Embedded Analytics in SaaS Applications
Embedded Analytics in SaaS Applications
Summary
Developing and implementing analytics can be a heavy lift for software vendors. The Visier People Data Platform makes it easy for organizations to reconcile their application data, map it to a impactful people data model that includes metrics and calculations and surface insights through embeddable visualizations. Builders have often turned around an analytics solution ready for the market in roughly 3-6 months.
Problems to be solved
For development managers, building a solution that is fast, reliable and doesn't break the bank with technology costs is a careful balance. Hiring and maintaining the right skills to be able to maintain this solution over time can also be a challenge.
People data is prone to things like backdating and corrections long after an employee event has happened like promotions or even exits. The supporting infrastructure for people data also needs to reflect these changes quickly as they happen.
As product designing and building a solution that harnesses the power of analytics but make it simple and accessible is a challenge. Surfacing the right insights that will drive impact for customers is a long and iterative process.
Solution
The Visier People Data Platform makes it easy for software development teams to integrate application, leverage pre-built analytics content and embed analytics in existing and new applications.
The Visier People Data Platform has a number of means to quickly bring in application data and incorporating it with other sources like benchmark data. Visier's event-based transformation quickly detects and cleans up application data in preparation for use in analytics.
The People Data Model has thousands of pre-built calculations and metrics that have been honed and refined for key people questions that drive business impact. These metrics are available by domain and include pre-built visualizations that can be remixed to the unique needs of development teams.
The Analytics Suite also includes user-friendly interfaces to slice and dice data to adapt insights to the unique circumstances of customers. Vee for Partners, a purpose-built genAI solution, allows users to query at the speed of thought through a chat-based interface.
There are also a number of ways to embed analytics into an existing application. This embedding also scales to multi-tenant architectures so you don't have to build insights on a customer-by-customer implementation.
How it Works
Using Visier's APIs, including Visier's JDBC Connector, you can consolidate data from a variety of sources.
Visier's proprietary event-based transformation process cleans up the application data, applies desired rules as well as organizes and extracts key event data.
Then the data is mapped to the robust People Data Model which contains thousands of metrics and calculations across HR domains. Within the People Data Warehouse you can configure and manage the data for downstream use including adjusting metrics, applying security and modifying model calculations.
From here the data can then be surfaced and accessed through the Analytics Suite which contains pre-built content as well as tools to build or remix content. There are also standard visualizations or people-specific visualizations that can be used to build visualizations for embedding.
Surfacing this data to end users can happen in a variety of ways. First is that the genAI tool Vee for Partners can be integrated within an application and queries against Visier's People Data Model (instead of the underlying data) for secure and reliable insights. Analytic visualizations and other content can be embedded within your application user interface. Finally your own teams can access metrics and calculations within BI tools like Tableau or PowerBI.
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Solutions
Github: Embedding Exemplar
See how to embed Visier's analytic visualizations into your application.
Docs: Embed Visualizations in Your App
Explore different ways you can use Visier’s UX in your solution
Docs: Data Intake Integrations
Learn more about Visier's data intake integrations
Docs: Pre-built People Data Model for SaaS
Learn how to build with Visier's robust People Data Model for SaaS applications
Docs: Specialized Visualizations
See Visier’s visualizations purpose-built for people analytics
Docs: Visualizations
Explore in Developer Docs the visualization types available in Visier.
Docs: Analytics Suite
Details on Visier's easy self-service experience for delivering analytical insights either through pre-built content or content you can build yourself.