We performed a comparison between IBM Engineering Workflow Management and Visual Studio Team System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."Agile templates give us a standard methodology for every Agile project. Also, the ability to create our own object types and linkages to features/epics allows us to enhance the verification of feature readiness."
"Work distribution among team members and accountability for completion with a clearer picture."
"Traceability reporting is inbuilt and includes all your requirements."
"We can track the status of test cases (passed or saved) in a single view. Based on releases and other attributes, we generate various reports and extract metrics from the data."
"Good for managing stories, sprints, hydration and releases."
"All of the features work together to provide a powerful holistic solution - from the dashboard all the way through to security."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"The product is efficient."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"The most valuable feature is the code management, where there is sharing of code for developers and it is distributed within the organization."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"Some administrative tasks are difficult to perform. These could be simplified."
"We have encountered issues with stability. We have seen where the entire system kind of goes for a toss when certain people use certain types of queries, which are very costly. Then the system kind of slows down a bit, and we have to monitor it."
"Lacks ability to customize and reporting can be slow."
"Teams need clearer pictures of resource availability in charts and dashboards along with plans."
"The solution is very heavily vendor dependent."
"The tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"The product should be priced better."
"Accessibility switches available on the desktop should also be available on mobile devices for coding or developing on the go."
"When you go into the front-end, the web portal, if, for example, you pick up an issue, it would be ideal if the branch was automatically created in the repository. Right now, this isn't the case."
"The technical support could be better."
"The product must improve its stability."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"I have seen customizations with Team System that allowed it to integrate into other ticketing systems like Jira, which would be a really nice feature to see."
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IBM Engineering Workflow Management is ranked 7th in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. IBM Engineering Workflow Management is rated 6.8, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Engineering Workflow Management writes "Offers good traceability elements but UI needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Team System writes "A scalable and efficient solution that can be used to perform tasks involved in developing information systems". IBM Engineering Workflow Management is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, GitLab and Polarion ALM, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with .
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