Hear from an influential CEO why HR professionals need to ‘step up’ and prioritize workforce analytics as mission critical for their organizations’ success.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - June 18, 2013 - Visier, the innovation leader in workforce analytics, announced today that Visier Co-Founder and CEO John Schwarz, will be the featured guest on this week's The Bill Kutik Radio Show®. 
The Bill Kutik Radio Show is a bi-weekly online talk show hosted by Bill Kutik, a leading independent analyst in the HR technology marketplace. Produced by Knowledge Infusion, an Apprio company, the show features conversations with some of the industry's key thought leaders, including executives from leading technology providers.
John Schwarz, the Co-Founder and CEO of Visier, is an information technology professional and experienced technology industry executive. Among other accomplishments, John successfully led Business Objects, now part of SAP. After SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects, John oversaw a dramatic continuing expansion of its business as a member of the SAP Executive Board. Prior to Business Objects, John held senior executive positions at Symantec and IBM. John is currently a director on the boards of Teradata, Synopsys and Avast and a former board member of SuccessFactors and Verity.
Listen live to John Schwarz on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. EDT (noon) as he and Bill Kutik discuss the 35-year-old question of why HR, unlike colleagues in Marketing, Finance and other lines of business, have lagged so far behind in their adoption of Analytics and the demand for organizations to prioritize Analytics relative to HRIS, Performance and Talent Management information. John will also share his views on how an HR leader or practitioner can get started with Workforce Analytics, and most importantly, why Analytics is becoming more critical in the ongoing War for Talent.
"When John brought together key talent from the former Business Object's team to start Visier three years ago, HR was a natural focus because it is a horizontal application across all enterprises," commented Bill Kutik. "Listen in to find out what's going on at the leading edge of analytics in our world."
John's appearance will air at 12:00 p.m. EDT (noon) on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. To listen and find out more, visit the Bill Kutik Radio show at www.billkutikradioshow.com.
About Bill Kutik
Bill Kutik is considered the leading independent analyst of the HR technology marketplace with specialties in HCM, Recruiting, Talent Management, and social networking. For 23 years, he has been Technology Columnist for Human Resource Executive® (six years for HREonline.com), also serving as co-chairman of the magazine's famous annual HR Technology® Conference & Exhibition, since it began in 1998. The Bill Kutik Radio Show® is now more than five years old. He was named a "Top 25 HR Digital Influencer 2009" and a "Top 100 Influencer." In 2012, Human Resource Executive named him one of the 10 "Most Powerful HR Technology Experts."
About Appirio
Appirio accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve real results from cloud applications and platforms like salesforce.com, Google and Workday. Appirio has worked with more than 300 enterprise customers including organizations like City of Los Angeles, Facebook, Flextronics, Home Depot, International Hotels Group, Japan Post Network, Ltd., L'Oreal, NetApp, NYU, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters and VMware. Appirio’s technology-enabled professional services are supported by a team of 400 cloud experts and CloudSpokes, a 32,000 person-strong global cloud developer community. The company’s expertise and innovative brokerage technology have been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, Gartner and IDC. Appirio has offices in the U.S. and Japan, and is backed by Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital.
About Visier
Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and San Francisco, CA., Visier delivers workforce analytics through the cloud to empower HR professionals with the most critical insights for optimizing their people strategy to meet their business strategy. Visier's unique analytics combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Founded in 2010 by business intelligence experts, including former Business Objects chief executive officer, John Schwarz, the company's leadership team has a proven track record of technical, operational and strategic management success with companies such as IBM, SAP and Symantec.
For more information, visit http://www.visier.com.
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Webinar Advisory: Visier Hosts Complimentary Webinar: “Become the HR Hero of Your Organization—Discover the Power of Visier Workforce Analytics”
Join Dave Weisbeck, Chief Strategy Officer for Visier, as he demonstrates the power, innovation and intuitiveness of Visier Workforce Analytics, and provides a sneak preview of Visier’s Summer’13 product release
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, June 5, 2013—Visier, the innovation leader in workforce analytics, announced today it will be hosting a complimentary webinar “Become the HR Hero of Your Organization—Discover the Power of Visier Workforce Analytics,” on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT. 
