Spring 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 Visier Portal to request and vote on new features.

Platform

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

What's new

Citations in Vee Boards

AI explanations now include citations that indicate the data source for each insight in a Vee Board. Hover over a citation to preview the corresponding visual, and click the citation to open the visual in full screen. For more information, see Vee Boards.

Jira Connector General Availability

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Jira Connector. You can use the connector specifically to light up the new Jira Extension, or use it to bring general work data into Visier to drive insights into Development teams. For more information, see Jira and Visier Extensions.

Jira Extension

As part of Visier Extensions, the Jira Extension allows you to integrate data and insights about the software development cycle into your instance of Visier People. The Jira Extension includes prebuilt core content with foundational metrics through which you can load and validate your data. With the Jira Extension, you can gain insights into the performance and capacity of your development team, support budget planning, and stay on schedule for important deadlines. For more information, see Visier Extensions.

Note: Visier Extensions are included with your purchase of Visier People Extend.

Visier Extension Setup Wizard

Getting started with Visier Extensions is now easier than ever! We’ve enhanced the data setup process by launching a helpful guided wizard and integrating a new Studio Assistant and concept automapping for seamless configuration. This streamlined experience simplifies setup so you can quickly start getting valuable insights from your data. For more information, see Set Up Visier Extensions.

Note:  

  • Visier Extensions are included with your purchase of Visier People Extend.
  • Your organization must also opt in to AI features to use concept automapping.

Visier People Extend Sandbox

If you’re interested in Visier People Extend, you can get access to a temporary Visier environment where you can build, test, and explore what the platform has to offer. Sign up through the Visier Service Portal. For more information, see Build and Extend with Visier.

Upcoming Change to the Preview Period

Starting with our next release the preview period will be shortened from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. We’re making this change to streamline our release process and deliver updates more efficiently. We encourage you to continue using the preview period to explore new features and prepare for the release. For more information, see The Preview Version.

Multi IdP Support

We now support single sign-on with multiple identity providers (IdPs), giving you greater flexibility when signing in to Visier. For more information, see Set Up Single Sign-On.

Data Job Validation

We added the following enhancements for data engineers to validate data loading jobs:

  • Access to a job’s Processing Issues tab (previously ESL Issues) to troubleshoot all processing issues in failed jobs in a single overview.
  • Additional error messages for:
    • Invalid mapping extraction rules, unmapped mandatory properties, invalid mapped columns, and missing sources in the mapping.
    • Invalid business rule and multi-subject rule formulas.
    • Processing issues during the job.

For more information, see Processing job issues in Data Validation.

Note: Data is required for this feature.

APIs

What's new

Batch Process Webhooks

Use webhooks to register your own HTTPS endpoints with Visier and listen for specific events. When these events occur, Visier sends an API request to your registered endpoint. For example, you can create a webhook to monitor job status events with Visier. Visier sends a success or failure notification to your registered endpoint after the job completes. For more information, see Webhooks API.

Data Modeling CRUD API

We added new APIs to create, retrieve, update, and delete the following objects in Visier:

  • Leveled and parent-child dimensions
  • Process concepts and process concept metrics
  • Vee sample questions

For more information, see Dimensions API, Concepts API, and Data Model API Code Samples.

Vee

What's new

Vee Copilot Integration

Vee is now integrated with Microsoft Copilot. Organizations using Copilot can access Vee's valuable data-driven insights by asking questions directly within the Copilot interface, bringing the power of Vee into their daily workflow and streamlining information access.

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

Visier People

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

VP: Essentials

What's new

EU Pay Transparency

To support the 2027 EU directive that requires annual gender pay gap reporting, we've added 42 new metrics that normalize budgeted and actual compensation data. You can load your standard compensation data and use these new metrics to review pay equity within your organization.

Note: Data is required for this feature.

Bug fixes

125983 - Renamed Validation Metric Display Names

In order to reflect their validation function, we've appended Prediction Validation to the end of the following metric display names:

  • Employees with Internal Move Ratio (Prediction Validation)
  • Employees with Promotion Ratio (Prediction Validation)
  • Employees with Resignation Ratio (Prediction Validation)

VP: Total Rewards

What's new

EU Pay Transparency

To support the 2027 EU directive that requires annual gender pay gap reporting, we've added 42 new metrics that normalize budgeted and actual compensation data. You can load your standard compensation data and use these new metrics to review pay equity within your organization.

Note: Data is required for this feature.

VP: Workforce Planning

What's new

Open Plan Modeling

Users with the Planning: Write, Detailed profile capability can now access the Plan Models room in Studio to create and modify plan models. The Plan Models room provides you with direct control over plan models, giving you the flexibility to create new plan models or customize existing ones to meet specific organizational needs. For more information, see Plan Models.

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

TechWolf External Skills

What’s new

TechWolf Internal Mobility Insights

You can now load the TechWolf Internal Mobility dataset into Visier, allowing you to perform internal mobility assessments. With these insights, you can identify the best internal candidates for a job and the best next jobs for employees, based on skill fit. You can also optimize productivity and retention by deploying talent to where they work best. We’ve added seven new analyses for you to explore skills-enabled people analytic insights and actions. You can access them through the links in the Visier + TechWolf Skills Insights analysis.

Note: Data is required for this feature.

Datasets and Enrichments

What's new

Improved Job Standardization

The Standardized Occupation algorithm now delivers more precise job matches. This update improves the reliability of your analytics and reduces the impact of poorly matched jobs. When there is not enough evidence for a confident match, occupations will now be categorized as unmatched. Unmatched jobs can be manually matched to a Standardized Occupation in Studio. For more information, see Override a Standardization Match.

Updates to Visier's Job Taxonomy

Job descriptions have been improved for many consultant jobs outside of traditional consulting firms.

Visier Benchmarks

What's new

New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Trend

We’ve added measured values for Q4 2024.

New measured values for Visier Benchmarks Report

We’ve added measured values for 2024.

Summary of dataset

The Visier Benchmarks dataset was last updated May 2025.

  • Benchmark values available: 198,343,230.
  • Employee records in dataset: 18,294,051

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Trends:

  • Measured values from Q1 2020 to Q4 2024.
  • Extrapolated values from Q1 2025 to Q4 2025.

The current breakdown of Visier Benchmarks Reports:

  • Measured values from 2017 to 2024.
  • Extrapolated values for 2025 and 2026.