The Economic Cities and Special Zones Authority (ECZA) is a semi-government agency in Saudi Arabia that governs all the economic cities and investor zones within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ECZA needed to enable their various departments to collaborate and share knowledge across the organization easily.
They approached iSpectra to help them build their new intranet portal and community in parallel with their new Drupal 9 website.
Project Highlights
iSpectra delivered a community-based intranet portal with 100+ features that enhance communications, content management, data management, and member management.
The intranet was designed and built with the following social and engagement features in mind:
- Resource upload and download
- Content publishing and sharing
- Comments
- Polls and surveys
- Rich media libraries
- Workflows
- Events
- Forums and blog articles
- Featured news
- SMS and email notifications
About the project
Project Goals
ECZA needed to enable their various departments to collaborate and share knowledge across the organization easily. They approached iSpectra to help them build their new intranet portal and community in parallel with their new Drupal 9 website.
Project Requirements
- Design and build an intranet portal that enhances communications, content management, data management, and member management.
- Implement social and engagement features to increase member engagement and collaboration.
- Choose a Drupal powered intranet solution to integrate the community with their Drupal 9 CMS and website.
Project Outcome
iSpectra delivered a community-based intranet portal with 100+ features that enhance communications, content management, data management, and member management.
The intranet was designed and built with the following social and engagement features in mind: resource upload and download, content publishing and sharing, comments, polls and surveys, rich media libraries, workflows, events, forums and blog articles, featured news, SMS and email notifications.
Choosing a Drupal powered intranet solution made perfect sense, given that they wanted to integrate their community with their Drupal 9 CMS and website. ECZA can build a community using transparent and safe digital tools that help them own all their data without the need for 3rd parties' or vendors' support.
The intranet portal and community allow ECZA's various departments to collaborate and share knowledge easily, increasing member engagement and collaboration.
Why Drupal was chosen
Choosing a Drupal powered intranet solution made perfect sense – given that they wanted to integrate their community with their Drupal 9 CMS and website.
Faster Platform Adoption and Delivery
Open Social puts user experience and ease-of-use first — from setting up your own white label platform to growing your community engagement over time:
- Powerful base features with flexible add-ons
- Personal and ongoing support with platform set up
- Connect with the Open Social community to learn and grow
Full Control and Ownership
Built on open-source technology, ECZA's intranet community platform is easy to customize with drag-and-drop page layouts, content creation with the click of a button, and powerful extensions. They can build a community using transparent and safe digital tools that help them own all their data without the need for 3rd parties' or vendors' support.
Increased Member Engagement
All the features members need to share and communicate with each other:
- Likes, comments, private messaging, and mentions
- Rich user-profiles where members can express themselves
- Activity streams for latest news, events, comments, and other content
Technical Specifications
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