Since its founding in 2010, Visier has re-defined how enterprise organizations approach workforce analytics by delivering out-of-the-box HR analytics that combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Visier Workforce Analytics gives business leaders and HR professionals the insight they need to take action to reduce workforce costs, improve productivity, attract and retain top talent, and optimize their people strategy to meet their business strategy.
With the Summer’13 release of Visier Workforce Analytics, Visier extends its leadership in delivering innovation to revolutionize workforce analytics and planning solutions for the enterprise. This webinar is not only a great opportunity to see Visier Workforce Analytics, but also to get a sneak preview of Visier’s Summer’13 release.
Top 5 reasons HR professionals need to attend this webinar and discover Visier’s power for their organization:
5. Seeing is Believing. Sight remains the most powerful sense, and when individuals discover a new insight they say that they “see it.” Visier has not only pioneered new visualizations and new ways to explore data, but has also put information at every user’s fingertips—whether advanced analysts or casual business users—through an intuitive user experience. Seeing is believing. HR professionals are invited to attend and see first-hand the transformative power of Visier Workforce Analytics.
4. Game-Changing Predictive, Comparative and Benchmarking Analysis. With Visier’s transformative visualization technology, explore relationships and visually compare workforce data side-by-side and over time—helping HR professionals and business leaders uncover the critical insights and relationships in their workforce data. Identify key workforce trends and opportunities for performance improvements and predict future outcomes.
3. Share and Collaborate Critical Findings. What good is finding valuable insights about the workforce if users can’t easily share, collaborate and influence decision-makers into action? With Visier, simply click-and-capture any visualization to share key insights and uncovered findings in a PowerPoint presentation. Streamline HR reporting by focusing less on creating reports, and more on the critical insights that stakeholders need.
2. Pre-Built, Out-of-the-Box, Best-Practice HR Analytics. People are complex, and getting the organization aligned on the right critical HR metrics can be even more complex. Visier’s HR metrics simplify the challenging task of answering the most important question in any HR analytics project: What to measure? Out-of-the-box, Visier provides the core metrics, related sub-metrics, and visual analytics to obtain immediate insight, with the flexibility to configure the metrics to fit what is unique about each organization.
1. Guaranteed “WOW” from Anyone Seeing a Visier Demo. Visier Workforce Analytics is designed to be both flexible and highly visual—insightful, intuitive, beautiful, and easy-to-use by anyone who needs to instantly find, understand and take action on the most important insights about the workforce.
By registering for this webinar, attendees will get a sneak peak at Visier’s exciting summer product release, which contains several new dynamic enhancements and capabilities, which will be previewed.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join Dave Weisbeck, Chief Strategy Officer for Visier, for this complimentary one-hour webinar and see first-hand why Visier has been named a proud recipient of Human Resource Executive’s Top HR Product for 2012, named an “Awesome New Technology” at the 15th Annual HR Technology show, and recognized in Gartner’s “Cool Vendor” in Human Capital Management Software 2012 Report, and see how the most powerful workforce analytics solution is also the easiest to use.
The webinar is free to attend but you must register in advance. To register for this complimentary webinar on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT, please visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/504177785.
About Visier
Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and San Francisco, CA., Visier delivers workforce analytics through the cloud to empower HR professionals with the most critical insights for optimizing their people strategy to meet their business strategy. Visier's unique analytics combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Founded in 2010 by business intelligence experts—including former Business Objects chief executive officer, John Schwarz—the company's leadership team has a proven track record of technical, operational and strategic management success with companies such as IBM, SAP and Symantec.
For more information, visit www.visier.com.
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Press Release: Visier Names Steve Bamberger Chief Revenue Officer
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 2013 — Visier, the innovation leader in workforce analytics, today announced that Steve Bamberger has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer, reporting to CEO John Schwarz. Bamberger comes to Visier with twenty-two years of enterprise software experience and will lead Visier’s sales and business development functions.
