"Users now expect their government to provide services quickly. It’s no longer the domain of private industry, app stores or commercial and retail offerings. It’s now expected that the government provides those services as well, and does it quickly."

"By using Visual Studio Team Services, we can access Microsoft’s expertise directly. This is an extremely significant benefit, because we could not have established the DevOps pipeline to this extent all on our own."

"Visual Studio provides a familiar environment and the agile development processes that are so common in business today."

"Visual Studio Team Services has helped us embed a number of agile practices in our development methodology. And because we can deploy our solution in Azure, we now have an effective and efficient way to set up a continuous integration and delivery pipeline."

"Using Azure with Visual Studio stimulates innovation. It helps developers discover things that they otherwise wouldn’t if they had to spend time setting up physical infrastructure."

"It’s really hard to beat Azure on cost, and it has the scale and capabilities we need, You see what’s possible now, and every time we check there is a new feature, and then we think of another possibility."

"Instead of telling people to wait for six months for a new feature, we can give it to them in a few weeks. Our lead cycles are getting much shorter, and we have business stakeholders involved so that our solutions are more aligned with business requirements."

"The transition to the cloud was absolutely painless, and within 24 hours we were online and back in action."

"We jokingly say that if there’s a product out there, it’s used somewhere within Shell…. Most of those platforms require us to support a whole raft of technologies, so the cross-platform functionality in Visual Studio Team Services make it a very logical choice for us."

"Nobody had to sell us on VSTS. The benefits… are obvious for our 24/7 operation… We don’t have to spend a lot of time troubleshooting anymore… We have cut the time to resolve bugs in half."

"The more difficult the problem to be solved by IT, the more effective the DevOps approach is. Even if we do not know at the initial stage what a final solution strategy will look like, the ongoing accumulation of knowledge upon knowledge must lead to the optimum solution strategy."

"The truth is, up to that point, I was not familiar with Azure, and I had no idea that Microsoft was this committed to OSS. When we met with Microsoft’s DevOps evangelist, our old impressions were completely transformed."

"We can bring new products to market more quickly now that we use Visual Studio Team Services. Our adoption has been key in bringing the pace of our software development up to the speed of business."

"We can be a lot more consistent with our DevOps pipeline than we can if we're doing manual deployments. And that consistency breeds improved performance, better code quality, and reduces the time for production deployments."

"With Team Services, we can take changes much closer to deployment and still run them through a full series of regression tests and get them into the main deployment build. Team Services enables us to be much more agile in responding to the business."