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. more…
In the era of cloud computing today, SaaS will increasingly be used by companies, non-profit organizations, and even personnel because of the needs of anywhere, anytime. People don’t have to bring a device (such as laptop, mobile phone) with a lot of processing applications installed and extra storage for that. With SaaS, People only need a small enough device (thin client) with all processing and storage of data is done in the cloud server/data center via internet connections.