26 Microsoft Visual Studio Testimonials

"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."

"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."

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

"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 continuous deployment."

"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 scale our operations effectively and manage growing demand."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."