Partner Solutions

Partners are critical to the success of Visual Studio Team System. Partners offering complementary solutions are featured below. For a listing of partners who offer process templates, see Process Templates from Partners.

AmberPoint provides software to build, validate and deploy web services. AmberPoint Express provides rich monitoring and diagnostic capabilities that enable developers to analyze and fine-tune their Web services. AmberPoint Express ships in the box with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects.

For more information visit https://www.amberpoint.com/.

AutomatedQA delivers tools that cover many parts of the software development lifecycle. Their TestComplete product integrates with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers and provides unit, functional, regression, distributed and HTTP performance testing at the project level.

AVIcode develops and markets Intercept Studio™ which monitors .NET Framework-based applications in real-time production environments. Intercept Studio provides immediate visibility of application-level and business process errors, even those not yet discovered by end users.Their fault management software integrates with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers.

For more information visit https://www.avicode.com/.

Borland® CaliberRM™, seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, provides a rich requirements management environment facilitating requirements management. Microsoft Visual Team System, coupled with CaliberRM, help teams deliver higher quality products in less time by making sure requirements updates are provided to the correct team members and the linked code, tests, and development assets are updated to reflect these changes.

For more information visit https://www.borland.com/.

Compuware's testing and quality tools are familiar to many professional developers. Compuware will release QACenter Enterprise Edition's functional testing solution - TestPartner. Compuware TestPartner 5.4 will offer automated functional and regression testing integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

For more information visit https://www.compuware.com/.

Ekobit

Ekobit TeamCompanion enables any project stakeholder using Microsoft Outlook to communicate, have insight into and update project relevant data in software projects hosted by the Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Through deep integration with the familiar Outlook user interface, the TeamCompanion reduces the learning curve and boosts productivity. A number of unique TeamCompanion features, such as offline work with work items or scheduled work item queries, results in better project status visibility and transparency throughout the project lifecycle.

For more information visit https://www.teamcompanion.com.

Macrovision announced that it will provide an important bridge between Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) for distributed enterprise applications. The new technology is based on industry-standard InstallShield® and provides the ability to quickly and reliably deploy applications via SMS across distributed systems that are designed and validated using Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

For more information visit https://www.macrovision.com/.

Nolics.NET provides rapid development for database centric applications by providing a object-relational framework so that you can build business applications faster. Nolics.NET will implement their own Domain Specific Language within Visual Studio Team System to accelerate code generation and business object visualisation.

For more information visit https://www.nolics.net/.

IRIS Process Author from Osellus is used to tailor existing Team System process templates or assemble entirely new processes. Team System instantiates the resulting process models across multiple development projects. The combination of IRIS as an authoring environment and VSTS as an enactment platform constitutes a leading process automation solution for the enterprise.

For more information visit https://www.osellus.com/.

Teamprise provides a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server from outside of the Visual Studio IDE. Teamprise enables software development teams to use the source control and work item tracking features of Team Foundation Server from within the Eclipse IDE, and from other operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X.

For more information visit https://www.teamprise.com.

Teamlook from Personify Design enables greater communication and collaboration by integrating Visual Studio 2005 Team System with Microsoft Outlook. Teamlook offers project stakeholders a familiar user interface tightly integrated with Microsoft Outlook for managing Work Items, viewing Reports and Queries, and contributing to the overall project.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is a flexible, complete and powerful UML 2.0 modeling tool delivering a competitive edge for system development, project management and business analysis. EA represents true "team" development, offering deep UML 2.0 integration within the Visual Studio 2005 Team System product range; EA features the latest in Model Driven Architecture for specialist development teams.

For more information visit https://www.sparxsystems.com.au.

DevInspect and SecureObjects from SPI Dynamics extend secure development practices across the development organization by leveraging Visual Studio 2005 Team System and facilitate secure development collaboration through support of Team System’s work item tracking and reporting capabilities.

For more information visit https://www.spidynamics.com/.

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