This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second
International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise BIRTE 2008 held
in Auckland New Zealand in August 2008 in conjunction with VLDB 2008 the International
Conference on Very Large Data Bases. The keynote talk and the 10 revised full papers presented
were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers discuss the major
facets of business intelligence for the real-time enterprise focusing on models and concepts
architectures case-studies and applications of and technologies for real-time enterprise
business intelligence.
