Winter 2024 Release Notes

Discover the new features, improvements, and bug fixes for the latest release.

Platform

This section covers the changes to Visier's Real-Time People Data Platform.

What's new

Dashboard Layout

You can now choose different layouts when authoring an analysis:

  • The Narrative layout has a narrower canvas that is optimal for analyses that tell a story or educate users with lots of text describing the data, metrics, and visuals. The Narrative layout remains the default layout.
  • The Dashboard layout has a wider canvas allowing you to fit more data and visuals on the screen. This new layout is optimal for analyses that show the most important KPIs that help fuel decisions made by business leaders.

As part of this update, we’ve added new sizing options for Text and Header cards. These cards are available in half width and full width.

Suggested Dimensions

The amount of dimensions that can be used for filtering can be overwhelming for new users. To help viewers make faster and better business decisions, authors can now add a list of relevant filters for an analysis.

Improvements to Distribution Visual

The Distribution Visual has been redesigned to look more like a traditional box and whisker plot. You can also now add group bys or comparisons to compare distributions across groups. For example, compare Compa Ratio for different genders across your organizational hierarchy.

Power BI Updates

We added the following features to Visier’s Power BI plugin.

  • Limited Availability This feature is in limited availability. If you are interested, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

  • Additional logging capability for debugging purposes.
  • Freeform JSON query functionality for aggregate and list queries. You can specify a standard JSON query for Visier's Data Query API to retrieve results.

Tableau Connector

Users with data access can now take data out of Visier directly into Tableau. Users familiar with Tableau can retrieve Visier data through a plugin for use in Tableau.

  • Limited Availability This feature is in limited availability. If you are interested, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

  • Data is required for this feature.

Improvements to Connector Workflow

We overhauled the data in connector workflow to improve efficiency for users. You can now set up data in connectors from start to finish in a project and test your implementation before pushing it to production.

Column Melting for Mappings

We added the ability to “melt” multiple columns together in mappings. With column melting, you can combine columns into a single column to assist in mapping source data to properties in Visier. For example, your Compensation source data might have columns for Salary, Bonus, and Allowance, however, Visier expects a column for Compensation Type. With column melting, you can melt Salary, Bonus, and Allowance together to map to the Compensation Type property in Visier.

  • Data is required for this feature.

Jobs Enhancements

We improved the workflow and help descriptions for running and scheduling jobs to better explain the options available for running jobs.

Concept Creation Enhancements

Administrators can now create concepts in the Concepts room. Previously, you could only create concepts after navigating to an analytic object.

Convert a Selection Concept from Member to Calculated

We improved the process of converting an existing selection concept from member selection to calculated. With this enhancement, you no longer have to re-select the concept’s associated analytic object in the conversion process; the analytic object is remembered.

Dimension Creation Enhancements

Administrators can now conveniently create dimensions through a single-page dialog and see an alert if there is no available data for a dimension.

Property Creation Enhancements

Administrators can now conveniently create properties through a single-page dialog and see an alert if there is no available data for a property.

Bug fixes

110021 - Improved Chart Results on Organization Visual

Previously, when searching for a specific employee in the Organization visual, you would only see the employee and their reports. To provide better context, you will now see the employee’s managers and peers alongside their reports.

113238 - Data Exports and Default Filters

We fixed an issue where deleted default filters were being reapplied to Data Exports when they were shared with other users. As a result, users could not consume the Data Export because they did not have access to the analysis population as defined by the default filter.

114171 - Overall Member Naming in Spreadsheets and Data Exports

When downloading data as a spreadsheet or consuming a Data Export, the Overall member will no longer appear as Root. We also fixed an issue where Root appeared twice in the exported results.

114342 - Duration Conversion

To make the time context easier to read, we’ve updated the way we convert durations. For example, durations longer than 12 months will now be converted to years. So a duration of 48 months will now be displayed as 4 years. You will see this change anywhere that time is displayed including visual titles, analysis cards, filter tokens, and tooltips.

115236 - Plus Sign in Emails and Usernames

Emails and usernames that contain the plus sign (+) will now be accepted when creating a user.

APIs

Data Query API

  • You can now use an option to return results in multidimensional expression (MDX) format; for example, [North America].[United States].[California].
  • You can now use an option to dynamically determine the time to use in a query based on the date ranges with available data for the query’s source (a metric or metrics, formula, or analytic object).

Direct Data Intake API

The Direct Data Intake API now supports extension tables to allow loading additional data for objects that already contain data from other data loading methods. For example, if you use SFTP to load Employee data, you can now use the Direct Data Intake API to load additional Employee data that isn’t loaded through SFTP.

Permissions API

We now offer an API to programmatically manage your permissions in Visier. With this API, you can retrieve existing permission capabilities, content packages, data security objects, and permissions to find out what exists in your Visier solution already. You can also create or delete permissions, and update existing permissions by changing the capabilities, content packages, and data security objects assigned to a permission.

  • Limited Availability This feature is in limited availability. If you are interested, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

Third-Party Cookie Deprecation

Google is deprecating third-party cookies. Visier used third-party cookies for session management when embedding Visier in other applications. We now offer an alternative to third-party cookies that employs custom headers for requests to Visier's servers, providing enhanced security and control over token lifecycles. This adjustment ensures a more resilient integration framework by minimizing dependencies on browsers like Chrome. Failing to adopt these changes will result in users being unable to access analytics in Visier where you've embedded it in your applications.

Datasets and Enrichments

What's new

Additional Jobs and Job Types in Visier People’s Job/Skill Taxonomy

As part of our continued expansion of our job architecture, we’ve added more manager, product manager, and human resources jobs. You will also find more job titles for the manufacturing industry to help you discover the most relevant and accurate job titles for your existing employees.

Patch updates

March 13 - Community Career Paths Data

We’ve updated Visier’s Community Career Paths dataset, covering the period from January 2021 to December 2023. This dataset supports Visier's Career Paths and Sourcing Paths visualizations, which provide insight into job transitions.

  • Additional Purchase This feature requires an additional cost. If you are interested, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

Visier Benchmarks

What's new

New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Trends

We've added measured values for Q3 2023.

Summary of dataset

The Visier Benchmarks dataset was last updated February 2024.

  • Benchmark values available: 256,187,226.
  • Employee records in dataset: 21,552,263.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Trends:

  • Measured values from Q1 2018 to Q3 2023.
  • Extrapolated values from Q4 2023 to Q3 2024.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Reports:

  • Measured values from 2017 to 2022.
  • Extrapolated values for 2023 and 2024.