Winter 2025 Release Notes

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

Check out the What's New for a summary of the new features. Visit the Developer Community to request and vote on new features.

Platform

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

Patch updates

March 26 - Production Versions API General Availability

We promoted the Production Versions API to general availability. Use this API to promote projects from your development environment to the production environment. This is faster and more efficient than the export/import project workflow. For more information, see Production Versions API.

March 26 - Projects API General Availability

We promoted the Projects API to general availability. Use this API to create projects, make changes in a project, and publish projects to production. For more information, see Projects API.

What's new

Hide Analysis Card Information

As an author, you can now hide card information such as the title, context, and summary values to highlight key insights and help users interpret visuals more intuitively. For more information, see "Hide default card information" in Create an Analysis.

Movement Visuals Color

You can now change the color of visual items used in the Movement Breakdown and Movement Summary visuals. For more information, see Change Colors.

UI Updates

Visual enhancements to help users see and interpret key insights more effectively including:

  • Bigger numbers
  • Rounder corners
  • Grey background in analyses
  • Gradients on trendlines and sparklines for cards with small multiples
  • Dynamic spacing for card headers
  • Traffic lighting
  • Table visual

Note: If you are interested, please contact your Partner Success Manager.

Allow Email Schedules to Over 1000 Recipients General Availability

You can now send analysis emails to over 1000 recipients.

Email Push Time of Day Setting General Availability

When scheduling an analysis email, you can set the time when emails are processed for delivery. This helps schedulers align delivery times with data loads and regular business hours. For more information, see step 4 in Create an Email Push Schedule.

Data Flow Visualization Enhancements

  • You can now focus on a specific property for a target, such as EmployeeID in the Employee subject. This shows the source columns, mapped properties, and rules that populate data for the property.
  • You can now see static map lookup mappings as a new column between the source and the mapping.
  • When focused on a mapping, we moved the mapped properties to display below the mapping. Previously, the mapped properties were below the event table.

For more information, see Data Flow Visualization.

Note: Data is required for this feature.

Improved Overlay Loading and Debugging

Debugging overlays in Studio is now easier and more consistent with other design objects. You now have detailed access to the overlay key property to manage metrics, dimensions, concepts, and calculated properties. You can also preview overlay contents to verify data loading accuracy. For more information, see Overlay Security and Preview.

Salesforce and ServiceNow® Connectors General Availability

You can now use the connectors to bring your work data into Visier to drive insights into Sales and Support teams. For more information, see Salesforce and ServiceNow®.

Static Map Lookup Mapping

We improved the static map lookup mapping workflow to make it easier and faster for you to generate lookup mapping extraction rules for subject member ID properties. For more information, see "Connect subject member ID property to lookup" in Add a Mapping.

Filter Function VFL

We've added a new filter function to the Visier Formula Language (VFL) called dynamicUserOwnedOrgs. You can use hierarchy filter functions to include or exclude records from your query. For example, you can exclude employees belonging to a specific department from your query results. For more information, see “Filter” in Visier Formula Language (VFL).

Visier Reporting

Introducing Visier Reporting, a reports tool that allows you to efficiently collect, organize, and present data in a clear, tabular format. The ability to generate customizable reports enhances collaboration and transparency across teams. Reports transform complex data into easy-to-understand visualizations that drive smarter business decisions and improve overall efficiency. Reports work with Visier's security model to ensure users only see data they are permitted to see. For more information, see Reports.

Note:  

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

  • Configuration is required for this feature.

Non-Versioned Security

Non-versioned security eliminates the release of new production versions for security changes in your organization. If your organization frequently changes permissions or data access sets, non-versioned security is a good option to prevent hundreds or thousands of new production versions that overwhelm your tenant's version control. For more information, see “Non-versioned security” in Permissions API Overview.

Note: Limited Availability This feature is in limited availability. If you are interested, please contact your Partner Success Manager.

APIs

What's new

API Reference Documentation Update

Visier's documentation site has a new and improved API reference. Previously, each API collection had a separate reference. Now, you can easily find any API on the same page. The new layout has everything you need to call Visier APIs, complete with sample requests and responses to help you form API calls and understand the response. For more information, see Visier API Reference.

Data Model API

You can now use the Data Model API to create properties, delete properties, and update properties. For more information, see “Data Model” in Visier API Reference.

Reporting API

You can use this API to create, retrieve, delete, duplicate, and download reports. Creating a report using the API allows you to determine the structure such as a title and description. To edit other contents of the report, such as columns and group bys, navigate to the Reports room in Visier. For more information, see Reporting API.

Note: Alpha This API is in alpha. While in alpha, APIs may change in a breaking way without notice; functionality may be removed, and no deprecation notices will be issued. If you are interested in using this API, please contact your Partner Success Manager (PSM).

