Last week at our Connect(); event in New York City, we made some big announcements regarding our ecosystem from a developer as well as a partner point of view.  In addition to those announcements, I wanted to call your attention to special offers for MSDN subscribers from some of our top Visual Studio partners.  You can also check out this short video on Channel 9 to learn more about the partner ecosystem and these great offers.

These offers are live on the MSDN Special offers page and include:

	Connect LeanKit Kanban boards to a VSO account Offer: 20% off annual LeanKit subscription for Visual Studio Online.
	Generate formal requirements from Office products Offer: SmartOffice4TFS new family member: RequirementsToolkit4TFS. Get it for 30% off.  Migrate on-premise TFS and other ALM products to VSO
	Offer: Get OpsHub Quick Start Package for only US$9,999.  Test on a real device in the cloud, issues show up as Work items in VSO
	Offer: Improve Quality and Speed Up Your Mobile App Test Cycles on Real Devices in the Cloud.  Analytics Workbench hosted in Azure for all types of apps
	Offer: Our Chance at a First Impression. 30% off of PreEmptive Analytics App Launch Service.  Sync and integration of VSO with Jira and 23 other products
	Offer: Up to 85% off Tasktop Integration for TFS and VS Online.
	Trigger VSO builds of .NET and other apps in TeamCity Offer: 50% off New TeamCity Enterprise Server Licenses.
	Integrate community feedback into VSO Offer: 50% off all UserVoice plans for the 1st year.  Real-time interactive sharing of VSO backlogs, code reviews, builds, test, deployment etc.
	Offer: 2 Months FREE VS Anywhere for Visual Studio from Azure Store.
***UPDATE Dec-8 2014***

We just added another partner offer with Team Companion

Bridge the gap between stakeholders and developers.  Offer: 20% off TeamCompanion for Visual Studio Online/TFS

Whether you are an ISV who wants to integrate a product of service with Visual Studio or Visual Studio Online, or if you are a developer or customer who wants to take advantage of these great special offers, here are some links that you will find useful.

• www.visualstudio.com/integrate
• http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/explore/vso-integrations-directory-vs
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/dd347471
• www.vsipprogram.com

Thanks,

Brian