Faculty Portal for a University Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
ABOUT THE CLIENT
The customer is a huge private, non-profit university from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It takes a student-centered approach to education, aiming to achieve international standards in research.
THE PROBLEM
- Client did not have any part of their website show-casing world-class faculty.
- Faculty required to show academic credentials and participation.
- Repository to disseminate details of research papers, both past and ongoing.
THE BUSINESS REQUIREMENT
- The pages had to be organized based on colleges in the University.
- The entire system had to maintained by external agency, since university did not have qualified internal resource.
- Integrate well with existing system.
- Faculty should be able to manage and maintain their own profiles.
gai-PROPOSED SOLUTION
- Dedicated a team of Drupal UI experts to build site as per client specification.
- Another team was formed from server maintenance group to manage the production server.
- The server support team started keeping regular backups.
- Drupal development team to enhance the site as per the client's requirements.