Tenants API

You can now create a batch of analytic tenants in a single API call. For more information, see “Add analytic tenants” in Visier API Reference.

Assign Data Access to Analytic Objects That Don't Exist Yet

Streamline your data security workflow by updating population and data access ahead of time through the Permissions API before Visier receives the data or before the objects exist in Visier. Previously, this process was only available for properties and dimensions. Now, you can also assign data access to analytic objects before they exist in Visier. For more information, see "Assign access for data columns that aren't in Visier yet" in Permissions API Overview.

Permissions API and Users V2 API General Availability

Announcing the general availability of the Permissions API and Users V2 API, which allow you to use Visier APIs to create or delete permissions and update existing permissions by changing the capabilities, content packages, and data security objects assigned to a permission, and create, update, and delete users in bulk. For more information, see Permissions API and Users API.

Visier People

This section covers the changes to the content of the Visier People solution.

VP: Essentials

What's new

Filtering Target Data

We’ve made the following improvements so you will see more personalized data when you are comparing targets to actuals:

  • Updated the formula of the My Reports selection concept with a new VFL function called dynamicUserOwnedOrgs. The updated formula will allow the filter to drill further into the organization hierarchy, and handle organizational changes over time more effectively. With this update, it will be easier to distribute personalized data to a broader management population.
  • Shared the Supervisory Hierarchy with the Finance Budget Headcount and Finance Budget TCOW overlays.

Note: If you have previously customized the Supervisory Hierarchy dimension, you may not inherit this update based on your blueprint inheritance. To find out whether your organization has granular or non-granular Blueprint inheritance, contact your Client Success Manager.

Headcount Cost What-if Model

We've added a new What-if model called Headcount Cost. Use the Headcount Cost model to generate a forecast of direct compensation. This model uses budgeted compensation as an input, and incorporates historical actuals for assumptions around headcount and cost changes. It provides a simple and comprehensible way to generate approximate forecasts of future headcount costs.

You can access the Headcount Cost What-if model in Explore by selecting the Projected Headcount Cost projection metric.

Time in Role

We’ve added the following new objects so you can analyze the average amount of time, in months, that active employees have had their current job name:

  • Time in Role metric and calculated property
  • Time in Role Range dimension

Tenure Filtering Removed

We have turned off the filterable toggle for the Tenure calculated property by default. Instead, use the Tenure Range dimension as it has the capability to use as a filter or group-by, and additionally select certain defined range groups.

Bug fixes

129499 - Updated Recent Employee Metric Display Names

We've renamed the following metrics to clarify their calculations:

  • Recent Employee Time Since Promotion renamed to Time Since Promotion Active in Period
  • Recent Employee Predicted Risk of Resignation renamed to Predicted Risk of Resignation Active in Period
  • Recent Employee Compa Ratio renamed to Compa Ratio Active in Period

VP: Talent Acquisition

What's new

Recruiting Leader Suite

We’ve added persona-based analysis templates that align with your recruiting stakeholders and answer their key questions to elevate recruiting delivery. Check out the following analyses in the Advanced Talent Acquisition and Optimize Talent Acquisition Guidebooks:

  • Recruiter Insights: Explore daily insights on the status of your workload, requisitions, and the applicant pipeline.
  • Hiring Manager Insights: Explore insights on your current requisitions and forecasted outcomes and timelines.
  • Recruiting Manager Insights: Explore insights on the progress and risks associated with your recruitment team.
  • Business Unit Leader - Recruitment Overview: Explore insights on the progress and possible risks of your recruiter team.
  • HR Leadership Teams - Recruitment Overview: Explore insights on the key achievements and risks of your recruiter team.
  • Discover More Advanced Recruiting Insights: Find valuable insights about your recruiting pipeline.

New Applicants

We’ve added the following new objects so you can analyze whether or not an applicant is new to your hiring pipeline:

  • New Applicants in Period calculated property
  • New Applicant selection concept

Datasets and Enrichments

What's new

Updates to Visier's Job Taxonomy

The job taxonomy has been enhanced with 181 new jobs, including updates from recent revisions to the ESCO and O*NET taxonomies. In addition, over 800 job descriptions have been updated.

Visier Benchmarks

What's new

New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Trend

We’ve added measured values for Q3 2024.

Visier Benchmarks Trends Documentation Update

We’ve updated the metric explanations for Visier Benchmark Trends to explain how the Best Fit function works in the metric formula.

Summary of dataset

The Visier Benchmarks dataset was last updated February 2025.

  • Benchmark values available: 267,244,278.
  • Employee records in dataset: 17,875,043.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Trends:

  • Measured values from Q1 2019 to Q3 2024.
  • Extrapolated values from Q4 2024 to Q3 2025.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Reports:

  • Measured values from 2017 to 2023.
  • Extrapolated values for 2024 and 2025.