunities to make key improvements and drive success. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 can help you streamline steps of the application lifecycle, so you can deliver better solutions more efficiently than ever.

IT can be a competitive differentiator for your business. Visual Studio Team System 2008 is a flexible and agile application lifecycle management solution that lets your teams deliver innovative products, and can help you reduce enterprise costs and time to market. It's easy to implement and integrates with the tools your team is already using.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 delivers measurable business value by:

Improving communication and collaboration

A unified team server provides the collaboration hub for all team members by centralizing storage, versioning and reporting on all assets within the application development lifecycle. The end result? Your team will collaborate and integrate transparently. Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server gives your team the power to work together seamlessly and allows you to reliably know the "real" progress throughout the lifecycle.

Ensuring quality, early and often

From tracking requirements during planning, to load testing during quality assurance, Team System's toolset makes quality a top priority at every step of the lifecycle… and provides traceability throughout.

Managing change

Change is inevitable, but it doesn't have to cripple your development systems. Visual Studio Team System 2008 helps you not only manage change throughout the lifecycle, but also helps you embrace it as part of your process.

Improving team workflow

Work Item Tracking efficiently manages work assignments and status across all team members allowing them to work as a team regardless of their location.

Reducing risk with integrated version control

Continuous integration and scheduled builds, labeling, check-out on edit and more helps keep teams on track.

Enabling informed, real-time decisions

Get the data you need, when you need it with a comprehensive business intelligence reporting system for all aspects of the project.

Driving predictability

Integrated process templates help teams deliver predictable results, make ongoing improvements and effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.

Offering complete support

With an MSDN subscription for your team, they'll get the technical support, product updates and latest releases they need to turn their ideas into a polished solution.