Winter 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

New supported languages: Visier can now be used in Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain).

Card carousel: When authoring an analysis, you can now add a Carousel card to display two or more visuals in a slideshow format that viewers can cycle through.

Home: Administrators can now set a default analysis to display to users when they first sign in to Visier. If enabled, the default analysis is the first room that a user sees when they sign in to Visier. Home allows you to set the default analysis to a dashboard-like analysis to give your users a quick overview of key data when they first open Visier.

Configuration is required for this feature.

People Insights Powered by Visier.AI: Users can now access analyses powered by Visier AI. These analyses use algorithms to provide relevant insights based on a trigger population (such as an employee who recently left the organization). Analysis templates are pre-built by Visier and dynamically change to provide information relevant to the employee you select for analysis.

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.

Request access to an analysis: If you open an analysis and you don't have access to view it, you can now request permission from the analysis owner. The owner of the analysis will get an email with your request.

Send analysis emails based on metric triggers: Set up a conditional delivery rule to email insights to users when specific events or changes in the data occur.

Add a reference line for the overall value of another metric: A new reference line type that lets you quickly compare the overall value of another metric against the data in your visual. With this type of reference line, the filters and group bys in your visual are maintained when the value of another metric is displayed.

Additional dynamic time filtering option for cohorts and time-based attributes: When defining cohorts, you can now filter on a specific time range in the past, relative to the visual time (last n period). For example, you can analyze the increase in average base pay for employees who recently received a promotion. You can do this by defining a cohort population that includes employees who received a promotion in the last 12 months. The cohort population will automatically change based on the visual time, so you don't have to update the filter as time passes. As a result, you can repeat the analysis without having to recreate the cohort. The last n periods option is also available when filtering your analysis population by time-based attributes such as Start Date.

Flag and fix: Quickly report incorrect values or missing data and suggest corrections in the solution experience for an administrator to review. These data issues can be fixed in a timely manner as administrators can now make and publish corrections in Visier without having to wait for source systems to be updated.

Configuration is required for this feature.

Bubble Grid architecture: We've enhanced the internal architecture of the Bubble Grid visual. As a result of this change, the Bubble Grid visual will now show the overall value of a metric if there is no data available for any of the attribute values you've selected when adding focus.

Hide zeros, null (N/A), and unchanged values from the History visual: To reduce the amount of noise when exploring the attribute values for employees, candidates, requisitions, and more, you can now hide zero, null (N/A), and unchanged values.

Trend Breakdown visual improvements: We've increased the maximum number of data items that can be displayed in a Trend Breakdown visual from 14 to 30. When building a Trend Breakdown, you can now set the maximum number of data items that appear and add a reference line to quickly summarize or compare data.

Traffic lighting improvements: You can now apply traffic lighting to your visual based on the percentage change in the overall value of another metric. With the Difference from Metric Overall rule type, each visual item is compared to the overall value of another metric. You can also now add traffic lighting to the Table visual.

Update to the data failure notification email: If a data load fails, Visier emails a load failure notification to a list of specified users. In this release, we changed the return email address to no-reply@visier.com. If your company uses email spam filters, please add no-reply@visier.com to your list of allowed senders to ensure that users continue to receive data failure notification emails from Visier.

Additional data connectors: Visier now supports data connectors with Amazon Redshift, Microsoft SQL Server, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake.

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.

Usage data for the studio experience: You can now view data about how your users are using the studio experience, including the actions taken and rooms that users navigated to. This provides insights into how your users are using the studio experience in Visier.

Data model and query APIs: We enhanced the data model and data query APIs to add new API endpoints and support for new data types. We also enhanced existing data types to support additional field types.

Visier People

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

All

What's new

Gender identity language update: We've updated our gender language and added new objects for more inclusive and diverse analyses.

The following metric display names were updated:
- Applicant Female Ratio to Applicant Ratio for Women
- Candidate Female Ratio to Candidate Ratio for Women
- Employee Female Ratio to Employee Ratio for Women
- Employee Male Ratio to Employee Ratio for Men
- Female Ratio - My EEOC Benchmark to Women Ratio - My EEOC Benchmark
- Female Ratio - My Visier Benchmark™ - Report to Women Ratio - My Visier Benchmark™ - Report
- Female Ratio - My Visier Benchmark™ - Trend to Women Ratio - My Visier Benchmark™ - Trend
- Female Ratio - Overall EEOC Benchmark to Women Ratio - Overall EEOC Benchmark
- Female Ratio - Overall Visier Benchmark™ - Report to Women Ratio - Overall Visier Benchmark™ - Report
- Female Ratio - Overall Visier Benchmark™ - Trend to Women Ratio - Overall Visier Benchmark™ - Trend
- Female Ratio Variance from My EEOC Benchmark to Women Ratio Variance from My EEOC Benchmark
- Projected Employee Female Ratio to Projected Employee Ratio for Women
The following concept display names were updated:
- Female to Woman
- Male to Man
LGBTQ2+ concept: Use this concept to analyze employees who identify as part of the LGBTQ2+ community.
LGBTQ2+ Identity dimension: Use this dimension to analyze the groups within the LGBTQ2+ community that employees identify with.
Pronouns property: We've added a new Pronouns property on Employee that allows you to analyze the pronouns of your employees (such as she, he, or they).

