Spring 2022 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.

What's new

Set your own Home analysis: Users can now override the default login analysis set by their administrator with an analysis of their choice.

Share analysis notification option: You can now choose whether or not to notify users via email when you share an analysis with them. When notifying users, you can also add a note to provide additional context or instructions.

Find similar: Quickly add a group of employees to the comparison grid that have similar attributes to an employee of interest in the Compare room.

Tableau Web Connector: Create an Aggregated or Detailed Data Export to export data from Visier directly into Tableau.

Suggested metrics and filters: Based on common usage patterns, Visier will now intelligently suggest other metrics and filters for you to use.

Capture View Details: You can now capture and add the View Details visualization to your analysis.

Event annotations: Add event annotations to the Trend and Trend Breakdown visuals to provide contextual information that will help users understand trends in the data.

Get additional details about reference lines: We've added visual interactions to make it easier for you to get more details about reference lines. Hover over any reference line in the visual to reveal a datatip that displays information such as its value. You can also click the reference line to view additional insights in the Info panel.

New traffic light rule type for the Table visual: The Difference from metric overall traffic light rule type is now supported for the Table visual. With this rule type, the metric value for each visual item is compared to the overall value of another metric.

Debug invisible objects: If content isn't available to a user due to security or configuration, Visier hides that content from the user. Administrators can now download an analysis debug report to investigate the hidden content, such as which visuals, metrics, or dimensions aren't displaying.

  • Data is required for this feature.

Update to email templates: Administrators can now customize the header image and whether or not a border appears in emails sent from Visier.

UKG Dimensions connector: Visier now offers a data connector for UKG Dimensions. This allows you to import time and attendance data from UKG into Visier.

  • This capability is in limited availability. If you are interested in using it, please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM). If you are unsure who your CSM is, please create a technical support case through the Visier Service Portal.

Flag and fix enhancements: You can now report data issues for additional attribute types. For auditing purposes, administrators can now download a list of all reported data issues. Administrators can also flag and fix data issues in bulk by downloading a template and uploading the list of newly compiled issues.

Metrics within properties: Calculated properties can now reference metrics within their formulas. This feature unlocks the ability to have aggregate values as properties on subject members. For example, we can now add aggregate calculations as properties on managers, such as team count and exit rate. You can use this for reporting, comparison, distribution analysis, and more.

Set parameter values in a metric formula: You can now reference a parameterized metric in the formula of a different metric and set its parameters to a specific value in the new metric formula.

Audit user downloads of analyses and visuals: If a user downloads a Visier analysis or visualization, the Application Logs now record the format that it was downloaded to (PowerPoint, PDF, or Image). It will also provide a unique ID for the analysis or visualization, if available.

Updated security interface: We've enhanced the usability of the security rooms in the studio experience, including:

  • Duplicating a permission now takes you to the newly created permission.
  • You can now view a data access set's dependencies. The Dependencies tab is a flat list of the permissions that use the data access set.
  • Under each subject, events and references will now show a summary info line for the number of Detailed, Aggregated, and None access for properties.
  • Events are no longer available in the list of data access sets.

Data model and query APIs: These APIs are now generally available to all customers. The data model and query APIs allow you to pull your data from Visier in an automated or ad-hoc way using an API.

Patch Updates

New error message for unsupported browser sessions in embedded visualizations: We now return the “VERIFY_SESSION_ERROR” error message when an embedded visualization is used in a browser that doesn’t allow third-party cookies or cross-site tracking. To correct the error, change your browser settings to allow third-party cookies or cross-site tracking, or hide the embedded visualization.

New method to embed multiple visualizations: We updated how you can embed more than one visualization in your target environments. You can now add a charts field to the visierConfig object and list each visualization you want to embed.

Support different rasterized sizes for embedded visuals: Visualizations are embedded as rasterized images, which are pixelated images with height and width values. When embedding visualizations in your application or web portal, you can now set the visualization size using the width field.

Manage your users and profiles with Visier APIs: You can now perform user management and profile management tasks using Visier's public APIs.

Bug fixes

45378 - Horizontal axis of 100% stacked bar: We fixed an issue where the horizontal axis of the stacked bar visual exceeded a 100 percent.

73826 - Analysis email Engagement rates: We have changed the way we calculate the Opened and Clicked rates to account for duplicate actions and actions made by users who are not included in the recipient list. As a result, you may see Opened and Clicked rates over 100% for your analysis email schedule.

82320 - Changed language for custom message: Previously, we released a feature that allows our partners to add a custom message to unavailable visuals. We referred to it as "alternative text" in the interface, which was unclear. We recognize that "alt text" has very specific connotations related to accessibility, so we updated the language to say "custom message" instead.

82789 - Movement source and destination values for subject references: When analyzing movement, you can now see the source and destination attribute values of subject references in View Details. For example, if an employee has moved during the period and you can see the email of their direct manager in View Details (subject reference), you will now see the email address of their previous manager and the email address of their current manager.

84063 - Guidebook topics order: We fixed an issue where changes to the Guidebook topic order did not appear to save in the studio experience.

88790 - Net Change value for Movement visuals: When analyzing the movement of a newly added business unit, you will now see the correct Net Change value displayed in the Movement Summary and Movement Breakdown visuals. The discrepancy was a result of the overall Headcount of the entire organization being used as the Starting Headcount instead of zero.

