  Modern organizations need real-time awareness about the current business
conditions and the various events that occur from multiple and heterogeneous
environments and influence their business operations. Moreover, based on
real-time awareness they need a mechanism that allows them to respond quickly
to the changing business conditions, in order to either avoid problematic
situations or exploit opportunities that may arise in their business
environment. In this paper we present BEAM, an event-driven framework that
enables awareness about the situations happening in business environments and
increases organizations responsiveness to them. We illustrate how BEAM
increases the awareness of managers about the running business processes, as
well as their flexibility by presenting a practical application of the
framework in the transportation and logistics domain.
