Unify People Data and Work Data for Powerful Insights
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Visier Workforce Insights
The workforce decisions that matter most are also the ones organizations are least equipped to make. You need a complete and accurate picture of your workforce.

HCMs, payroll systems, ATSs, spreadsheets — your workforce data lives everywhere. Which means your answers live nowhere.

“99% of leaders report disconnected talent data is having a negative financial impact on their business, and more than 80% estimate it costs at least 3% of total payroll.”

THE FIX
One workforce model, enriched with people science and external benchmarks, delivered securely to every person, agent, and tool that needs it.
How it works
Visier's Context Engine maps every system you run — HCM, payroll, ATS, spreadsheets, data warehouses and more — into one unique workforce blueprint covering your structure, your definitions, and your history.
Map
Map your workforce data into a single, bi-temporal model, so today's number and last year's number are built the same way
Reconcile definitions, structures, metrics and methods, so regardless of what team is asking, you'll get consistent insights

Explain
Ask a workforce question in plain language and get a governed, accurate answer, instead of manually doing the analysis and figuring out the ‘so what’
See patterns and correlations across workforce changes and data sources that a single-source system could never uncover

Benchmark
Compare your workforce against benchmarks and best practices built from 85,000+ enterprises
Separate what’s actually a problem to be tackled from normal workforce flux
Ground AI in workforce science, so agents can explain why a number matters, instead of hallucinating a plausible-sounding output

Govern
Security is enforced at the moment of delivery, so users only see what they are allowed to see, nothing more
Governance built into the data itself, so stays consistent when the data, and people, move

Scale
Distribute workforce intelligence to whomever needs access, without causing bottlenecks for data teams or security risks
Free time for data teams to focus on complex deliverables

Learn
Visier learns from what’s happening in your workforce and what’s worked elsewhere, refining benchmarks and guidance over time
Every plan built in Planning and every program run in Programs feeds outcome data back into Insights, tightening the next answer
Build institutional knowledge about your workforce that outlives any one dashboard, agent or analyst

VISIER WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
Reports surface data but don't diagnose it, benchmark it, or connect it to what should happen next.
Assembling one view from a handful of systems is painful and already out of date the moment it's delivered.
Analytics tools you get from your HCM provider are built for a single specific area, not for breadth across HR, Finance and Operational data. They struggle to bring multiple sources together outside of their own HCM ecosystem.
GenAI reads your workforce data and guesses at the meaning, making up whatever it can't find. It doesn't know what's normal for your workforce, company or industry.

VISIER
Workforce Insights runs on the Visier Workforce Intelligence Platform: a Workforce Context Engine that maps your people data from every system into one workforce blueprint, enriched with workforce science, benchmarks, and best practices, and delivered through governance that travels with the data everywhere it goes. Through Vee and Visier's MCP, the same governed insight reaches any AI agent, data warehouse, or tool you already run.
See the PlatformBusiness priorities
Grow AI-Ready Teams and Skills
Know whether you actually have the people and skills to deliver the strategy you've committed to, down to the individual gap.
Deeply understand your skills coverageDrive Confident Org Redesign
Understand how your org actually operates and costs, while finding where it's broken, before you change anything.
Be proactive about your ideal orgManage Total Workforce Cost
Get one complete picture of what your workforce costs, breakable down to any level on demand, trusted by HR and Finance
Get a full view of costBuild a Scalable Hiring Operation
See where the process is losing good candidates, and whether the people you're hiring are actually working out.
See then optimize your hiring funnelDevelop Managers Who Transform Teams
Identify which managers are evolving how they lead their teams, not just who completed the online training.
Measure manager impactPrevent Regrettable Attrition
Uncover who's at risk of leaving, why they're actually leaving, and where pay is why.
See your flight risks before they happen
THE FULL PICTURE
Workforce Insights is where it starts. Nothing you plan or activate is more trustworthy than the picture Insights gives you. And every plan you build and program you run feeds outcome data back into Insights, strengthening the picture for the next cycle.
See what changes when every leader works from the same accurate insights.
Book a DemoNo. Reports tell you what happened. Visier tells you what it means and what's normal, built from workforce science and benchmarks, not left for you to interpret from a dashboard.
Because they're already out of date. Assembling a handful of systems into a single view by hand takes too long, and the reality it’s trying to convey is stale before it's finished. Visier maps every system into one governed workforce blueprint that updates continuously.
No. Insights surfaces the pattern, like a cost variance or a flight-risk signal, and explains what's driving it. It doesn't make hiring, pay, or termination decisions, and it doesn't act on its own. Every answer goes to a human to interpret and decide what to do with it. Humans are always in the loop.
Governance is built into the data itself. Roles and permissions are enforced at the moment an answer is delivered, so a manager sees their team and nothing else, automatically, whether that answer reaches them through Visier, an AI agent, or a tool you already run.
Workforce AI regulation like the EU AI Act and comparable frameworks emerging in other jurisdictions, are increasingly a board-level compliance question, and specific obligations vary by jurisdiction and use case. Insights is built around the principles regulators are converging on: explainability, auditability, and entitlements enforced at delivery, rather than retrofitted after the fact. We are happy to work with your IT, Legal and AI Center of Excellence teams to illustrate exactly how our governance, security and responsible AI will meet your org’s requirements.
You could start. The hard part isn't building a dashboard, it's everything underneath it: unifying data across systems, keeping it accurate as those systems change, building benchmarks with enough scale to mean something, and enforcing security and governance without fail. Teams that take this on typically spend 12–18 months and a permanent engineering line before they match what Visier delivers in weeks. And that’s before even having to consider owning the maintenance forever.
Both, by design. Insights is configured to your organization (your structure, your definitions, your data sources) rather than a fixed set of reports you conform to. But it's built on the Visier Workforce Intelligence Platform, not coded from scratch, so you get the fit of bespoke with the speed of an off the shelf solution. We can further curate the experience by partnering your org with our professional services team.
Visier's customer base ranges from mid-size enterprises to the largest companies in the world, including credit unions, regional health networks, manufacturers and alongside Fortune 500s. What determines fit is size of workforce and challenges to be solved.
No but it’s helpful to have an analytics lead to manage. Insights is built to run without a dedicated analytics team. The platform does the data unification, benchmarking, and governance work a dedicated analytics team would otherwise assemble by hand. Ask a question in plain language through Vee and get a governed answer back, without writing a query or building a report first. An analytics team makes you faster at setting it up and using it, but it's not a prerequisite for getting value from it.
Most organizations are working from unified, governed answers in weeks, not the 12–18 months+ it takes to build the equivalent internally.
Most people analytics tools surface data, dashboards, and reports for very narrow use cases, and leave the interpretation and ‘so what’ analysis to you. Insights is built with workforce science and benchmarks native to the platform, so you get an answer with context, not just a number. It connects every stage of the employee journey in one model and it reaches any AI agent or system you already run through Visier's MCP.
Pricing structure is based on the number of employees in your organization and will vary depending on specific modules purchased to meet your demands. Best to speak to our sales team to scope out a realistic estimate.