Sector(s)

Team Members

walli, b.khouy, fboulanger, intervalle

Project Team

Organizations involved

Vivalto Santé: Customer, Infrastructure and domain teams.

Dropteam: Drupal expertise, architecture, and consulting.

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Community contributions

This project is at the heart of the UI Suite initiative, co-funded and maintained by Dropteam . Contributions include:

  • Development and maintenance of modules allowing standardized integration of Design Systems in Drupal (UI Patterns 2.x, UI Styles, etc.) .
  • Promotion of the "Design Systems with Drupal" approach through numerous conferences (DrupalCon Europe, Drupal Dev Days) and articles .
  • The Vivalto Santé project serves as a major proof of concept ("Use case") validating Drupal's ability to manage complex Design Systems industrially .

Vivalto Santé, a European leader in private hospitalization, faced a fragmented, heterogeneous digital ecosystem that was costly to maintain . The group wanted to rationalize its brand image while allowing local autonomy for facilities . The project involved creating a multi-site foundation capable of managing the group's websites, hospitals, territories, specialties, and practitioners .

About the project

Goals & Requirements The main objective was to support the group's growth by resolving issues of redundant maintenance, site heterogeneity, and lack of rationalization . Key requirements included:

  • Rationalization: Unify brand image and UX .
  • Time-to-Market: Accelerate the deployment of new sites and features .
  • Interoperability: Fluid connection with business tools (Doctolib, hospital IS) .
  • Accessibility: RGAA compliance .

Project Outcome & Business Solutions Dropteam deployed a "Site Factory" (Web Component Factory) based on a centralized Design System . The architecture allows each site in the ecosystem (facilities, territories, etc.) to benefit from its own configurations while sharing a common data model and media .

Results Achieved Technical and financial results are significant:

  • Cost Reduction: Migration and maintenance costs divided by two (-30% to -50%) .
  • Productivity: +40% productivity gain for teams and -50% production time .
  • Performance: Load time divided by 3 .
  • Security: Zero front-end vulnerabilities thanks to static architecture .

Why Drupal was chosen

Drupal was chosen for its native ability to handle complex data architectures and business rules ("Greatest low-code CMS for data") . Specific reasons include:

  1. Multi-site Management: The ability to industrialize management via Domain Access to pool content and users .
  2. Design System First: Native component integration via the UI Suite initiative, allowing a shift from "Legacy theming" to component-based theming (SDC) .
  3. Security & Performance: The ability to decouple the CMS via Tome to generate static sites, eliminating PHP/SQL vulnerabilities on the front end and reducing the carbon footprint .
Vivalto Santé

Technical Specifications

Drupal version:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen
  • Domain Access: Chosen for content pooling and centralized management of the entire fleet of sites (Group, Facilities, Practitioners) from a single back-office .
  • Tome: Selected to transform Drupal into a static site generator. This serves HTML/CSS/JS files via a public CDN, ensuring total security (no exposed database), infinite scalability for traffic spikes, and a reduced carbon footprint .
  • UI Suite & SDC: Chosen to implement a "Low-code" theming approach. This allows direct mapping of Design System artifacts (Components, Icons, Styles) to Drupal plugins, ensuring perfect visual consistency and easier maintenance .