Visier People

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

Organization

What's new

Manager metrics and dimensions: We've added the following metrics and dimensions to analyze employees who are managers with direct reports that include managers or individual contributors:

  • Manager of Managers Count
  • Manager of Individual Contributors Count
  • Manager of Managers Ratio
  • Manager of Individual Contributors Ratio
  • Managers with Direct Reports Count
  • Has Manager as Direct Report
  • Has Only Individual Contributors as Direct Reports

Guidebook content for Retention: Check out A Step-by-Step Guide to Retention Analysis to explore the immediate and root causes of turnover across your organization and identify possible solutions to increase retention of talent.

Standardized Occupations: We are excited to share that the Standardized Occupations feature is now automatically enabled for all customers that have authorized data aggregation rights. This functionality is being added to your subscription at no additional cost. Standardized Occupations leverages AI and the Emsi Burning Glass jobs structure to automatically match your organization’s jobs with standardized names and hierarchies, providing richer insights while building a foundation for future analytic capabilities. It is yet another example of our commitment to continued innovation and delivering powerful new analysis tools.

  • For questions about, and assistance with Standardized Occupations, contact your Customer Success Manager. If you’re unsure of who to contact, submit a Technical Support Case.

Welcome to Visier People! analyses: We've created new Welcome to Visier People! analyses for general users, HR business partners, managers, executives, analysts, and administrators that can be set as the Home analysis.

Deprecation notices

Performance Rated Employee concept: We're announcing the deprecation of this concept as it is a duplicate of another object.

Bug fixes

86510/87736 - Deprecated objects in analysis:

  • We've updated the Learn About Headcount and Demographics analysis and the Diversity and Inclusion - Validation analysis so the visuals use the correct Generation dimension.
  • We updated the Validation of Regular Loads analysis so the visuals use the correct Manager Instability Rate metric.

86621 - Critical Job dimension: We've reallocated the Critical Job dimension because it was tagged to the wrong application. A subscription to Talent Acquisition is now required for access.

87314 - Employee Exit Average Performance Rating metric: We've added the Employee Exit Average Performance Rating metric as it was tagged to the wrong application.

Planning

What's new

Auto-fix distribution: Automatically redistribute values to solve plan conflicts when values at lower levels of the plan fall outside of the acceptable minimum or maximum values set by the plan owner.

Headcount and cost plan item distribution methods: We've updated the guidance for all plan items in the Headcount and Cost planning model to indicate the distribution strategy that is used.

Talent Acquisition

Bug fixes

  • 86621 - Critical Job dimension: We've added the Critical Job dimension as it was tagged to the wrong application.

Talent Essentials

What's new

Time Since Promotion Event metric: We've added a Time Since Promotion Event metric to analyze the average amount of time, in years, that has passed since the last promotion event for employees. This metric includes employees who have never received a promotion. If an employee does not have a promotion event record or promotion date, this metric uses their tenure start date.

  • Configuration is required for this metric.

Guidebook content for Prediction models: Check out the Learn About and Validate Visier's Prediction Models analysis to learn how these predictions work, and how you can validate that they are performing well against your organization's data.

Bug fixes

87314 - Employee Exit Average Performance Rating metric: We've reallocated the Employee Exit Average Performance Rating metric to Organization as it was incorrectly tagged to Talent Essentials.

87736 - Deprecated objects in analysis: We updated the How has the span of control and managerial structure evolved? analysis and the What is affecting the resignation rate? analysis so the visuals use the correct Manager Instability Rate metric.

Talent Expert

What's new

Share grants analysis: We've added metrics and dimensions to track the amount and value of share grants given to employees as part of their compensation. Understand the effectiveness of share grants in retaining employees and identify whether share grant distribution is fair and equitable across the organization. Check out the Learn About Employee Share Grants analysis to understand more about how these metrics can be used. We've also added an Employee Share Grants - Validation analysis to help you validate the data loaded for share grants.

  • Data is required for this feature.
  • This feature is only available in Talent Expert. It is not available for legacy Talent customers.

Bug fixes

86510 - Deprecated objects in analysis: We’ve updated the Which employees are filing cases? analysis so the visuals use the new Generation concept.

Workforce

Bug fixes

86510 - Deprecated objects in analysis: We’ve updated the Which employees are filing cases? analysis so the visuals use the new Generation concept.

Visier Benchmarks

New industries in Visier Benchmarks: We’ve increased the number of industries within Visier Benchmarks. This increase enables you to compare your business to the most relevant peer group. High-level industry categories have increased from 6 to 8, and 21 subcategories were added. Understand how you stack up against your competitors and pinpoint areas for improvement with our expanded benchmarks.

Visier Benchmarks Trends

  • New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Trends: We've added measured values for Q4 2021.
  • Visier Benchmark Trend Series 2021: Just a reminder we will be retiring the Visier Benchmark Trend Series for 2021 in the next release (Summer 2022).

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Trends:

  • Measured values from Q1 2018 to Q4 2021.
  • Extrapolated values from Q1 2022 to Q4 2022.

Visier Benchmarks Reports

  • New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Reports: We’ve added measured values for 2021.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Reports:

  • Measured values from 2017 to 2021.
  • Extrapolated values for 2022 and 2023.

Summary of Visier Benchmarks dataset

The Visier Benchmarks dataset was last updated May 2022.

  • Benchmark values available: 3,616,281.
  • Employee records in dataset: 15,205,840.