The appointment of Bamberger to the role of Chief Revenue Officer at Visier coincides with the closing of its series B funding in the amount of $15 million, announced last week. The funds were raised in part to enable expansion of the company’s sales and marketing organization. Details of the funding announcement can be found here: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/visier-secures-15-million-in-series-b-funding-to-fuel-accelerated-growth-209480581.html
“At Visier, we are committed to making our customers successful at transforming their business through deep insight into their people” said John Schwarz, Chief Executive Officer, Visier. “Steve shares this commitment and we are delighted to have him join our team.”
"Business executives need insight, not infrastructure," said Steve Bamberger, Chief Revenue Officer, Visier. "Visier Workforce Analytics provides HR professionals and business leaders with actionable information about their people, presented via a solution that is intuitive and compelling."
Bamberger comes to Visier from San Jose-based Netformx, where he was chief operating officer for the enterprise technology design leader. Prior to Netformx, Bamberger spent seven years at Oracle, where he was vice president of North America sales for Oracle Communications.
Earlier in his career, Bamberger spent seven years with Accenture, and following that he spent fifteen years with Silicon Valley software companies and held executive positions in sales, marketing, and business development with Clarify (now Amdocs), Cygent (now Convergys), Vitria Technology and Siebel Systems.
About Visier
Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and San Francisco, CA., Visier delivers workforce analytics through the cloud to empower HR professionals with the most critical insights for optimizing their people strategy to meet their business strategy. Visier's unique analytics combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Founded in 2010, by business intelligence experts—including former Business Objects chief executive officer, John Schwarz—the company's leadership team has a proven track record of technical, operational and strategic management success with companies such as IBM, SAP and Symantec. The company has received numerous industry awards for its innovative technology and products. For more information, please visit http://www.visier.com.
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There are a small cadre of amazing individuals in the HR space that are truly shaping the future of HR analytics - and David Weisbeck, the Chief Strategy Officer from Visier is one of them! He was kind enough to be interviewed for the readers!
Interview originally published on Around the HR world in 40 days: http://gilberthr.blogspot.ca/2013/05/interview-with-david-weisbeck-cso-of.html
Dave Weisbeck
Chief Strategy Officer, Visier
1. Dave, It really is my honor to be interviewing you - so for the purposes of the readers - what is your overall background?
I started, some 18 years ago now, as a developer helping to build a product known as Crystal Reports. I was drawn to analytics early, and the possibility of using information and data to find amazing insights that could change the course of your actions, your team's priorities, or whole companies. While I started writing code, and I still love the creative side of building products, I also found myself drawn to helping people use analytics. From a career perspective, this meant moving to product management, marketing and general management roles. Crystal Decisions - who made Crystal Reports - was acquired by Business Objects, which in turn was acquired by SAP. I found myself leading the analytics business at SAP as an SVP and GM, when fate called (or John and Ryan as co-founders to Visier) and we started Visier to try to solve this analytics problem in a new way. At Visier I look after strategy - what products we build, and how we market them.
2. If you don't mind, what do you do for fun? If we caught you on a Saturday - what would you be doing?
At this time of the year Saturdays mean taking my son to baseball, which is a ton of fun. But with no other responsibilities, two hobbies vie for my attention - cooking and photography. I've always been drawn to pursuits that have a strong technical side, plus an artistic side. Both food and photography share this as technique, equipment, etc feed the technical side, but these technical pursuits are never enough to create something you'd be proud of. You need the artistry. I think analytics shares this as you need to technically, for example, manage data. But you need the artistry to tell the story of what you've uncovered so people understand it. Lately, I have turned to trying my hand at homebrewing, which shares this artistic and technical pursuit as well.
3. Okay, Given your success at Crystal Reports, you probably could have retired or picked your next job - what made you gravitate to helping HR?
There are practical sides for Visier in this decision. For example, HR has been underserved, and the profound questions that analytics can help people answer tend to exist broadly across companies, industries and even regions. Beyond the practical side, I find people the most fascinating of any aspect of a business. Nothing is done without people - no ideas created, no strategy realized, no plans implemented. And people are also the most complex part of the business, and the most costly. This sets up a situation where the potential gain is the greatest, but the challenge to overcome is also the greatest. Perhaps I just like a challenge, but I think in the end it relates more to a fascination with that squishy part of businesses - people. Without realizing it, most of the business books I've kept and read over the years are about people, so perhaps there is no surprise I was driven to HR.
