SPIKE
Student Portal and Communication Platform
Wharton's SPIKE, a suite of web-based applications and services, gives students simple and integrated access to course materials, resources, information, and online services. Wharton students and staff together developed SPIKE – one of the first student intranets among business schools.
Now in its fourteenth version, the SPIKE portal combines both personal and enterprise-wide information and services.
- Student news and announcements
- Student calendar and personal course schedule
- Content delivered to custom interfaces for Web browsers, cell phones, PDAs, broadcast e-mail, RSS feeds, and large-screen plasma displays
- SMS text-messaging interface to reserve Group Study Rooms, display personal course schedules, and locate classes
- Online student "facebook"
- Financial news and weather
- Business insights from Knowledge@Wharton
Technical Platform
Software:
- Adobe ColdFusion
- Adobe ColdFusion/SMS gateway
- Adobe Flash
- Microsoft SQL Server
Hardware:
- Virtualized load-balanced cluster on IBM BladeCenter servers
- IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage area network
SPIKE Recognition
Awards
- 2004: Macromedia (now Adobe) MAX award
- 1999: CIO Magazine: CIO 50/50 award
- 1998: InfoWorld Magazine: InfoWorld 100 – ranked #5
Press
- 2006: EDUCAUSE Quarterly, "Cutting Through the Clutter: What Makes an Intranet Successful?"
- 2004 July 30: Web Developer's and Designer's Journal, "Wharton's 'Spike' Intranet Moves to its Groundbreaking X Release".
- 2002 June: Smart Business, "'Best Portal' Wharton's SPIKE"
- 1999 Dec 01: CIO Magazine, "Intranet Marketing 101: Building an intranet is one thing. Getting people to use it is another".
