Fall 2021 Release Notes

Discover the new features, improvements, and bug fixes that were included in this release.

Platform

This section covers the changes to the platform.

New features

Analysis visual refresh: We’ve updated the analysis design to improve the visual consistency and user experience. The changes to typography, spacing, and alignment make analyses easier to read and understand. You also get more formatting options for the Text card including text alignment and paragraph styles. We’ve added an h2 style for subheadings.

Automatically update analyses to the latest complete non-month period: When making an analysis dynamic and setting it to update automatically to the latest complete time period, the chart cards will align with the selected granularity. The data in the analysis will update to reflect the most recent day, week, quarter, month, or year that has completed.

Embed multiple visualizations: We’ve added the ability to embed more than one visualization per page in your target environments.

Improved export experience: We’ve improved the performance of exports to provide you with a consistent and reliable experience when downloading large analyses to PDF and PowerPoint. As part of this change, we’ve made landscape the default orientation of the PDF export. In addition, text elements such as the visual title, analysis context, and Info panel can now be edited in the PowerPoint export.

Send analysis emails to external users: You can now schedule and deliver analysis emails to external users who don’t have a Visier account. External users will see content that is based on the sender's security settings, applied default context, dynamic filters, and user preferences such as display currency. If you're the sender, external users will see the same data you'll see.

To enable this feature, contact Visier Technical Support.

Show chart description on analysis card: To provide readers with additional guidance, you can show the chart description on the analysis card. The description can be displayed above or below the visual or metric summary.

Drill path improvements: We’ve updated the styling of the drill path token to clearly indicate that you can drill up by clicking the breadcrumb links. Additionally, clicking on the drill path token will reveal the entire drill path instead of opening the Filter picker.

Members section in Info panel: We've added a Members section to the Insights tab in the Info panel that allows you to see the people behind your data points if there are five or fewer members in the population.

Synchronize metric axes: When using the Side by side & difference and Columns comparison views in a Breakdown, you can now synchronize the metric axes of the bar charts that appear in the visual so they use the same horizontal scale. This will make the datasets easier to compare and help users understand the differences in magnitude between the charts.

Flexible groupings for the Table visual: When grouping by an attribute that has multiple levels, such as Location Hierarchy, you can now select the specific levels to include in the Table visual. For example, you can show data at the State level or the City level.

Support for employee photos in the Breakdown visual: Employee photos will appear in the Breakdown visual when the following criteria are met:

Your organization has uploaded employee photos
The visual is grouped by Full Name
The visual shows a maximum of 10 to 15 data items

Edit color palettes in Studio: Administrators can now manage and edit the color palettes provided by Visier in Studio.

Large dimension search: If enabled, users can search for dimension members in dimensions with over 300,000 members. Please note that if you enable large dimension search, Visier’s initial load time is slower.

Configuration is required for this feature.

More internal comparisons: We now support multiple internal comparisons per subject. This means you can have separate internal comparisons for different content, such as internal comparisons focused on compensation or diversity and inclusion.

Configuration is required for this feature.

Predictions improvements: We’ve improved the performance of our predictions algorithm. However, the models will take longer to regenerate (up to 7 days) when you reconfigure the included employee properties.

Amazon S3 data connector: We now support direct data retrieval from Amazon S3. To send S3 data to Visier, you can either provide access to an S3 bucket or target a Visier-managed S3 bucket.

This capability is not generally available to all customers until a future release. If you are interested in this capability, please contact your Client Success Manager (CSM). If you are unsure who your CSM is, please create a technical support case through the Visier Customer Portal. Visier reserves the right to limit the number of customers participating in the limited availability period.

Email notifications for failed data validation: Administrators will now receive a detailed email report if files or records are uploaded to Visier that do not meet the data requirements. This allows you to identify and resolve data load issues quickly and efficiently.

Configuration is required for this feature.

Support for event and multi-value properties for aggregate thresholds: You can now set individual override values for event properties and multi-value properties associated with a subject to hide aggregate values for small populations.

