LAHORE: From right to left: Mr. Muhammad Zohaib Khan (Chairman P@SHA) and Mr. Junaid Imam (Member IT, Ministry of IT Telecom) presents the award to Mr. Umer Chaudhry (Co-founder and Managing Director Dice analytics) along with the honorable members of Dice Analytics: Miss Maliha Rafi (Head of Skills Development), Mr. Dilawar Hassan (Marketing Manager) and Mr. Habib Ulah (Head of Dice Hackerspace), at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2022 on Wednesday.
On the eve of November 2nd, in Lahore, Dice Analytics appeared at the annual P@SHA ICT Awards 2022, amassing grand admiration and praise from the IT industry for its compelling software solution: a customizable Disaster Management System that has been powering the relief efforts during times of crisis at the national level. The extreme emergency situations include: COVID-19; Lotus Attack ‘20; Monsoon Rains ‘21; Heat Wave ‘22 and Monsoon Rains ‘22.
Every year (since 2006), the Pakistan Software House Association (P@SHA) holds the industry’s biggest event; the annual ICT Award ceremony, that attracts IT companies and service providers from all over Pakistan and honors them for their unparalleled contributions in Pakistan’s information technology sector.
This year, Dice Analytics was privileged to have been nominated by the honorable P@SHA ICT Awards committee for its pioneering Disaster Management System in the Government and Citizens service category.
Inside the Award-winning Disaster Management System
Dice Analytics was awarded for its invaluable and distinctive contribution in serving the nation (1st instance during COVID-19) when it diligently produced a software solution that collected, transformed and analyzed pandemic data from all across Pakistan. Demonstrating its engineering wit, the domain experts at Dice Analytics crafted this solution such that it can be made adaptive to any kind of disaster management.
The product of the software are actionable insights that has been helping the National Command and Operations Center (NCOC) and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in concurrent decision making for providing relief efforts to the nation.
Named as National Disaster Decision Support System (NDDSS), the paradigm of this analytics platform is based on the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software that digitizes all functional processes of NDMA. By bringing enterprise’s processes over the digital, NDDSS empowered its client to closely examine disaster mitigation and recovery efforts.
As for the case of COVID-19 disaster management, the Resource Management System- RMS (a core analytics component of NDDSS) was adopted to a connected web of 4000 hospitals all across Pakistan. Taking pandemic related data (the number of patients, beds, ventilators, paramedics, and oxygen etc,) the RMS enriched this data with information from NDMA’s ERP system, and created a data-driven ecosystem within NDMA through its Dashboards and Reporting mechanism.
Dice Analytics is greatly humbled to have bestowed with P@SHA’s invaluable recognition towards its dedicated efforts of raising the bar in the IT service delivery across the whole IT sector in Pakistan.
About Dice Analytics
Dice Analytics is Pakistan’s fastest growing Business Intelligence and AI company. As a group of indigenous talent, the domain experts at Dice Analytics have supported the Government sector and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in building an enabling data-driven ecosystem.
Apart from its award-winning Disaster Management System, Dice Analytics showcases its expertise with incredible contributions in the form of other cutting edge products: QTaleem (an educational software that provides analytical insights to schools under the federal administration) and Text-to-insights (a software that uses NLP and Sentiment analysis to convert information into knowledge for the World Bank).
With their slogan of Empowering the BI ecosystem, Dice Analytics spearheads various concurrent business roles such as Trainings and Consultancy, Career Counseling and Guidance and Industry-academia collaboration.
About P@SHA
The Pakistan Software House Association- P@SHA works as a trade body to promote the IT and IT services sector of Pakistan. Like any trade association, P@SHA was created by joint efforts made by a group of software houses in Pakistan who envisioned an enabling IT ecosystem in the country, in 1992.
To turn their vision into reality, P@SHA took a delegation to the government and the two bodies set up reciprocal measures that initiated and improved policy formation, legislation and incentives for the stakeholders in the IT sectors.
At the business side, P@SHA builds an auspicious knowledge-sharing ecosystem, bridging the gap for new and experienced entrants in the market through executive-led Conferences, Events and Workshops. P@SHA is also esteemed to promote Pakistan’s IT industry at the international level through participation in trade delegations, representations at the technology exhibitions and creation of networking opportunities.
