Sector(s)
Taibah University, headquartered in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, is one of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s leading public universities. With more than two decades of academic excellence, Taibah University serves tens of thousands of students, faculty members, and researchers across multiple campuses and disciplines.
In their mission to enhance digital services, accessibility, and unified communication across all university units, Taibah University embarked on a complete digital transformation of their online presence.
Goal
The project aimed to build a modern and unified digital presence for Taibah University, fully aligned with the university’s new brand identity. This included adopting and applying Saudi Arabia’s official Platforms Code Design System across the entire digital interface and components. A key objective was to establish a centralized Drupal multisite ecosystem that seamlessly connects more than 180 colleges, centers, deanships, and university units under one governance framework. The initiative focused on delivering a smooth and secure content and data migration from the legacy platform while enabling a unified single sign-on experience across all user portals.
Solution Delivered
Sprintive designed and built a fully integrated, scalable Drupal ecosystem for Taibah University, including:
- Full implementation of the new brand identity
- Simultaneous launch of the new portal and brand announcement
- Adoption of the Saudi unified digital design system (Platforms code), applied to interface, structure, and components
- Development of 180+ subsites connected and managed under one Drupal platform
- Centralized sign-in system for all users
- Data migration from the old website to the new digital platform
- Integration of Musaed accessibility tool, providing equal digital access for all users
- Modern, responsive user experience optimized for students, faculty, and administrators
Conclusion
Taibah University’s digital transformation represents one of the most comprehensive education web platform rollouts in the region. By combining Drupal’s powerful multisite capabilities with the official Saudi Platforms Code Design System and modern accessibility best practices, Sprintive delivered a future-ready digital foundation that empowers the university community and supports Vision 2030 goals for digital innovation and education excellence.
Sprintive has selected Drupal as the foundation of Taibah University’s new digital ecosystem for its:
- Scalability to serve a large academic institution with 180+ unit websites
- Flexibility to adopt the new national design system (Saudi Platforms Code)
- Enterprise-grade security for government & education standards
- Robust editorial experience for distributed content teams
- Multisite architecture, enabling autonomy for departments while maintaining governance
- Extensive Arabic support and accessibility capabilities
Drupal provided the ideal open-source platform to power a unified academic digital experience at scale.
Technical Specifications
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