"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."