In the application development environment, business value comes from efficient management of your development teams and processes, increasing your people’s productivity to meet project deadlines and delivering high-quality software. Utilizing Microsoft’s development platform, our experts help you quickly and confidently deliver high-quality business applications with enhanced security. Working with our experts, you can align business demands and IT investments as you manage applications throughout the IT lifecycle from conception to support. Enable your teams to deliver quality early and often with built-in tools that help lower costs and accelerate delivery.


Work with us to

• Increase application development process predictability, control and visibility
• Align business demands and IT development investments
• Manage applications throughout the IT lifecycle
• Enable your teams to deliver quality early and often in the lifecycle
• Lower development costs and accelerate time to delivery
• Provide easy-to-use business intelligence to all your people
• Empower your employees to identify opportunities that can increase profits and reduce costs
• Integrate and synchronize diverse data stores
• Enable real-time analysis of your business across applications
• Connect your systems, processes, people and information more easily
• Gain increased visibility and insight into projects while increasing IT agility and responsiveness to your business needs
• Realize greater business value with widely adopted tools and industry-leading price-for-performance solutions that work the way you want and need them to

Application Lifecycle Management Offerings
The Microsoft Services application lifecycle management suite of offerings combines Microsoft software with services designed to meet your application development objectives. Our application lifecycle management offerings will address your end-to-end application lifecycle needs and enable you to prioritize and implement capabilities in the order that best suits your organization need. Our portfolio ranges from workshops that educate your people in the various development methodologies to tools that fully integrate with the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to expedite your implementation of the application lifecycle management platform. We recommend that all application lifecycle management engagements begin with an assessment of your current environment to provide a comprehensive roadmap of the enhancements you can undertake. Let Microsoft Services help you reach your application lifecycle management objectives with these services:

Assessment - Provides insight into the maturity of your software development capabilities and recommends potential improvements to help increase the predictability and success of your application development projects.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Production Pilot - Provides a functional Visual Studio Team Foundation Server solution in your production environment and moves one of your small teams to the environment. The production pilot enables you to verify the solution on a real project and creates a migration plan for your remaining projects.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Lab Pilot ? Provides you with a functional Visual Studio Team Foundation Server solution in a lab environment that will accelerate your team?s experience and expertise.

Build Management Jumpstart - Provides you with the necessary tools to efficiently manage build cycles for software development. This Visual Studio Team System solution is designed to quickly implement a build management process that is customized for your environment and will help you get your business solutions implemented more quickly.

Release Management with Visual Studio Team System - Provides guidance on how to establish and ensure the success of a release management discipline with a focus on governance, strategies, and source control management.