News

November 3, 2008
Model Metrics Introduces CardLasso and the Lasso2GO Platform:  The First and Only Application that Automates the Capture of Business Card Data Using Your Mobile Device Camera  
CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO – November 3rd, 2008 – Today at Dreamforce 2008, salesforce.com’s annual user and developer conference, Model Metrics revealed a revolutionary cloud-computing application called CardLasso.  CardLasso, part of the Lasso2GO application suite that utilizes services from salesforce.com’s new Force.com Sites capability and Amazon Web Services, enables users to capture business card information using a mobile device camera and automates the transcription of contact data, which is automatically presented for download to the user from www.lasso2go.com. 

November 3, 2008
Model Metrics Builds Custom Application for Enrollment Rx on the Force.com Platform from Salesforce.com  
CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO – Today at Dreamforce 2008, salesforce.com’s annual user and developer conference, salesforce.com partners Model Metrics and Enrollment Rx announced a new relationship that will change the way educational institutions manage the student enrollment process.

October 28, 2008
Model Metrics Secures $2.5M in Series A Funding  
CHICAGO – Model Metrics, a leading technology and service provider in the Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service industries, today announced it has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing from private investors.  This first round of funding will be used to accelerate the development and launch of new mobile solutions for the iPhone and drive growth of core application development and implementation services for salesforce.com’s Salesforce CRM applications and Force.com Platform.

October 22, 2008
Model Metrics Opens Five New Salesforce.com Authorized Training Centers in the Midwest   
CHICAGO - Model Metrics, a leading Software-as-a-Service consulting firm and longtime salesforce.com consulting partner, has achieved authorized training center (ATC) partner status with salesforce.com and will open five new education and training centers in key markets across the Midwest. 

August 6, 2008
Chicago Tribune: Developers Answering iPhone’s Call   
CHICAGO - Apple Inc. opened its network and built App Store, and Chicago softwaremakers came, bringing new applications with them. Over at Model Metrics, a local business software developer, the 5-year-old firm is talking with outside investors for the first time to "get us to the next level," said Dave Dahlberg, a company vice president. "We’re placing a big bet on this."    

August 6, 2008
Contact Center Expert Steve Bernard Joins Model Metrics to Delivery World Class Software-as-a-Service Solutions to Enterprise and Midsize Clients 
CHICAGO – Model Metrics, one of the nation’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology and services companies, today launched Expense2GO, a new expense reporting application for the Apple iPhone. Available exclusively on the App Store, Expense2GO lets users manage business expenses from their iPhone and synchronize with online expense reporting and management with their Salesforce CRM application. 

July 10, 2008
Mobile Application Expense2GO by Model Metrics Brings Innovative Expense Management to the iPhone and Salesforce CRM
CHICAGO – Model Metrics, one of the nation’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology and services companies, today launched Expense2GO, a new expense reporting application for the Apple iPhone. Available exclusively on the App Store, Expense2GO lets users manage business expenses from their iPhone and synchronize with online expense reporting and management with their Salesforce CRM application.

May 19, 2008
Model Metrics Continues Expansion with San Francisco Office
SAN FRANCISCO – Andy Ross, a longtime salesforce.com senior manager and a founding member of salesforce.com’s corporate sales services group, has joined Model Metrics as Director of Corporate Sales. Headquartered in Chicago, Model Metrics has offices in Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis and San Francisco.

May 5, 2008
Model Metrics Blazes New Trails with Salesforce.com’s Visualforce and the iPhone
LONDON, UK and CHICAGO – The salesforce.com community, assembled in London for the Dreamforce Europe conference, today got a first look at Model Metrics’ pioneering use of the new Visualforce technology on the Force.com platform to create custom user interfaces for the Apple iPhone.

April 29, 2008
Model Metrics Presents how Software as a Service has Changed the Rules for Marketing
CHICAGO – Kevin Turner, a Principal at Model Metrics and authority on CRM adoption, today delivered his thoughts on how Software as a Service has rapidly changed how Marketing organizations do business.

April 28, 2008
Model Metrics Expands to the Southwest with Dallas Location
DALLAS – Model Metrics, one of the nation’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology and services companies, has opened a regional office in Dallas and hired Jim Mecomb, a salesforce.com and telecom expert, to lead operations.

April 14, 2008
Model Metrics Honored as the 2008 Illinois "Rising Star" by the Illinois Technology Association
CHICAGO – Model Metrics, one of the nation’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology and services companies, has been selected from among hundreds of applicants as the winner of the Illinois Technology Association (ITA)’s 2008 CityLIGHTS Rising Star award. The award honors the Illinois company that has emerged from its start-up phase to distinguish itself in the technology marketplace.