On last April we have talked about Software as a Service (SaaS) from Phase 2, especially Hosted Lotus Notes and its benefits to streamline business applications of small to medium sized businesses. But besides IBM Lotus On-Demand, PHASE 2 also has launched SaaS – Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to help improve the effectiveness of team-based software development.

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server or VS TFS encourages every software developer to use the Microsoft Solutions Framework to help implement their software development process. Enable them to continually deliver successful applications to come together to effectively ongoing project. As an integrated collaboration server, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server provides a source control repository. TFS source control system stores all code as well as record of all changes and current check-outs which backed by SQL Server. Developers can track work items like bug, task, QoS requirement, scenario, and others. And TFS can provide reporting services in various formats like XML and PDF. And it also has advanced tools and applications like team test load agent to perform automated load testing on a web or windows application.

Of course there are many great advantages of using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. However, the expensive of Visual Studio TFS make it exclusive to large companies. But with Phase 2 hosted software application, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server becomes a perfect solution for any size of company. To see more how it works and how it can save your money, you can visit Phase2.com and use use SaaS savings calculator to calculate the money you can save, even up to 80%. Here you can also find other Phase 2 SaaS Microsoft products to best suit your business needs such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft CRM Host, and Microsoft Project Server.