The BPM (Business Process Management) Conference series has the ambition to be the premier forum for researchersin the area of process-awareinformation systems.It has a recordfor attracting contributions in innovative researchofthe highest quality related to all aspects of business process management including theory, frameworks, methods, techniques, architectures, and empirical ?ndings. BPM 2009 was the 7th instantiation of this series. It took place in Ulm, G- many, September 8-10, 2009, organized by the Institute of Databases and Inf- mation Systems of the University of Ulm. This volume...

In todayis competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data to understand how the business is performing, to predict outcomes and trends, and to improve the effectiveness of business processes underlying business operations has become cri- cal. The traditional approach to reporting is no longer adequate, users now demand easy-to-use intelligent platforms and applications capable of analyzing real-time bu- ness data to provide insight and actionable information at the right time. The end goal is to improve the enterprise performance by better and timelier decision making, - abled by...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2012, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2012, in conjunction with VLDB 2012, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. The BIRTE workshop series provides a forum to discuss and advance the science and engineering enabling real-time business intelligence and the novel applications that build on these foundational techniques. This volume contains ten research papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 13...