Visual Studio Team System Product Information

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Product Information

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is a collection of tightly-integrated software development tools that change the way software development teams work together. With Visual Studio Team System, organizations can reduce software development complexity, facilitate collaboration among all team members, accelerate development time, improve predictability and reliability of the development process, and customize and extend Visual Studio Team System with their own internal tools, process frameworks, and supplemental partner products

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Microsoft ® Visual Studio® Team System is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work together more effectively.

Visual Studio Team System consists of:

Role-Based Editions (IDE-based tools)

Visual Studio Team System role-based editions add team-based software development functionality to Visual Studio for:

Software Architects
Software Developers
Database Professionals
Software Testers (including load testing)

Visual Studio Team Suite combines the functionality from all four Visual Studio Team System role-based editions into a single IDE experience.

Team Foundation Server

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is a unified team collaboration server that supports distributed and global development with:

Version Control
Work Item Tracking (Project Management)
Team Portal
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Build Server
Web Access

Process Templates and Guidance

Customizable process templates and guidance from Microsoft and industry partners. The process and guidance is enacted in the tooling to define best practices, workflow, common documents, and work items.

Microsoft Office Integration

Integration into Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project included for all team members with a Team Foundation Server Client Access License (CAL), including Business Analysts and Project Managers.

Visual Studio Industry Partners

Visual Studio Team System is a platform with over 200 Visual Studio Industry Partners offering more than 400 supplemental products to support a broad range of software processes, tools (including Java environments such as Eclipse), and platforms (such as UNIX and Mac OS).