Data model and query APIs:

We added the data type ListQueryExecutionOptions. This allows you to define optional instructions to execute a list query, such as the calendar type and the number of results to return.
We removed the batch aggregate action to reduce the risk of performance issues. To query aggregate data, you can instead use the aggregate action, which provides similar querying functions with better scalability and performance.
This capability is not generally available to all customers until a future release. If you are interested in this capability, please contact your Client Success Manager (CSM). If you are unsure who your CSM is, please create a technical support case through the Visier Customer Portal. Visier reserves the right to limit the number of customers participating in the limited availability period.

Visier People

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

Organization

What's new

Career path metrics and dimensions: New metrics and dimensions to analyze the career path of your employees.

Time in Job Family
Time in Current Career Level
Time in Job Family Range
Internal Job Experience Range
Time in Current Career Level Range
Time in Current Pay Level Range

Standardized occupations: An automated service that allows you to match job names within your organization to standardized names and hierarchies such as SOC-O*NET. This data enrichment saves you the time and effort of having to standardize the various job names across your organization on your own. You can add or edit the matches between your organization's job names and the standardized job names, as desired, in the solution experience.

Configuration is required for this feature.

Standardized locations: An automated service that takes location information and maps it to a standard location hierarchy defined and maintained by Visier. The hierarchy has the following levels: Region, Country, State, County, City. You can correct the matches between your organization's locations and the standardized locations as desired.

Configuration is required for this feature.

Emsi labor market information: We've added the ability to onboard external labor market information to help your organization optimize recruiting, retention, and compensation. This will allow you to compare your employees to the norms in the labor markets in which you operate and see how your HR department is performing against other organizations that are competing for the same talent.

Labor market data requires a paid subscription from Emsi and additional onboarding services from Visier.
Data is required for this feature.

Emsi Standard Occupational Hierarchy display name update: We’ve renamed the Emsi Standard Occupational Hierarchy to SOC Hierarchy to reflect that the hierarchy is based on the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

Majority concept display name update: We’ve renamed the Majority concept to Majority (US) to reflect that the calculation is based on US ethnicity categories.

Average Time in Current Pay Level metric display name update: We’ve renamed the Average Time in Current Pay Level metric to Time in Current Pay Level to make it consistent with the naming of other metrics with similar formulas.

Diversity metrics and attributes in Drivers visuals: Analyze the following diversity metrics in the Drivers visual to see the groups that have the greatest influence in driving a particular metric up or down:

Employee Female Ratio
Employee Minority Ratio (US)
Minority Ratio in US
Standard Employee Ethnic Minority Ratio

Bug fixes

64436 - Generation concept calculation: We've standardized the cutoff years in each category of the Generation concept. The new ranges are:

Silent Generation: An employee who was born between 1928-1945.
Boomers: An employee who was born between 1946-1964.
Gen X: An employee who was born between 1965-1980.
Millennials: An employee who was born between 1981-1996.
Gen Z (Zoomers): An employee who was born between 1997-2012.

79066 - Average Remote Work Experience Score property: We’ve fixed the formula so the employee’s average score is calculated using the Survey Event Response Score.

Learning

What's new

Percent of Total metrics: New metrics to show counts and events as a percentage of the total.

Learning Completion Events Percent of Total

Planning

What's new

Guided diversity planning: We've added a new model that will allow you to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations. Create a Guided Diversity Plan to define and manage your organization's diversity goals in the planning grid.

Total Cost of Workforce metrics: We've added Actual and Budgeted metrics that calculate the minimum, maximum, median, 25th percentile, and 75th percentile cost of Base Pay, Direct Compensation, Supplemental Pay, Total Rewards, and Variable Pay.

Exits plan items restructure: We’ve grouped the Resignation, Retirement, and Involuntary Turnover plan items under a new plan item called Expected Exits. This change was made to emphasize that the Other Exits plan item captures employee exits that are unaccounted for in your data. Total Exits is the sum of Expected Exits and Other Exits.

Reload assumptions in subplan with locked costs: You can now reload the assumption values for any cost-related plan item in your subplan where costs have been locked by the main planner. Each time you update your segmentation, the assumption values inherited from the main plan are automatically dropped. You must reload the values of the assumption model to get the information provided by the main planner.

