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By: David Lafferty, EVP and CIO, Tidewell Hospice What was the motivating factor behind your business's move to the cloud?  We needed a solution where we could focus on our core competency without burdening IT staff with the day to day requirements of hardware and software, let alone the capital costs. Secondly, we wanted to … read the whole post

Over the past year, there’s no denying that we, as a company, have gone through some major changes. It was bound to happen since we’re in the business of helping our customers make the transition to social enterprises; but it’s happened to us too, and we’re not so sure it’s a good fit. Honestly, we … read the whole post

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we thought we’d take a moment to profess what we love about the cloud. After all, if it wasn’t for the cloud, we wouldn’t be here! Here’s why we think you should love the cloud too…

As 2011 comes to a close, we at Model Metrics are very proud of our accomplishments over the last 12 months, including, but not limited to the introduction of Model FX, the first cloud design lab, and our rapidly growing Social Enterprise and Mobile practices.

Check out two new case studies from AH Holdings and Standard Register on Chatter deployments we recently completed. They are great examples of using social enterprise technology to improve your business. AH Holdings, a growing conglomerate of healthcare support solutions companies, worked with Model Metrics to deploy Chatter for better knowledge sharing among its highly … read the whole post

Today's gamers include millions of Americans of all ages and backgrounds (72% of all American households play computer or video games according to the Entertainment Software Association) and the number is skyrocketing. Why should you care? Because gamification is making its way into enterprise solutions such as Salesforce CRM, and the aforementioned gamers are your … read the whole post

It is with great sadness that our team at Model Metrics recognizes the passing of a true innovator in the technology world, Steve Jobs. Merriam-Webster defines genius as possessing "extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity," and we certainly couldn't say it better than that. Mr. Jobs started Apple Computer in 1976 in … read the whole post

Zimmer is a worldwide leader in providing medical devices that improve the quality of life for people worldwide. To that end, they wanted to arm their sales team with the latest sales materials such as videos, powerpoints, pdf documents, and make them available on iPads. Watch this powerful presentation from the 2011 Dreamforce conference and … read the whole post

Congratulations to our customer Ingram Micro for receiving the 2011 CIO 100 Award from IDG’s CIO Magazine. They won the prestigious award based on the innovation and success of the Ingram Micro Cloud website (www.ingrammicrocloud.com), which we're proud to say we helped to design, develop and deploy. For more info, check out our press release.

As we first saw reported by Engadget yesterday (and soon by many, many others) Apple has lifted its development ban on third-party platforms. This of course, is big news because Apple had once infamously blocked the use of those platforms to create apps for the iPhone and iPad.  Why would we care so much at … read the whole post