4. Give us an overview of the VIsier products!
Happy to. Our focus is workforce analytics and planning. Our experience in the business intelligence (BI) market taught us that analytic projects had a few big challenges: they were very costly, took a long time to complete - generally 12 months or more, and end users were dissatisfied with the results. We created Visier with the idea of turning the analytic approach on its head by starting with the end user in mind. HR and business users have key questions in mind they need to answer about their workforce. The traditional BI approach is to, in order: source data from applications, build a datawarehouse, then implement report writers and dashboards, and finally create those reports and dashboards. The users gets involved at the very end when the reports and dashboards are complete, but what if the wrong questions are answered in those reports and dashboards? Then you have to go back to step one to get the data, then update your warehouse, etc. With Visier, we approach this by determining the most important questions first - where to source the best talent, who is likely to leave next, how to optimize your compensation spend, and others - and then make it our responsibility to make the right connections to the data needed, and manage all of the infrastructure for you. As we like to say, you just need a web browser and data in your HR applications, and we'll take care of the rest.
5. Given my readers are a cross section of HR, technology and analytical folks - Brag a bit! What are you doing behind the scenes to run this system? How fast it? What Analytical tools are you using? How many Data Scientists do you have on your team?
There has been this revolution in the analytics world towards Big Data. I was fortunate to be involved in that very early. One of the key technology shifts that enabled Big Data solutions was in-memory technology. What that means for Visier is that all of the processing done on employee records is done lightning fast, and with tremendous flexibility. In practical terms, the performance for companies with 150,000 employees is no different than those with 1500 employees - and we've tested this to over 2.5M employees. Further, we do all of the calculations on the fly, so it doesn't matter if the data you are accessing is indexed or not, and if you want to change the structure of the data? No problem, you can do that on the fly with no performance hit. For the truly technical, some numbers to consider. Modern memory needs 40-billionths of a second to return data. Modern processors can do a billion operations a second. Hard drives take 1-hundredth of a second to return data. So, what that means is 250,000 data fetches could have been returned from memory, and calculations on them performed by the CPU, before one data element came back from the hard drive. But in the end, the technology is fascinating, but it is the questions we can answer that get me most excited.
6. How many customers are using your system(s) today?
We have around 5000 users of the system today, which is spread across about 2 dozen customers in production. And across that about 1.5M employee records are held in our systems.
7. What is your vision for the next couple of things you want to tackle for the HR profession?
I don't think we done more than tap the surface of the profound questions we can answer with analytics. Our vision is to change analytics from a system where today you can ask questions, to a system that highlights key insights for you and prompts you with the best actions. As an intermediate step to that we are heavily investing in a new way to approach workforce planning. Our view is that it has been too divorced from the financial aspects, and too heavily weighted to either only focusing on strategic roles, or only counting headcount for hiring plans. HR has a critical business-impacting role, and we feel they need more help from their tools to analyze, understand, recommend, plan, and help execute business-impactful change.
8. Give a Shout Out! Your User Interfaces and Data Visualizations are very, very impressive - who is doing that piece of the work?
It is, of course, a team sport, but our user interface lead is Max Bitel, who is extremely passionate about design and experience. We are always cautious to highlight that looking cool is one thing, but being intuitive and thoughtful to how people work. So the user experience, not the user interface, is our real goal. But we know that part of the appeal to get broader adoption of analytics will come from some of the "wow" factor when people see beautiful visualizations. I know Max shares this passion for the user experience, but he also deserves the accolades for the wow-factor as well.
9. Since you do an amazing amount of work across clients - what HR analysis have you consistently found to be the most productive and drive the most results?
