Visier
by Visier Inc. · HCM Extensions
AI-powered people analytics and workforce planning platform for HR and business leaders.
Updated August 2026 · By the ERP Research Editorial Team · Independent and vendor-neutral.
- Works with
SAP
Oracle
Workday- Deployment
- Cloud
- Company size
- Mid-market, Enterprise
- Pricing
- Quote-based
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Overview
Visier is a workforce intelligence platform that unifies HR, talent, and business data into a single analytics layer, positioned to help HR and business leaders "see the workforce you have" and "build the one you need." Its flagship product, Visier People, ships with a library of pre-built metrics and analyses covering the employee lifecycle -- headcount, turnover, compensation, diversity, internal mobility, and skills -- so customers get working dashboards without building a data warehouse or BI layer from scratch.
The platform pulls data from HRIS, ATS, performance, engagement, and collaboration systems through pre-built connectors (SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle Fusion, UKG, Dayforce, BambooHR, Greenhouse, iCIMS and others), plus generic API, JDBC, SFTP and manual-upload paths for anything not natively supported. On top of the data layer, Visier runs Vee, a generative-AI agent trained on a large base of anonymized employee records and benchmark data, which answers natural-language people questions inside the Visier platform, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Copilot (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and via a Visier MCP server that exposes governed people data to third-party AI agents such as ChatGPT and Claude.
Visier also sells Workforce Planning (scenario modeling for headcount, skills and org design, tied to financial planning) and Visier Embedded, an OEM offering that lets other software vendors and internal platforms embed Visier's semantic layer and workforce analytics into their own products. The company is privately held, based in Vancouver, Canada, and reports its analytics are used by more than 160 Fortune 500 companies.
Screenshots & demo
Demo video from the vendor's YouTube channel. Screenshots sourced from Visier Inc..
Modules & capabilities
Visier covers 16 of 61 capabilities we track in this category
26%- Centralized employee master dataNot evidenced
- Org chart & organizational structureNot evidenced
- Document management & eSignatureNot evidenced
- HR workflow automationNot evidenced
- Time & attendance trackingNot evidenced
- Leave & absence managementNot evidenced
- Custom fields & configurable recordsNot evidenced
- Role-based access & audit trailDynamic role-based access control at the row and column levelCore strength
“Not evidenced” means our research found no public documentation of this capability — the vendor may still offer it. Confirm on a demo.
Common use cases
- Giving HR and business leaders self-serve access to headcount, turnover and compensation metrics without building custom dashboards
- Answering ad hoc people questions in Slack or Teams via Vee instead of filing a request with the analytics team
- Modeling hiring, restructuring or skills-alignment scenarios before committing to a workforce plan
- Connecting workforce and financial planning so labor spend decisions are made against a shared data set
- Benchmarking an organization's turnover, promotion or compensation metrics against industry peers
- Embedding workforce analytics inside an HR-tech vendor's own product via Visier Embedded
- Scheduling recurring people-analytics reports (e.g. monthly retention-risk summaries) to line managers
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- Ships with thousands of pre-built workforce metrics and analyses rather than requiring customers to model their own semantic layer
- Vee is trained specifically on people-analytics data and is delivered inside existing workflow tools (Slack, Teams, Microsoft Copilot) rather than as a standalone chatbot
- Visier MCP Server gives governed, permissioned access to people data for third-party AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude), an unusual move for an HR analytics vendor
- Embedded Analytics lets other software vendors OEM Visier's data layer and AI instead of building workforce analytics in-house
- Over 160 Fortune 500 companies are customers, per Visier's own customer stories page
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Rate itERP integrations
Read-only connector pulling HR and workforce data from SAP SuccessFactors via OData APIs, using OAuth 2.0 with X.509 certificates; delta or full loads.
Oracle Fusion connector with quick-onboarding object generation, documented in Visier's Studio developer docs.
Workday API, Workday Reports-as-a-Service, and Workday Query Language (beta) connectors documented in Visier's Studio developer docs.
Connector details independently verified against vendor marketplaces and documentation; last checked 2026-08-20.
Pricing
Full Visier pricing breakdown — cost at 25/100/500 seats, competitor rates & FAQs
Visier does not publish pricing on its website; plans are quoted by sales based on organization size and modules selected. Get an independent shortlist with pricing guidance below.
What does Visier cost?
Visier does not publish a price. This is the going rate across the 3 HCM extensions vendors that do — use it to sense-check the quote you get.
Technical & security
- Hosting
- SaaS (multi-tenant)
- Compliance
- SOC 2, CSA STAR Level 1
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)
About the vendor
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Employees
- ~600
- Ownership
- Private (venture-backed; Series E led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 2021, reaching a ~$1B valuation)
- Notable customers
- Providence, Experian, Standard Bank, eBay, Sunstate Equipment, Printpack
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Visier — frequently asked questions
What ERP and HR systems does Visier integrate with?
Visier offers pre-built connectors for SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle Fusion, UKG, Dayforce, BambooHR, Greenhouse, iCIMS and other HRIS/ATS systems, plus generic API, JDBC, SFTP and manual-upload paths for anything not natively supported.
What is Vee?
Vee is Visier's generative-AI agent for people analytics. It answers natural-language questions about an organization's own workforce data and is available inside the Visier platform, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Copilot (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Does Visier publish pricing?
No. Visier does not list prices publicly; pricing is quote-based and depends on the organization's size and the modules selected, and is provided through a sales conversation.
Is Visier's analytics limited to HR teams?
No. Visier is designed for self-serve use by business leaders and managers as well as HR and analytics teams, and its Workforce Planning product is built to be used jointly by HR, Finance and business leaders.
Can other software vendors embed Visier's analytics into their own products?
Yes. Visier Embedded lets partners embed Visier's semantic layer and workforce analytics -- including natural-language Q&A -- inside their own applications, either stand-alone or as part of the partner's own AI stack.
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