Meet Vee, Visier’s Generative AI Digital Assistant

Editors note: This post was updated on August 31, 2024 to include the latest updates about Vee, featured in this top section. Read the full post below, which includes more detailed examples of these updates.

Catch up on the latest updates about Vee

• Vee asks clarifying questions. With every release, Vee behaves more like a virtual analyst. Vee now asks users for clarification when it's unsure or needs a little more detail. When Vee needs clarification or more detail, it now asks clarifying questions and provides suggestions. Users can type a response or choose one of the suggestions Vee provides.

• Vee can be fine-tuned to understand your organization's internal shorthand and commonly used terms. If you’re going to deploy Vee to a large population of users in your organization, you want to make it as smooth an experience as possible. Now, you can configure Vee to understand your organization's internal vernacular so your employees can use the language they’re already accustomed to using day-to-day.

• Vee offers an expanded library of suggested questions so users can get started quickly, even if they aren’t sure what to ask. Users can browse metric questions, prompts to craft a visual, and suggested comparisons to start a conversational inquiry. 

Vee, Visier’s generative AI digital assistant, instantly answers workforce-specific questions for HRBPs, line managers, and CHROs—securely and accurately—helping to democratize people insights to all levels of an organization. Built specifically for HR and people analytics, Vee is anchored in a domain-specific data model, a community dataset built on 25 million anonymized employee records, more than 2,000 business metrics, and 250 million benchmarks. 

Vee’s powerful yet simple conversational interface seamlessly integrates into daily workflows, accessible within Visier People® and Microsoft Teams through our integration. 

Vee is designed for enterprise-level scale and security and is also the foundation for Vee for Partners, which dramatically accelerates generative AI product roadmaps for people tech SaaS vendors and solution providers.

Why generative AI for people analytics?

The potential of generative AI is massive, and its impact on people analytics will be monumental. Why? Three common obstacles stand in the way of a breakthrough people analytics program:

1. Gaining broad end-user adoption 

2. Getting answers to questions quickly 

3. Interpreting data correctly 

Generative AI can blast past those friction points and make self-serve analytics a reality at an unprecedented pace. Vee will radically improve end-user adoption, deliver insights instantaneously, and elevate your organization’s data literacy—all in one fell swoop.

What does Visier’s Vee do?

Vee adds a simple conversational interface to people analytics, supplementing charts and graphs with narrative answers to complex people questions. This new capability puts the right insights into the hands of any people leader who has questions about their workforce.

Vee translates natural language questions into Visier’s queries, returning accurate and perfectly crafted narrative answers without relying on proprietary customer data. Vee makes the power of people analytics accessible to anyone—even those who are less comfortable interpreting charts and graphs.

While some workforce data is available to many people leaders today, they may be challenged in knowing where to find that data, and how to ask questions that provide actionable insights. With Vee, their digital assistant can learn and react to these questions to pinpoint the right information from the completely secure Visier platform—and explain these insights in a way people leaders can confidently utilize.

Vee makes it easier than ever before for people leaders to ask, explore, and take action

Ask

Ask Vee any question about your workforce and it will provide the answers in simple narrative form. 

NEW! Vee enables users to get started quickly, even if they aren't sure what to ask. Users can browse sample questions, prompts to craft a visual, and suggested comparisons to start a conversational inquiry. 

If Vee needs more information or doesn’t understand the question, it will ask users for clarification and provide clickable suggested questions.

Explore

Drill deeper into the data with help from Vee, making it easy to explore more specific datasets and easily compare data across any dimension you choose.

Or see how you stack up versus benchmarks.

Take action

Vee delivers insights to managers across the business so they can take small, everyday actions that add up to big change.

People insights integrated with your workflow tools

In addition to using Vee inside Visier People, our integration with Microsoft Teams allows organizations to ask Vee questions in the flow of their daily work. Managers throughout the organization can get valuable insights and data related to their teams and departments—without having to go into Visier People—by simply asking the question via Microsoft Teams.

Fine-tune Vee to communicate with your organization

NEW! Vee can now be fine-tuned to your organization's commonly used terms. For example, in a retail organization, you may want to configure Vee to understand that “associates”, “store workers”, and “blue vests” are all synonyms for a specific category of employee. Synonyms like these can easily be set up in the Vee administration panel. That way, anyone in your organization chatting with Vee can use the language they’re already accustomed to using day-to-day.

4 things that make Vee unique

With all of the recent news and announcements about generative AI from HR technology providers, why is Visier’s solution special? It boils down to four things.

1. Accuracy and Visier’s proprietary underlying data model

Generative AI is only as good as the underlying data it’s trained on. Visier not only brings together all of the disparate data across your HR tech stack, but we also have the content, questions, answers, metrics, and supporting knowledge to understand what the data means and how to explain it to end users. Generative AI makes asking questions easier than ever, and only Visier has the scope of information needed to draw accurate conclusions to nearly any question. Unlike some generative AI tools making headlines, Vee won’t accidentally hallucinate or return inaccurate data because Vee is trained on our proprietary model.

2. Visier’s best-in-class privacy and security model

Most consumer-facing generative AI applications, like ChatGPT, draw from a massive collection of public information available across the Internet. But building a generative AI application for enterprise organizations is a different challenge because much of the underlying data is private and, in some cases, highly sensitive. To support these privacy demands, a robust security model must be at the core of any solution.

Visier has the most advanced security model and permissions available, ensuring the results returned by Vee are only to authorized end-users based on their assigned security model and associated permissions. This means that Vee’s answers from one person to another, while both accurate, will be different.

3. Visier’s unparalleled speed and performance

Visier can uniquely telescope up or down in the organization, just as easily responding to queries about an individual employee or summarizing insights about tens of thousands of employees nearly instantly. Because generative AI works best as a continuous conversation, only Visier can provide insights into the flow of conversation without waiting for reports to run slow queries against antiquated databases.

4. Vee is part of Visier's people data platform

Have an application or workflow you want to enable with a generative AI-based conversational interface? No problem. The services enabling Vee are part of Visier's real-time people data platform and will be available as an optional service of the platform for embedded partners and other platform users.

Learn more

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