We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Synergy 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."Managing source code, tracking modifications, and being able to analyze evolutions of source code are the most valuable features."
"The solution’s fast performance is its most valuable feature."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like to see more integration with respect to requirement management, though this is not possible with this Synergy solution. I know that PTC enables this feature as well as Polarion. We need to have full trustworthiness and accountability in knowing that the tool will track every modification from specification through to the source code, with Synergy this isn't possible. The solution requires additional tools like rectify, desktop system solutions, to enable trustability between requirements, from one specification to another."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"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."
"Support response time could stand improvement."
"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 tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"Accessibility switches available on the desktop should also be available on mobile devices for coding or developing on the go."
"The product must improve its stability."
"The user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
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IBM Rational Synergy is ranked 10th in Software Configuration Management while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. IBM Rational Synergy is rated 3.0, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Synergy writes "Users must go through a lot of steps to properly manipulate this solution, which can interrupt workflows and cause unnecessary downtime". 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 Rational Synergy is most compared with IBM Rational ClearQuest, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with .
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