If I had to narrow down to focusing on immediate financial results, the answer would be retention. People are often surprised to learn the real cost of attrition, which can be 150% of salary for professional roles in organizations. A close second would be on the recruiting side, which also can have longer term strategic benefits. One of the most critical places that HR can directly show its impact to the organization is in filling the talent pipeline with the highest quality talent, and making that talent available when the business needs it. But the business also needs to understand the talent pipeline as all too often they assume that all roles in all locations are equally difficult to hire. When you step back and look at planning the workforce, especially for change or growth, and analyze the labor supply so you can be strategic about how and where you source talent, or how you develop talent, then this can make a real difference for organizations.
10. Last question and Fun One! Given you see so much data - what is one of the funniest moments and/or analysis you have come out with?
It isn't easy to come up with funny moments in data analysis. I'm pretty certain there aren't a lot of comedians making their success with telling data-related stories. But, one story does stand out for me. One of the profound questions we try to answer is who of your top talent is likely to leave the organization next. We once presented this analysis to the head of HR of a large enterprise who had her extended team in the room. They had requested us to show them some of our capabilities including this one to highlight employees at risk and to use their real data. Of course, it happened to work out that one of the employees at risk was in the room during the presentation. Fortunately, everyone in the room saw the humor in the situation.
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Visier Secures $15 Million in Series B Funding to Fuel Accelerated Growth
New round led by Summit Partners and includes existing investor Foundation Capital
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA—(May 30, 2013) —Visier, the innovation leader in workforce analytics and planning solutions, today announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B financing. The round was led by growth equity investor Summit Partners and included existing investor Foundation Capital. Visier will use the capital to fuel investments in innovation and fund strategic growth initiatives that support its aggressive, global go-to-market strategy. -resized-600.png)
Since its founding in 2010, Visier has re-defined how enterprise organizations approach workforce analytics by delivering out-of-the-box HR analytics that combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Visier Workforce Analytics gives business leaders and HR professionals the insight they need to take action to reduce workforce costs, improve productivity, attract and retain top talent, and optimize their people strategy to meet their business strategy.
“Visier’s first two years were spent creating a revolutionary way to approach analytics,” said John Schwarz, Founder and CEO of Visier. “Since taking that solution to the market last year, customers have consistently told us they have never seen anything like Visier, and they are delighted with how Visier Workforce Analytics is helping to transform their businesses. With this capital infusion from top-tier investors Summit Partners and Foundation Capital, Visier will accelerate the release of new product offerings, continue to drive innovation in analytics, and grow market share through international expansion.”
Led by business intelligence visionaries including former Business Objects CEO John Schwarz, Visier’s leadership team has a proven track record of successful technical, operational and strategic management with companies including Business Objects, Crystal Decisions, SAP, IBM and Symantec.
“Visier is a market leader in the workforce analytics software industry. The company has created an amazing experience for business users, and solved the challenge of delivering real business insight—not analytic infrastructure—through the cloud in a fraction of the time required to get traditional analytics solutions up and running,” said Greg Goldfarb, a Managing Director with Summit Partners who is joining the Visier Board. “As a long-time investor in software companies, Summit Partners is pleased to support this extraordinary management team that has built a rapidly growing company that is so focused on delivering business value to its customers.”
Visier is the choice of enterprise leaders that understand their greatest investment is their people. Representative customers include ConAgra Foods, CareFusion, Informatica, and Hyatt Hotels.
About Visier
Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. and San Francisco, CA, Visier delivers workforce analytics through the cloud to empower HR professionals with the most critical insights for optimizing their people strategy to meet their business strategy. Visier's unique analytics combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Founded in 2010 by business intelligence experts–including former Business Objects CEO John Schwarz–the company's leadership team has a proven track record of technical, operational and strategic management success with companies such as IBM, SAP and Symantec. The company has received numerous industry awards for its innovative technology and products. For more information, please visit http://www.visier.com.
About Foundation Capital
At Foundation Capital, we’re dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. We helped Atheros create the mobile Internet, EnerNOC invent the energy demand response market, and Netflix revolutionize media distribution and consumption, among many others. We're currently invested in more than 80 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, semiconductors, and clean technology including BoardVantage, Chegg, Coverity, Lending Club, MobileIron, Simply Hired, Sunrun, TubeMogul and Venafi. Foundation Capital’s eighteen initial public offerings include Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks. For more information, please visit http://www.foundationcapital.com.
