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Founded in 2001, Scrum Alliance® is the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community. Scrum Alliance is a nonprofit association that has certified more than 750,000 practitioners worldwide. Its vision is to help “Transform the World of Work” with a mission to guide and inspire individuals, leaders, and organizations with practices, principles, and values that create workplaces that are joyful, prosperous, and sustainable. For more information, please visit scrumalliance.org.

Through Scrum Alliance, you have access to a world of learning and resources that will help you succeed with Scrum in the software development industry and beyond.

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PMI Islamabad Pakistan Chapter (PMI IPC) is the founding chapter of Project Management Institute USA in Pakistan with over 150 members and partners, holding key positions within their organizations. Project Management Institute (PMI) USA, is the world's leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project, program and portfolio management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI delivers value for more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world through global advocacy, collaboration, education and research. PMI advances careers, improves organizational success and further matures the profession of project management through its globally recognized standards, certifications, resources, tools, academic research, publications, professional development courses, and networking opportunities. It has more than 700,000 members and credential holders (as of June, 2015).

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Founded in 2013, Smart IS is an IT consulting partner, having expertise in various technologies and industries. Our long-term customer relationships are based on trust, innovation, collaboration and global perspective with a local focus. Our consultants provide strategic leadership and continuous support for the numerous services we offer and work to maximize the overall value of our customer’s technology and IT investments.

Theory : Collaborate + Innovate = Perform.

We initiate and cultivate this combination of collaboration and innovation to deliver a solution that performs beyond expectations and provides lasting value.

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Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA) was initiated by a number of software houses in an attempt to create a functional trade association for the IT industry in Pakistan. Aiming to protect the rights of its members; P@SHA lobbied with the government to initiate policies and create an environment that would attract more firms to join the industry. Over the course of the last fifteen years, P@SHA has broadened its scope to include other IT-enabled services companies such as Internet Service Providers, Call Centers etc.

Today 500+ companies are active members of P@SHA, thus demonstrating how in the long run P@SHA has achieved its aim to help firms establish themselves by providing assistance to help them gain access to potential clients, locally and internationally.

P@SHA acts as a voice of the industry. Over the years it has dealt with issues that no company could manage single-handedly; such as providing input on policies, legislation, and incentives related to the industry, for organizations in the IT industry. Sponsored career events and salary surveys are also conducted regularly to assist in the growth of a dynamic sector.

P@SHA has made consistent efforts to ensure that the right policy frameworks are employed for continued growth and development. The Government is also being encouraged to act as a facilitator in creating a certain consistency in growth rates. Efforts to promote Pakistan’s IT industry internationally are being channeled through trade and technical delegations sent to all corners of the world.

P@SHA has gained international recognition by having won several awards in the Asia Pacific ICT awards. Pakistani companies are involved in leading-edge work, thereby helping the software; services and outsourced industry grow at an enormous pace.

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Contour Software, a PSEB, PASHA, KCCI & LCCI member, was founded in Karachi in 2010.

While groundwork for its inception started as early as 2008 in Toronto, with pilot projects performed by the parent company over an 18 month period in order to prove the concept, Constellation’s acquisition of a UK-based PLC culminated in the launch of Contour.

While the UK acquisition had had a small team in Karachi since 2007, Contour’s birth resulted in a rapid expansion to various other divisions' needs. What started with a dozen employees in Karachi, has grown to a 650 employee organization in less than 10 years, with offices in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad.

Constellation Software Inc. was formed in 1995, and became publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2006. Constellation is a rapidly growing conglomerate of vertical market software (VMS) companies; each focused upon dominating its respective market niche. Constellation’s growth is based on a simple strategy: identify promising VMS firms; acquire them; and then integrate them into the Constellation family while building on their fundamental strengths to help them become world class organizations. Today, CSI is the largest Canadian software company by revenues and market cap, has out-performed the FAANG stocks since its IPO in 2006, and is acknowledged as the global Top Strategic Acquirer of Software companies, 2017 onwards.

Contour continues to seek out bright and experienced talent, to fuel our organic and inorganic growth-fueled requirements. Explore & Apply here: http://contour-software.com/careers/

Software for Life!

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Pakistan Software Testing Board (PSTB) is dedicated to promotion of software quality/testing activities and standards in Pakistan. It is the Pakistan national member board of International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB). The prestigious forum oversees the accreditation of professional software engineers, trainers, and training institutes for ISTQB certifications and represent the interests of Pakistan within ISTQB.

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OPEN Islamabad is a chapter of OPEN which is a global network of Pakistani entrepreneurs and professionals. OPEN Islamabad got a charter in 2014. Since then it has emerged as one of the most vibrant chapters of the OPEN community. Some of the key insights about OPEN Islamabad are given below.

Established In 2014 | 30+Charter Members | 200+ Associate Members | 5000+ Subscribers | 60+ Events

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WomenInTechPK is a nonprofit community initiative to bring and retain more women in the tech ecosystem. We offer a platform where members can freely discuss professional and career-related issues, seek advice and opportunities, find mentors, and forge organizational alliances and individual collaborations. We also arrange offline networking events, conferences, and meet-ups with focused agendas to benefit the community. We run various programs and projects to help improve gender parity in tech. Our goal is to help build individual and personal connections where women can formulate strategies toward creating a more diversified and inclusive environment in Pakistan for women technologists.

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CareCloud, Inc. brings disciplined innovation to the business of healthcare. Our suite of technology-enabled solutions helps clients increase financial and operational performance, streamline clinical workflows, and make better business and care decisions. More than 40,000 providers across the United States count on CareCloud to help them improve patient care while reducing administrative burdens and operating costs. Services and solutions include revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health record (EHR), business intelligence, telehealth, and patient experience management (PXM). CareCloud is headquartered in Somerset, NJ.

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Established in 2006, Discretelogix is a technology oriented IT firm that provides wide range of software solutions to ever growing clientele across the globe. Discretelogix has 70+ team members and served more than 400 clients worldwide. We provide wide range of services to businesses and consumers across the globe, maintaining an unrelenting focus on quality service and customer satisfaction. We as a service providers listen to what you want to accomplish and work next to you to reach your goals. Through proven competencies in web development, mobile apps development, game development, web designing, eCommerce solutions, open source customization, strategy & branding and internet marketing, we help our clients to increase revenue, reduce costs, mitigate risk and drive profitability.