"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."

"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 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."

"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 …

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

"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 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 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."

"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."

"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 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."