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Summit Partners (http://www.summitpartners.com) is a growth equity firm that invests in growing companies across North America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1984, Summit has raised nearly $15 billion in capital and provides equity and credit for growth, recapitalizations, and management buyouts. Summit has invested in more than 365 companies globally in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. These companies have completed 130 public offerings, and more than 135 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. Notable investments in the software sector include: Clearwater Analytics, McAfee, RightNow Technologies, Hyperion Software, GoldenGate Software, Postini, ProClarity and Unica. Summit Partners has offices in Boston, Menlo Park, London and Mumbai.
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Will you be attending IHRIM's HRMS Strategies Technology Conference & Expo, June 2-5, 2013 at Disney's Contemporary Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida?
If so, please come visit the VISIER BOOTH #417 and check out the “New Face of Workforce Analytics,” and see first-hand how we are revolutionizing HR analytics.
Visier is pleased to be exhibiting at The International Association for Human Resource Information Management's (IHRIM) 33rd Annual HRMS Strategies Conference & Technology Exposition, June 3-4, 2013, at the Disney Contemporary Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The IHRIM Technology Exposition is the only niche specific exposition that focuses specifically on HR technology and the related consulting!
Human capital is the cornerstone of a successful business, yet human capital is currently one of the least measured and analyzed investments for organizations today, even though according to a survey conducted by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), the total cost of a workforce represents nearly 70% of the operating expenses for Fortune 500 companies. Historically, organizations have thought of their workforce in terms of the physical sum of their employees. However, the true human capital investment is defined as the total amount and quality of talent, knowledge, expertise, experience and training that their employees possess—all which significantly impacts the productivity and profitability of an organization.
Since its founding in 2010, Visier has re-imagined and re-defined how enterprise organizations approach workforce analytics by delivering out-of-the-box, best practice HR analytics, that combine the sophistication of predictive capabilities with the ease-of-use of consumer applications. Visier’s best-in-class, innovative workforce analytics and planning solutions have become synonymous with combining powerful, intuitive and interactive analytics with leading-edge visualization technology, that empowers business leaders and HR professionals to see the connections in their HR data and find the insight they need to take action. Reduce workforce costs, improve productivity, attract and retain top talent, and plan workforce strategies to support key business objectives.
Visier is the proud recipient of the Human Resource Executive’s Top HR Product for 2012, and named as an “Awesome New Technology” at the 15th Annual HR Technology show, and named in Gartner’s "Cool Vendor" in Human Capital Management Software 2012 Report, is an innovation leader in delivering workforce analytics through the cloud, to empower HR professionals with the most critical insights for optimizing their people strategy to meet their business strategy.
Visier is revolutionizing the landscape of workforce analytics and planning solutions with innovation that continues to amaze. Visier continues to be the choice of enterprise leaders that understand their greatest investment is their people.
What sets Visier apart from all the rest offering workforce analytics solutions? It is our undeniable “WOW Factor!”
If you will be attending the event June 3-4, 2013 at Disney's Contemporary Resort, please stop by VISIER BOOTH #417 to meet our Visier Team and be "WOWED" by seeing a live demo.
In advance of the show, please feel free to Download our Datasheet to learn more about Visier and "Move from HR Metrics to Powerful Workforce Analytics!"
VISIER TEAM EXHIBITING AT BOOTH #417
Ian Cook, Product Success, Visier
Ian is responsible for product success at Visier. Along with the development team he is focused on creating and deploying the powerful answers that make Visier's application unique. He has over 15 years of experience consulting to global firms on building high performance organizations which deliver the best return on human capital. Over the last 5 years Ian built the HR Metrics Service, which is now Canada’s leading source of HR bench-marking data. Recognized as an expert in the area of workforce analytics and organizational performance Ian is a sought after speaker and writer on this topic.
