Faculty Portal for a University Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Service Offered
  • Design and development faculty portal.
  • Ongoing Maintenance.    
Benefits to the Client
  • Entire site with one vendor.
  •  On-Time maintenance.
  •  Appearance in most of the search engines.
  •  Site showcased in Harvard Gallery.
Industry
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.

Business
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.
Business
Requirements
  • 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.

Services Offered

  • Consulting
  • Design
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Go-Live Support
  • Maintenance contract

Benefits to the Client

  • GAI had a clear understanding of customer?s requirements
  • Can keep track of ongoing and completed tasks