"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 …

"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."