Reliable

Your TFS Now service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week (except for a small weekly maintenance window for patches and updates when required). Nightly backups are performed on every TFS Now server, with 7 days retention. Worry no more if you’ve got your backup systems set up properly – we’ll manage it all for you, making sure your data is safe.

Affordable

Never before has TFS been available online for organisations to use for commercial projects! Readify’s TFS Now service is the first of its kind and is incredibly priced to boot. Just look at this amazing introductory offer:

$995 per month for five users, with an ultra-low $85 per user over the initial five.

And because TFS Now is operated as Software as a Service (SaaS), we’ve set it up so you only need to pay for the users you need each month. Do you have 50 developers one month and only 10 the next? That’s all you pay for.
Oh and if you’re someone who’s concerned about the usual Capital Expenditure costs incurred as part of this kind of server set up on your own corporate turf, using TFS Now converts the costs into an Operational Expenditure.

Tools

If you are worried about what tools you need to access TFS Now, don't! By using TFS Now you are automatically licensed to install Team Explorer which can be used stand-alone if all you want to do is work item tracking, or, if you want to cut code you can install it on Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, or, if you have access to them Visual Studio 2005 Team Editions.

Once you have signed up to the service we will arrange for you to be able to download the Team Explorer software to install on your computers.

Accessible

Getting Team Foundation Server set up correctly can be a laborious task but Readify has been through the process already and has a well established track record of successful installations for clients all over the country. Why repeat the pain when you can instead rely on the dependability of Readify’s TFS Now servers that are backed up with the superior quality of our consulting services.

Every project gets its own easy to remember domain name to connect to. Imagine telling the members of your development team to simply connect Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to your TFS system at http://uniqueTFSName.IsReadyNow.com - how easy is that!?

Additionally, TFS Now allows you to assemble a virtual project team from all over the globe to work side by side on the one Team Foundation Server. No more shackles holding you to a single physical location; TFS Now gives each of your developers the ability to connect to your TFS instance without worrying about where they are. Now your tasks can be completed at the office, on the move or in remote locations 24 hours a day, seven days a week (except for that small maintenance window we mentioned earlier).

And most importantly, TFS Now allows you to get going with TFS right now, removing the dependency of having your IT department learn complex system setup tasks simply to set up the development environment.

Feature Rich

And if you think you only get a barebones TFS setup as part of our TFS Now service, you’re in for a great surprise. In addition to your own dedicated TFS system, your project can access the TFS Now Build Server which allows you to produce builds of your source code in a clean-room environment in a repeatable fashion without being subjected to the variable environmental issues of developer workstations. In addition to plain old build support, Readify is integrating support for Continuous Integration and replication of build outputs between team projects to support those more challenging projects where you are using a set of base frameworks.

Of course you also get access to all the usual refinements in Team Foundation Server such as version control, work item tracking, reporting and process guidance. We also realise that you may need to integrate people from outside the development team so we have also bundled Team Plain, a web-based front end for Team Foundation Server into the package.

Customer Charges

Title	Period	Quantity	Amount
Setup Fee (includes decommissioning fee)	Once off upfront	1	$600.00
Server infrastructure & support, including 5 users	Per month	1	$995.00
Each additional user	Per month	1	$85.00