Gartner SCCM Magic Quadrant Ranks Microsoft VSTS a Leader
A few weeks ago Gartner published their 2009 Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms (what a mouthful!) and in their evaluation has ranked Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server as a leader in the space. This is Microsoft’s first time ranking as a leader which is defined as having a “broad solution with significant support for ALM deployment.” From my perspective, it was merely a matter of time before we were recognized in this way but it’s still an exciting milestone for us.
Some of the strengths that are called out in this evaluation include:
The product has a flexible process model implemented in a single integrated metadata repository.
- Basing change, versioning and configuration around the concept of work items, rather than physical code changes, reduces programmer overhead for change management.
- Distributed support within a team system project is well-supported with Web proxies.
- Team System has demonstrated scalability.
You can read the full reports here:
Congrats to the Team System team for receiving this important recognition.
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