Turn business ideas into solutions

Innovative applications can catapult your business forward providing you with a competitive advantage. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management solution allows you to realize the strategic value of your custom software investments. A rich set of integrated tools and server infrastructure coupled with flexible and agile process’s that represent a breakthrough for development tools, help you manage and optimize your entire software development process. Embrace the differences in each software development project, gain visibility into real project status while streamlining collaboration and the flow of information across your entire team. Realize high quality solutions with predictability while continually driving down the cost of solution development regardless of your team size.

● Increase efficiency across the Application Lifecycle

Project artifacts are stored in a central repository to facilitate in-context collaboration. This reduces waste in hand-over time between tasks and streamlines the development process so team members can focus on delivering value over transitioning information between roles.

● Manage Projects in Real-time Powerful reporting and rich dashboards provide historical trending and real-time visibility into overall project health. Real-time metrics and leading indicators give you early warnings of potential problems and enable you to be proactive and to make data-driven decisions and course corrections.

● Transparency and Traceability Visual Studio 2010 provides full traceability and lets you track progress and quality from code back to business intent and customer requirements. In addition, Web Access and seamless integration with Microsoft Project and Excel, enable business stakeholders and project managers to gain insight into inflight projects to understand how they support the business needs.

● Focus on Quality Powerful automated testing and diagnostic features like IntelliTrace™ make the “no-repro” discussion a thing of the past and effectively eliminate endless back-and-forth discussions and wasted bug reproduction time. Test Impact Analysis helps teams to prioritize and focus their testing efforts while Gated Check-in prevents costly and time-consuming build breaks.

● Align Test Professionals with the Application Lifecycle

Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 is a specialized toolset that delivers an innovative testing experience for test planning and manual test execution. Seamless interoperability with Team Foundation Server enables in-context collaboration between developers and testers and Quality dashboards combine test reports with code metrics to provide a holistic view of project health.

● Understand and Preserve Investments in Existing Applications

The Architecture Explorer and UML sequence diagrams help you explore and understand your existing code assets and their inter-dependencies. The dependency diagrams are generated from code or compiled assemblies to help you understand where to makes changes.

● Consolidate Disparate EnvironmentsVisual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 provides seamless support for Eclipse users. Heterogeneous development teams can reduce operational costs by consolidating disparate version control, work item tracking and automated build systems and standardizing on a single infrastructure.

● Continuous Process ImprovementVisual Studio 2010 can help you drive incremental improvement of products, processes, and quality over time, with the goal of reducing waste to improve resource efficiency, product quality and customer satisfaction. Support for concepts like Continuous Integration, automated code analysis and code reviews, and build and test automation coupled with flexible process templates and trending data enable teams to continuously monitor and improve facets of their application delivery process.

● Embrace the Agile Application LifecycleWith Visual Studio 2010 it has never been easier for software development teams to adopt Agile software development methodologies like Scrum. The Product Backlog can be used to create and manage the product stories while the Iteration Backlog can be used to manage the distillation of stories to tasks, plan iterations, estimate the team’s velocity, load balance across the team, and track progress.

● Deploy Applications with ConfidenceVisual Studio® Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010 lets you simulate real-world application performance, stress and load conditions. Validate that your solutions are ready for customers and that applications will behave in a predictable manner regardless of the situation or condition.

Solution benefits

Quality code ensured Simplicity through integration Creativity unleashedHelp reduce risk with real-time visibility

into project health and deliver higher

quality applications faster by aligning test

professionals with the application lifecyle.

Benefit from an integrated environment

which simplifies common tasks and

helps all team members leverage

a growing number of application

types and deployment platforms.

Gain a competitive advantage through

tools and infrastructure that allows your

team to share your vision, create innovative

applications and explore new opportunities.

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