Bug fixes

64348 - Plan item limit: We’ve added a maximum cell count for plan items to ensure plan metrics can be analyzed in the Table visualization. Plan items can have a maximum of 1 million cells.

Talent Acquisition

What's new

Percent of Total metrics: New metrics to show counts and events as a percentage of the total.

Applicants Active in Period Percent of Total
Current Applicants Percent of Total
New Applicants in Period Percent of Total
Open Requisitions Percent of Total
Opened Requisitions in Period Percent of Total

Bug fixes

18488 - Average Days Requisitions on Hold metric: We’ve updated the data type of this metric so the correct unit of measurement (Days) appears in visuals.

74777 - Vacancy Ratio metric documentation: We've updated mentions of Vacancy Rate to Vacancy Ratio in the explanation of the Vacancy Ratio metric.

75264 - Movement concepts: Added descriptions for the metrics used as measures in movement concepts.

78282 - Recruiters for Non-Evergreen metric display name update: We’ve renamed the Recruiters for Non-Evergreen metric to Internal Recruiters for Non-Evergreen Requisitions to reflect that the metric is only counting recruiters who have a valid Employee record. We’ve also added more guidance to the metric’s description and explanation.

Talent Essentials

What's new

Career path and compensation metrics and dimensions: New metrics and dimensions to analyze employee career paths and compensation.

Time Since Last Positive Pay Change Event
Time Since Last Positive Pay Change Event Range
Weighted Work Experience Range

Manager Instability Count and Rate metrics calculation change: We've removed the trailing 12 month time period from the calculation of the Manager Instability Count and Manager Instability Rate metrics.

Bug fixes

75264 - Movement concepts: Added descriptions for the metrics used as measures in movement concepts.

79066 - Average Remote Work Experience Score property: We’ve fixed the formula so the employee’s average score is calculated using the Survey Event Response Score.

Talent Expert

What's new

Employee survey text topics and sentiment: Onboard processed text responses from employee experience vendors such as Medallia and Glint in order to understand which workplace topics are of interest to employees. Analyze employee sentiment about these topics based on their responses to open text questions on engagement surveys.

Data is required for this feature.

Percent of Total metrics: New metrics to show counts and events as a percentage of the total.

Total Absence Days Percent of Total
Survey Events Responses Percent of Total

Display name updates: We've renamed the following metrics to clarify that employees aged 50 are included in the calculation.

Successor Pool Coverage Over 50 to Successor Pool Coverage 50 and Over
Incumbents Over 50 to Incumbents 50 and Over
Incumbents Over 50 with Ready Now Successors to Incumbents 50 and Over with Ready Now Successors

Compensation metrics and dimensions: New metrics and dimensions to analyze employee compensation.

Time Since Last Bonus
Time Since Last Bonus Range
Actual Base Pay Range
Actual Bonus Pay Ratio Range

Remote and hybrid work experience category: New concept and dimension to measure employee sentiment towards remote and hybrid work.

Experience Category - Remote Work
Remote Work Experience Sentiment

Survey Event Type Group dimension: When analyzing employee surveys, use this dimension to identify the group that the survey belongs to based on the survey type. For example, Engagement or Exit.

Active filter on succession metrics: We’ve updated the formula of the following metrics to include active employees only.

Successors
Time as Ready Successor

Bug fixes

75264 - Movement concepts: Added descriptions for the metrics used as measures in movement concepts.

79066 - Average Remote Work Experience Score property: We’ve fixed the formula so the employee’s average score is calculated using the Survey Event Response Score.

Workforce

What's new

Percent of Total metrics: New metrics to show counts and events as a percentage of the total.

Timekeeping Hours Recorded Percent of Total

Visier Benchmarks

Visier Benchmarks Trends

New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Trends: We've added measured values for Q2 2021.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Trends:

Measured values from Q1 2017 to Q2 2021.
Extrapolated values from Q3 2021 to Q2 2022.

Visier Benchmarks Reports

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Reports:

Measured values from 2017 to 2020.
Extrapolated values for 2021 and 2022.

Summary of Visier Benchmarks dataset

The Visier Benchmarks dataset was last updated October 2021.

Benchmark values available: 1,261,128.
Employee records in dataset: 12,816,357.