TeamCompanion
TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook – the best companion for your Microsoft Team System based team!
Current version:2.2
NEWS: TeamCompanion sim-ships with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010!
Ekobit presents the TeamCompanion for Outlook, an Add-In for the Microsoft Office Outlook – the perfect solution for integrating e-mail and Outlook with the Team Foundation Server. The TeamCompanion improves your project communication and removes friction from it.
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TeamCompanion brings even more 'team-ness' into Team System. By tying Outlook and Desktop Search with TFS, TeamCompanion bridges the collaboration of stakeholder and development worlds. It’s a great idea.
Sam Guckenheimer
Group Product Planner, Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft
Author: Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
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Collaboration is the heart of a Team's success. TeamCompanion has done a brilliant job at bringing together the power of Team System and Outlook. TeamCompanion is a MUST HAVE for every Team Foundation user - its just that simple!
Joel Semeniuk, RD, Team System MVP
Author: Managing Projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
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A must-have tool for everyone who works heavily with Work Items in TFS. Finally you have e-mail and work item communication in one tool and you can use Outlooks rich grouping and searching capabilities to organize your work items as well.
Neno Loje
Team System MVP
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We are very happy we found this tool from Ekobit. It is the perfect solution, as it solves many problems, starting with the missing HTML feature (that even TFS 2010 did not solve). It beautifully integrates e-mail and Outlook with Team Foundation Server and that makes TeamCompanion the single best thing you can do to improve your project communication with developers and clients.
Adam Cogan
Team System MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, SSW Chief Architect
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My job, like many others, require me to use both Outlook and Team Foundation Server. Team Companion breaks down the walls between Outlook and TFS, by providing a nice, seamless integration. To put it simply, it saves me time … several times a day. Love it!
Gregg Boer
Program Manager, TFS, Work Item Tracking / Project Management, Microsoft
With the TeamCompanion you can access project related information using Outlook without having to switch between applications. It enables accessing some of most important artifacts in your Team System environment, such as team projects, work items, etc., without the need to use the Visual Studio Team Explorer or Team System Web Access.
TeamCompanion enables you to take your work items offline – all work item data is available for read-only access, even if your Team Foundation Server is not accessible. You only need to connect to the server when editing Work Items.
By integrating standard Outlook actions, the TeamCompanion increases your productivity dramatically. E-mails can directly be attached to existing work items, thereby enhancing team communication and cooperation, new work items can easily be created (from scratch or based on selected e-mails) or new appointments created from work items.
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With the TeamCompanion you can take advantage of some standard Outlook features, such as the instant search feature which searches through all work item fields, even if you are offline, or the grouping and favorite folders features.
Starting at just $139 for single user licence. |
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The TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook features:
- Work with multiple Team Foundation Servers and multiple Projects
- Offline work with Work Items
- Reports (including multiple saved parameter sets for each report)
- View and Edit Work Items
- Work Item Query management
- TeamCompanion is compatible with Windows 7
- Support for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta
- Compatibility with Microsoft CRM Add-In for Outlook
- „Query by example“ Work Item Query editor (including full-text search support)
- Powerful online and offline work item search capabilities including desktop search integration
- Create Work Item from E-mail, attach E-mail to Work Item
- Attaching mails to work items using drag-n-drop
- Create E-mail from Work Item, group of selected Work Items or Query result **
- Create Outlook Task or Meeting Request from Work Item
- Scheduled Work Item queries
- Work item Reminders, To-Do Bar view and Favorite Folders integration *
- Open related object (work item, changeset or build) action for notification mails
- Bulk state change and Bulk Reassign
- Edit areas and iterations
- Subscription to TFS alert notification
- Integration with Excel and Project
- Accessing the project portal
- Add related Work Item action
- Various improvements (opening changeset links, attach images in work items by copying, edit grouping as a part of editing work item queries etc.)
- Improved performance and usability
For more on features click here.
* For reminders to work you need to open Properties dialog for the TeamCompanion folder and turn the option "Display reminders and Tasks from this folder in the To-Do Bar".
**You must be connected to the TFS if you want to: edit existing Work Items, create new Work Items or attach e-mails to your Work Items.
Copyright notice: Microsoft, Outlook and the Visual Studio Team System logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
