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."All of the features work together to provide a powerful holistic solution - from the dashboard all the way through to security."
"Traceability reporting is inbuilt and includes all your requirements."
"Work distribution among team members and accountability for completion with a clearer picture."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is very stable."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"The solution’s fast performance is its most valuable feature."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"Visual Studio Team System is the most powerful IDE available in the market."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Every month there is an increase in the number of users. It is a scalable solution."
"IntelliSense and CodeLens are helpful because they can show you details about your function, such as how many times it is called from other places within the code."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"Teams need clearer pictures of resource availability in charts and dashboards along with plans."
"Some administrative tasks are difficult to perform. These could be simplified."
"The solution is very heavily vendor dependent."
"Lacks ability to customize and reporting can be slow."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"The technical support could be better."
"The overall customer support needs to improve."
"The user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"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."
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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 8.6. 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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