Bug fixes

73297 - Reverse References display names: We've added more detail to the display names of reverse references.

82476 - Additive setting for Percent of Total metrics: We've made the Percent of Total metrics additive. When looking at these metrics, you can now create a Breakdown visual with two attributes.

82769 - Range dimension display names: We've added the word "Range" to the display names of all range dimensions to make it easier to identify that they are ranges.

83916 - Annualized rate metrics: Annualization will now apply to time periods greater than one year.

Organization

What's new

COVID-19 booster shots: We've added the following metrics and dimensions to analyze COVID-19 booster shots so you can ensure your workforce is up to date in their protection against the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is required for this feature.

Employee COVID-19 Overdue Vaccination Count
Employee COVID-19 Overdue Vaccination Ratio
J&J/Janssen Vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccine Type

Bug fixes

77944 - Active Users metric: We've updated the formula for this metric so View Details shows a list of active users instead of actions made by active users.

79055 - Span of Control and Drivers visual: The Span of Control attribute was previously deprecated and replaced with the Span of Control Ranges attribute. We've updated the metrics so the Span of Control Ranges is used in the Drivers calculation.

Learning

What's new

Skill movement model calculation change: We've updated the calculations for the Incoming Skills Count and Lost Skills Count measures to include acquired skill count for employees that became active during the period.

Bug fixes

75061 - Engagement overlay: We've renamed the Engagement overlay to Engagement Score and updated the description to indicate that survey data is not included.

79055 - Span of Control and Drivers visual: The Span of Control attribute was previously deprecated and replaced with the Span of Control Ranges attribute. We've updated metrics so the Span of Control Ranges is used in the Drivers calculation.

Planning

What's new

Change the dimension structure in plan vs actuals comparison: When comparing plan and actuals metrics, you can now change the dimension structure that is used to calculate the actuals metric without having to change the order of metrics in the comparison.

Define calculation levels for plan items: When creating a plan, you now have the option to define a calculation level to select the segment in which you want calculations to stop for non-core plan items.

Roll up from leaves for imported data: When importing a CSV file, conflicts can arise in the planning grid when plan values don't add up correctly. You can now solve all conflicts in the planning grid by rolling up child values to re-calculate parent values.

Patch updates

Additional Expected Exits: We’ve added a new plan item to the Headcount and Cost planning model. Use the Additional Expected Exits plan item to capture exit events that are projected to happen that fall outside of Resignations, Retirements, or Involuntary Turnover.

Talent Acquisition

What's new

Skills Incoming model: We've added a Skills Incoming model with an Acquired Skill perspective to show changes in acquired skills over time when analyzing skill movement.

Stage Conversion Rate metrics: We've added a Stage Conversion Rate metric to the Campus Process and Applicant Process so you can analyze the percentage of applicants that moved between stages.

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

Candidates Percent of Total
Candidates Who Applied in Period Percent of Total
New Candidates in Period Percent of Total

Bug fixes

72686 - Applicant Conversion Rate metrics: We've updated the formula for the following Conversion Rate metrics to only include active applicants in the period:

Applied to Screened Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Background Checked to Hired Yet To Start Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Interviews Completed to Selected Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Interviews Started to Interviews Completed Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Offer Accepted to Background Checked Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Offered to Offer Accepted Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Qualified to Interviews Started Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Screened to Qualified Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)
Selected to Offered Conversion Rate (Applicant Process)

78500 - Recruiters for Non-Evergreen Requisitions metric: We've updated the formula to include external recruiters.

Talent Essentials

Bug fixes

75061 - Engagement overlay: We've renamed the Engagement overlay to Engagement Score and updated the description to indicate that survey data is not included.

82790 - Median Pay Change Percentage metric: We've changed the data type of the Median Pay Change Percentage metric to percent. As a result, the metric value will now be the same in the Info panel and View Details.

Talent Expert

What's new

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

Deals Closed Percent of Total
Sales Revenue Closed Percent of Total
Successors Percent of Total
Incumbents Percent of Total

Bug fixes

Workforce

What's new

Timekeeping Hours Recorded formula update: We've updated the formula of this metric to filter by Recordable Timekeeping Hours, which only includes recordable hours such as worked hours, overtime hours, or vacation hours. Other types of hours such as premiums are not included. To analyze the total number of all types of timekeeping hours during the period, use Total Timekeeping Hours.

Visier Benchmarks

Visier Benchmarks Trends

New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Trends: We've added measured values for Q3 2021.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Trends:

Measured values from Q1 2017 to Q3 2021.
Extrapolated values from Q4 2021 to Q3 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 January 2022.

Benchmark values available: 1,346,587.
Employee records in dataset: 13,633,845.