The Metora Story: Visionary Leadership in Military, IT, & AI
Witnessing pervasive IT project failures and the untapped potential of AI, Dee Anthony founded Metora Solutions to bridge the critical gap between strategic intent and measurable outcomes.
Dee Anthony: Three Decades of IT Excellence
With over 32 years of IT consulting expertise and 25+ years of distinguished service in Navy C4ISR, Dee Anthony brings unparalleled real-world experience to complex IT project validation. His career spans the evolution of enterprise technology—from pioneering secure data transmission systems in 1988 to leading AI-driven automation initiatives at ISG.
Dee's unique perspective comes from hands-on experience across every level of IT operations: from midnight infrastructure deployments aboard naval vessels to orchestrating multi-million-dollar enterprise procurements. His tenure with industry leaders including Vanstar & Inacom, Collabera, META Group now Gartner, and ISG has positioned him at the forefront of digital transformation challenges facing today's organizations.
Each role built upon the last, creating a unique perspective on what makes IT projects succeed—and more importantly, what causes them to fail. This cumulative expertise led to an inevitable conclusion: the market needed an independent validation service that could prevent costly project failures before they happen.
Enter Metora Solutions—where three decades of hard-won experience meets cutting-edge validation methodologies.This extensive background gives Dee firsthand insight into the systemic issues that plague IT projects—and more importantly, how to prevent them before they derail budgets and timelines.
The catalyst for Metora was clear: over the years and with the creation of hundreds of plans for Cloud, Digital Workplace / Future of Work, and enterprise initiatives, Dee saw recurrent costly project overruns, inefficient analysis and design cycles or faulty experience, and credibility gaps. While Dee's knowledge is very broad and deep - an "M" person if ever there was one - He realized these issues demanded an independent, data-driven approach, and here we are. Dee's two favorite mottos are: (1) "Inspect what you expect" (2) "The purpose of the machine should be the outcome desired." - Dan Miller
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Early successes with key partnerships quickly validated this approach, demonstrating significant cost savings and enhanced decision-making for clients.
Today, Metora stands as a trusted partner to enterprises, federal agencies, and professional practices.
Building Tomorrow's IT Solutions: The Evolution to Metora
Throughout his distinguished career, Dee has consistently anticipated and shaped the future of enterprise technology. At Inacom, he pioneered online collaboration and directory services before they became industry standards. With Collabera, he built and managed an enterprise infrastructure, security, and process optimization team. His strategic insights at META Group and Gartner helped craft cloud computing, Digital Workplace, and IoT offerings and methodologies. His recent innovations at ISG, including the Future of Work and IT Project Labor Benchmarking, have set new industry benchmarks by creating Advisor-led AI-assisted ecosystems. Just in the last year, he has personally validated the labor and risk aspects of over 100 IT project plans, ranging from megalithic battery management systems for utilities to SAP and Oracle to projects as simple as ADA compliance.