"Visual Studio Team System brought the entire software development lifecycle together in one unified environment so that we could configure workflows and manage everything in one system."
—Sean Souther, Vice President of Product Execution, LSI
Streamlined Teamwork from Concept to Completion
The Microsoft Visual Studio Team System offers a highly effective set of tools, processes, and guidance to support an ALM strategy. It provides support for team portals, process enforcement, version control, work-item tracking, build management, and business intelligence.
- Reduce friction and improve information flow throughout the application lifecycle
- Increase visibility into project status and progress
- Streamline version control, work assignment and tracking, builds, and testing
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Lending Services Firm Aligns ALM with Business Goals
LSI, a division of Lending Process Services, chose Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008, because it encompasses code management and supports agile process methodologies like Scrum. LSI avoided more than U.S.$40,000 in software upgrade costs and realized significant process efficiencies, greater reliability of its builds, and easier access to current and historical project information for reporting and audit purposes.
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Esurance: Reduces development costs by approximately 20 percent and improved the quality of its applications
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Read the case studyThe Shaw Group: 40 Percent Increase in Developer Productivity
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"I remember working on projects of a similar scale that took four times the effort using older technologies. AJAX technologies, advanced IntelliSense for JavaScript, and the myriad of other useful features enabled me to create an efficient, highly intuitive product in a quarter of the time."
—Alan Gajadhar, Lead Software Engineer, Clear Channel Communications
Freedom to Do What You Do Best
A rich development platform makes custom solution development more affordable. The integrated development environment, common programming framework, and “prebuilt plumbing” in Visual Studio 2008 enables developers to focus on solving business problems while letting the platform itself solve common technical challenges.
- Enhance developer productivity
- Accelerate solution delivery
- Build custom solutions more cost-effectively
- Begin realizing ROI much sooner
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Clear Channel Communications: 84 Percent Smaller Code Base
The application used by Clear Channel Communications to optimize and obtain ad rates had become increasingly difficult to troubleshoot, support, and extend, with major new features taking up to six months to deliver. Once implementing Visual Studio Team System 2008, they improved performance by up to 400 percent, reduced the development staff devoted to the solution by half, and reassigned those developers to produce similar gains elsewhere in the company.
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Zaptag: Tenfold Increase in Development Speed
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Read the case studyEDS: Global IT Firm Improves Teamwork, Lowers Risk with Distributed-Server Development. ROI: 286 percent, Payback: 4 months
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"Interactive design is a new service offering for us, and it’s definitely helping us to win new business.… Overall, we’ve been able to grow our revenue by 20 percent."
—Mark Alexander, President, ISC
Design and Dev—Together at Last
Improved designer-developer collaboration can help project teams adopt a more user-centric approach to building those solutions, and in turn it can lead to increased client satisfaction and increased sales.
- Improve collaboration and streamline workflows with designers using Microsoft Expression® design tools Expression® design tools
- Enable development teams to work faster
- Focus on the user experience throughout the application life cycle
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ISC: 33 Percent Faster Development and a 20 Percent Increase in Revenue
ISC, which focuses on geographic information systems and other spatially enabled solutions, knew that remaining competitive would require improving user experience. Their new design group used Expression Blend with Visual Studio 2008 to help ensure an early focus on more customer-friendly solutions. The combined tool set was a driving factor behind the company’s decision to launch a new interactive design group that became profitable in only two months.
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Vertigo: Delivery of a Rich, Interactive Solution in Half the Time
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