Jan Schwarz, Sales, Visier
Jan is responsible for Visier's sales and customer relationships. He is a serial entrepreneur and over the last 8 years has founded and run software, marketing and publishing companies. Previously, Jan spent 8 years developing much of his customer and partner experience with IBM - initially with large enterprise financial companies and more recently as a Sales Manager for their Small and Medium Business team. His primary focus was on building multi-million dollar business relationships and growing revenue with some of IBM's most important software industry customers.
Jeff Kays, Sales, Visier
Jeff Kays is a 25 year veteran of the information technology and telecommunications industries. As a senior sales & marketing executive he has helped start-up and early stage growth companies consistently exceed their revenue, profitability and valuation objectives. Prior to joining the Visier, Jeff held senior leadership positions with DataCore Software, The Texas Institute, AltiGen Communications and Alliance Systems. Under his leadership Alliance Systems grew from $10 million to over $100 million in annual revenues.
Date: May 30-31, 2013
Location: Online
Cost: Complimentary
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VISIER IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIRTUAL EVENT!
Stop by our VIRTUAL BOOTH ONLINE – Review our collateral and leave your business card!
Workforce Planning is the business process for ensuring that an organization has suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. Access to talent includes considering all potential access sources (employment, contracting out, partnerships, changing business activities to modify the types of talent required, etc.). Learn about the latest industry trends from your desk!
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The Institute for Human Resources (IHR), the certification and accreditation process arm of HR.com, has a program for you! Many HR professionals have a general HR degree or certification with a wide spectrum of HR functionalities learned. The IHR is the only institute that focuses on niche areas within Human Resources. A specialty certification increases your market value, adds value to your work experience, furthers your knowledge, and recognizes you as an industry leader and/or expert in the field.
WEBCAST: “STEP UP HR” – DRIVE THE BUSINESS THROUGH WORKFORCE ANALYTICS, HOSTED BY HR.COM
Date: June 12, 2013
Time: 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET
Duration: One Hour
Cost: Complimentary
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For a long time the promise of workforce analytics and the subsequent benefits for HR have been described in the media. However, most HR groups are still just reporting day-to-day activities, using spreadsheets and tables. These outputs do little to affect business results and hold HR back from being the strategic player that business leaders are looking for.
It is time for HR to step up and use the analytics tools available to them to engage the business and demonstrate real value. Executives and line of business leaders have been asking for this level of contribution for years and it is even more clear now that people data can enhance business results. Complacency and inaction will not get HR to the next level of strategic impact.
In this complimentary one-hour webinar, Ian Cook, Product Success leader for Visier, will outline the 4 stages that HR needs to work through in order to “step up” and deliver strategic value from workforce analytics.
In this webinar, you will learn:
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How to overcome common data barriers
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How to save time and money on your analytics program
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How to deploy best practices for reporting and dashboards
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How to meet the needs of all business stakeholders
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And more.
Join Ian Cook, Product Success leader for Visier, on Wednesday, June 12th at 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT, as he outlines the 4 stages that HR needs to work through in order to “step up” and deliver strategic value from workforce analytics.
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Why spreadsheets and basic reporting are no longer good enough
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How to make your workforce analytics a source of strategic impact by following 4 key steps
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How modern approaches to workforce analytics are saving time and money
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How to demonstrate an ROI from the workforce analytics program
Too often workforce analytics is viewed as a “data problem” and moves from HR to IT. This seriously undermines the value of the insights gained. Through the 4 stages that will be explained by Visier you will learn how to keep HR at the core of your workforce analytics program and delivering maximum value to the business.
Note: Even if you can’t make the date, please register and we will send you a link to the on-demand webinar when it’s available.
If you are a CHRO, VP of HR, VP of HRIS, VP Workforce Planning or Analytics, or responsible for ensuring your organization is getting the most from its workforce strategy investment – register HERE today
IAN COOK, PRODUCT SUCCESS
Ian is responsible for product success at Visier. Along with the development team he is focused on creating and deploying the powerful answers that make Visier’s application unique. He has over 15 years of experience consulting to global firms on building high performance organizations which deliver the best return on human capital. Over the last 5 years Ian built the HR Metrics Service, which is now Canada’s leading source of HR bench-marking data. Recognized as an expert in the area of workforce analytics and organizational performance Ian is a sought after speaker and writer on this topic.
