Dubbed Theoris Vision the Web-software pulls together multiple enterprise data sources – such as business transactional systems, data warehouses, business intelligence (BI) tools, legacy systems – into a single Web-based view.

We like to think of Vision as a capstone application that communicates performance metrics across the enterprise, said Michael Brooks, vice president of alliances and marketing and at Indianapolis, Indiana-based Theoris.

Vision effectively automates the process of extracting metrics that executives depend on. We abstract them up to the presentation layer.

Brooks points out that unlike most other portal systems that simply move and consolidate data, Vision goes much deeper by taking a report, or a specific number in a report, and presenting it in a relevant BI context.

We can not only integrate data from BI tools like Cognos and Business Objects in the same dashboard – but also the same metric as well.

Brooks sees the ability to derive calculations from composite data sources as having a high value in merger and acquisition integration settings where typically data from each company’s system needs to be reconciled.

We can instantaneously handle composite data held across two organizations in our software.

The integration is set-up and managed by Theoris’ patent-pending VisionConnect connectivity software which transparently links into data sources and allows users to manipulate information while it’s held in the native application.

According to Brooks the ability to pull together data without programming or the need to set up a data warehouse can accelerate implementation dramatically over traditional BI dashboard or portal deployments.

Because we pull data through a dashboard layer there’s no programming and change to the underlying system isn’t required.

Brooks claims that the software can be installed in minutes, that training takes a few hours, and that companies can get a dashboard up and running in less than a day.

Pricing for Theoris Vision is $25,000 and upwards, depending on the number of users.

Theoris is still a relatively unknown quantity in the BI market despite being founded in 1984. Around 10 years ago the company opted to focus on the BI space and is now a close dashboard partner of Business Objects SA. Theoris only has eight customers so far, but Brooks believes that increased business and regulatory pressures will drive greater uptake of composite dashboard development.