How to compare TFS2013 on-premise and Visual Studio Online?

Question

I'm advising my company to upgrade our on-premise TFS 2008 to a newer version. As i see it, there are two options available to us: TFS 2013 (on-premise), or Visual Studio Online.

We are a small developer shop inside a larger (non-it) business, and would like to work internally and externally with a source control system. We have chosen to adopt the Microsoft stack, so other alternatives are not desired for us.

How do i compare the on-premise TFS2013 offering to Visual Studio Online? I'm concerned about costs, scaleabillty (up- and down), working with multiple parties, continuous integration builds, continuous deployment, unit- and integration tests. We develop mainly on BizTalk, WCF and some custom C# applications.

Does anyone have advise or experience comparing these two offerings?

Answer 1

The main differences:

1) VSO is always up to date.

2) VSO doesn't have a cube to pull reports from

3) You can't customize your process template in VSO

Answer 2

In my limited usage of VSOnline, i found that it does almost evrything a TFS 2013 does. Code repository- check , Build- check , Build drop folder - check , Ms build + deploy- check , agile managemnt - check, bug managemnt - check

what else would a small dev team what ?

go through this link http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/get-started/hosted-build-controller-vs#software .