"Service Fabric was exactly what we needed, It was a way of creating local durable state across a set of machines, without actually having to take multiple machine hops to move it to external storage."

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

"Visual Studio Team Services is a game-changer for Itron. With three-week releases, we can now respond to customer issues and needs so much faster, while also outpacing our competition in capitalizing on new market opportunities."

"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."

"We’ve certainly improved work-item tracking by using Visual Studio Team Services. It allows for better visibility into the creation of tasks, the processes for closing them down, and burndown rates.… We can also customize its new process templates—and still ensure smooth software upgrade processes."

"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."

"Visual Studio Team Services allows us to be more nimble and share projects more easily among our staff worldwide; and it integrates well with our Git repositories."

"The development team can now use Application Insights to react before problems are detected in production, which can affect Iberia Express’s sales and customer satisfaction and has a positive impact on total cost of ownership. Plus, our new system automates the entire lifecycle of an application so we can implement …

"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."

"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."

"With Microsoft, we are putting clients in control of how they conduct each interaction with us. Who wouldn’t like that!"

"With our on-premises environment, we could never have done what we did as quickly and as cost-effectively as we did with Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services. They helped us cut the development cycle by about 50 percent."

"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."

"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."

"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."