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 submissions.