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Manage Change Successfully
-Change is the only constant in today's competitive business environment; Team Foundation Server is a productive and effective solution for managing change that is suitable for organizations of all size.
-Change affects everyone in an organization; Team Foundation Server enables organizations to communicate changes in a timely, friction-free manner.
-Source code files, business requirements and artwork are just a few examples of the diverse types of assets that are crucial for a business; Team Foundation Server provides efficient, secure and reliable storage for assets of all shapes and sizes in one central place.
-The cost of governance and auditing can be daunting; Team Foundation Server's integration with industry-leading development tools and productivity suites ensures that teams can capture the data they need for governance and auditing automatically, without additional overhead.

Bring Teams Together
-Successful teams collaborate to add value; Team Foundation Server enables teams to collaborate successfully - no matter what geographic, organizational or physical boundaries separate them.
-Team Foundation Server provides seamless synchronization with existing enterprise infrastructures and productivity tools to maximize productivity and existing investments.
-Team Foundation Server is built on standards-driven platforms such as XML Web Services and HTTP; this enables support for the heterogeneous platforms and networks that are common-place, but seldom recognized by current tools in today’s business environments.

Continuously Improve
-Capture best practices with customizable process templates in Team Foundation Server to promote success across all of your teams.
-Team Foundation Server enables agile teams to interact, collaborate and respond to change successfully with industry-leading guidance such as Microsoft Solutions Framework.
-Make business decisions based on accurate, real-time reports built from Team Foundation Server's central data warehouse.

Software Assurance
Microsoft's Software Assurance gives you automatic access to new technology and provides productivity benefits, support, tools, and training to help deploy and use software efficiently.

With Software Assurance, you receive access to new versions of licensed software released during the term of your agreement to deploy at your own pace. New Version Rights simplifies the procurement process and shortens the business process cycle, allowing you to reduce the costs associated with acquiring new version releases and immediately take advantage of the latest technology.

Software Assurance offers greater flexibility in managing technology expenditures by allowing you to spread payments annually. This allows you to reduce initial costs and forecast annual software budget requirements up to three years in advance.