"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."

"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."

"We turned a very manual, error-prone development process into a highly streamlined process that operates with a few button clicks—and one-button deployment."

"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."

"Although our new development is in .NET, we still have legacy, lower-level code in C, C++, and other languages, which Visual Studio Team Services can handle, just as it can manage open source languages and tools."

"With an always-on service, customer satisfaction is of utmost importance to us. Moving our advertising rating service to the cloud on Windows Azure and hiring Microsoft Services to optimize the solution’s configurations as well as perform load testing with Visual Studio Online was a good business decision, enabling us to …

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"We handle millions of transactions, and that gives us a tremendous amount of data from which to mine insights. Azure can help us to make our platform’s service even more valuable to our clients."