Meet Martina Riedel, IBM Champion and a senior consultant with ReleaseTEAM, an IBM Business Partner focused on software configuration management consulting for customers of Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, and Rational Team Concert.

developerWorks recently published the results of a tech trends survey drawing on the input of the developerWorks community of IT professionals, business partners, students, and university faculty. The survey focuses on trends in the areas of business analytics, cloud computing, mobile computing, and social business. In this episode, two distinguished professors in information systems join Scott Laningham to talk about the business analytics results in the survey. Dr. David Douglas is University Professor of Information Systems in the Sam M Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Dr. Manish Agrawal is Associate Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business at the University of South Florida.

Freelance humorist and former IBMer, Tim Washer, joins developerWorks podcast host Scott Laningham for some light-hearted fun reporting on the progress of This Week on developerWorks' Billion Viewer Campaign.

In this last 2011 episode of This Week on developerWorks, John Swanson and Scott Laningham look at new dW content around the topic of security.

Todd and Scottdiscuss the IBM Tech Trends Survey that detailed input from over 4000 IT professionals, students, and academics from over 90 countries on the topics of business analytics, cloud computing, mobile, and social business.

This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I preview new site content -- the IBM Tech Trends survey, new articles on monitoring and diagnosing Java apps, using Google Chart Tools with IBM Mashup Center, creating custom jQuery mobile themes, Rational Harmony, XML data mining, and alert traffic with IBM Business Process Manager.

John and Scott are back after breaking for the rush of IOD 2011. Today they highlight new developerWorks content on project risk mitigation, the Virtual IO server command line interface, Apache Mahout, balancing openness and privacy, mobile text messaging in web apps, managing change in mainframe applications, and creating interactive maps with HTML5 microdata and jQuery.

Mychelle Mollot, Vice President WW Marketing, IBM Business Analytics talks with Scott Laningham and Todd Watson at Information on Demand 2011 about how business analytics can change the way a company competes in the marketplace.

developerWorks' Scott Laningham and IBM blogger Todd Watson share closing thoughts at the Information On Demand Global Conference 2011.

Arvind Krishna is General Manager of IBM Information Management and joined Todd and I at Information On Demand 2011 last week to talk about the conference theme of "Turning Insight Into Action," parallel lessons from the Moneyball keynote by Michael Lewis and Billy Beane, and the value to an organization of external advocacy and the IBM Champion Program in particular.