Workforce analytics, as part of a complete talent management strategy, is critical for HR professionals as it enables them to connect the dots between their company’s overall performance and their investment in their workforce. With insights from data HR leaders can clearly identify and communicate to executive leaders precisely where their company’s investments in human capital are paying off and, more importantly, where they are falling short and why.
Business leaders need people to do the work and they need HR to supply real-time accurate data to help them make smarter decisions about their workforce. HR leaders must understand the business strategy and work with senior-level executives and front-line managers to determine, develop, and source the right talent to achieve the companies’ objectives.
In this archived recording, "Supercharge Your Talent Management Strategy with the Power of Workforce Analytics," Dave Weisbeck, Chief Strategy Officer for Visier and Sonny Yuen, Business Development Manager, Technology for Cornerstone OnDemand, discuss how organizations can take the next step to get the greatest return on their talent, by supercharging their HR initiatives with the power of workforce analytics.
In this on-demand webinar, you will learn about:
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The state of the art in talent management, and how an integrated talent management suite can ensure you are successful from talent sourcing to retirement
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How workforce analytics extends the talent management suite to highlight trends and insights across sources of information to power both strategic and operational decision making
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How Cornerstone and Visier have teamed together to provide solve the challenge of measuring and executing on your talent vision
ABOUT GUEST PRESENTER
SONNY YUEN, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR TECHNOLOGY AT CORNERSTONE ONDEMAND
Sonny Yuen is Business Development Manager for Technology at Cornerstone OnDemand. In this role, Sonny is responsible for building an ecosystem of world-class technology partners capable of delivering solutions for organizations’ most vexing talent management challenges. At Cornerstone Sonny has also been tasked with building out the channel sales enablement team and leading product marketing efforts during the launch of the company’s Recruiting Cloud and Volunteer Management solutions.Prior to Cornerstone, Sonny ran the consulting partner program for SuccessFactors. He also built the Tata Consultancy Services Salesforce.com implementation practice after six years at Siebel Systems managing various strategic alliance partnerships across both software and services.
Sonny holds a BA in Communication Studies from the California State University of Northridge and also studied in the University of Arizona’s School of Communication
ABOUT HOST
DAVE WEISBECK, CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER, VISIER
Dave Weisbeck leads the overall solutions success and strategy at Visier. Dave is a seasoned software executive who has experience ranging from building development teams to growing multi-billion dollar businesses as a General Manager. Prior to joining Visier, Dave spent over 15 years in the information management and analytics industry, which included time spent helping to build Crystal Decisions and Business Objects products and product strategy. Most recently Dave was the Senior Vice President and General Manager responsible for Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Management and Data Warehousing at SAP.
Here are the latest product updates for Visier Workforce Analytics.
Compare and Analyze Workforce Data Side-by-Side and Across Time.
Drill-down in visuals:
Quickly navigate and explore any hierarchy (such as your organizational or location structure) right inside any bar chart by clicking on a bar to expand it and see its make-up.
New Comparison Workflow:
We have added powerful comparison functionality to allow you to compare and contrast to get rapid insight.
Time comparison:
You can compare multiple time periods side-by-side in the bar chart, as well as select any two periods to visualize the change that occurred.
Metric comparison:
You can now compare multiple metrics side-by-side to see relationships between them.
Employee group comparison:
Define groups of employees based on any set of characteristics and compare these groups side-by-side, as well as select any two groups to visualize the difference between them.
3 comparison ‘views’ in the bar chart:
When doing comparisons you can change the bar chart to display the comparison items via column-view, side-by-side view, as well as ‘difference’ view.
Variance Analysis in the historical trend visual:
Easily visualize the variance between any two series over time or select a single series and set it as a baseline to see how all other series vary relative to it.
Internal Benchmarking – custom defined relevant comparators
In addition to the current peer and parent organization internal benchmarking, you can now define a custom set of relevant comparator organizations for an org. unit.
Default Content for users
Specify a default set of Dashboards and Slideshows that different users or user groups see in the application.
