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How T. Rowe Price Built a Single Source of Truth — and a More Strategic HR — in 13 Weeks
Global asset manager T. Rowe Price knows that data is critical to everything it does. By choosing Visier over a traditional BI tool and integrating its people data across the employee lifecycle, the firm created a single source of truth, improved transparency, and gave HR and business leaders the data to make faster, more strategic decisions — standing up the platform in a 13-week sprint.
13 wks
to integrate core people data, in a sprint with Deloitte
Our Summary:
Industry
Financial Services
Headquarters
Baltimore, Maryland
Company size
7,700+
Visier solutions used
Workforce Insights
The challenge:
With Qlik as its BI tool, building cross-functional insight meant time-consuming custom development for each use case — not scalable, and not easy for HR leaders to use.
Why Visier Workforce AI:
Visier's question-based approach, superior end-user experience, and well-organized out-of-the-box content made it the clear choice to integrate data sources and tell a comprehensive story.
Key outcomes:
T. Rowe Price scaled its analytics beyond traditional BI, drove adoption among HR leaders, and integrated its core data in 13 weeks with Deloitte.
With Visier, T. Rowe Price has:
Scaled its analytics capabilities effectively by choosing Visier over traditional BI tools
Enhanced ease of use, fostering greater adoption among HR leaders
Successfully integrated data in 13 weeks with Deloitte
THE CHALLENGE
Scalability and ease of use HR could rely on
HR leaders and firm members found it difficult to access cross-functional insight and extract data from the systems the firm was using. With Qlik as its BI tool, development was time-consuming, requiring significant resources to build a custom application for each case — a lack of flexibility that pointed to the need for a more scalable, user-friendly solution.
What led us down this path was the realization that, as an asset manager, data is critical to everything we do… we believed Visier would be a quick way to accelerate our progress. It offered an effective means to integrate all our data sources and tell a comprehensive story. Additionally, we had new leadership in our C-suite who were very data-driven and needed HR to show up with data.
— Shannon Rutledge, Director, HR Data & Analytics, T. Rowe Price
THE SOLUTION
A superior end-user experience, stood up on an aggressive timeline
Visier stood out for its question-based approach and ease of use. “We ultimately chose Visier because of its superior end-user experience. We knew it would meet our customers' needs. After demoing several competitors, the feedback indicated that Visier stood out as something they would be willing to adopt,” explains Shannon Rutledge. Visier's pre-built content gave the team a solid foundation they could customize for different user personas.
To get to insight faster, T. Rowe Price worked with Deloitte, a Visier Certified Services Partner. “We completed a 13-week sprint to integrate our organizational, core TA, and learning data,” Shannon says. “The experience was wonderful. We worked with both the US and India teams from Deloitte, and they were exceptional… I truly believe we couldn't have met the aggressive timeline without their guidance and management throughout the entire process.”
THE OUTCOME
Adoption, fewer inquiries, and a more strategic HR with Vee and AI
Since implementing Visier, Shannon's team has seen promising outcomes — particularly with recent interface improvements. The firm chose Vee to drive adoption, especially among HR leaders, expecting its intuitive chat to reduce inquiries to the analytics team. “My team has been testing it, and we have seen progress with the recent interface and model improvements… Our reason for choosing Vee was to support adoption. We knew that for some of our higher-level leaders in HR, the chat capability would be intuitive and hopefully reduce the number of inquiries my team receives,” Shannon adds. The team is excited about AI's potential to augment repetitive reporting like headcount and turnover and to enable Visier's predictive models — freeing people to focus on strategic analytics.
With Visier, we're hoping to see more effective data delivery linked to our strategies. One key area we're focusing on is measuring the impact of our TA function, which has historically been difficult to analyze… we are building a larger roadmap with the Visier platform to identify other data sources to integrate… ultimately positioning HR as a more strategic partner.
— Shannon Rutledge, Director, HR Data & Analytics, T. Rowe Price
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