Visier and Leading Skills Intelligence Providers Launch Open Skills Initiative to Address AI Workforce Transformation

Business leaders can now assess existing employee skills and proactively plan for an AI-augmented workforce

VANCOUVER, BC, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Visier, the globally recognized leader in Workforce AI solutions, announced today the launch of an Open Skill Initiative (OSI), in collaboration with founding partners TechWolf, Fuel50, Lightcast, and Revelio Labs. The OSI is a group of best-in-class workforce skills intelligence providers joining forces to transform how businesses address critical skills challenges driven by AI adoption in the workplace and surging retirement numbers.

By integrating data from the skills intelligence providers with Visier's people data platform, business leaders can rapidly gain the deep insights into their workforce's capabilities needed to meet current goals and prepare for an AI-driven future. Using Visier's Vee, a natural language AI interface, business leaders can answer critical questions about employee skills and other vital employee information such as:

• Which skill gaps are the highest priority to solve today?
• Who will be retiring this year and who has the skillset to replace the work they do?
• Which strategies will be most effective in closing my skill gaps, e.g. automation, upskill, retrain, transfer employees, or hire new?

According to Gary Russo, Executive Director of Workforce Intelligence at Providence Health & Services, "Bringing together people analytics and skills data will help us innovate in our sourcing and career pathing strategy, ensuring we have reliable sources of the right talent with the right skills, now and into the future."

"The rapid introduction of AI across every department in organizations is accelerating the need for worker upskilling and reskilling," said Keith Bigelow, Senior VP and Chief Product Officer at Visier. "By combining comprehensive workforce analytics and planning with skills information, Visier helps companies agilely adapt and create a future-ready workforce." 

Whether designing current or future AI-enabled workforces, seamless information exchange within the OSI framework will accelerate decision-making for business leaders. It will help organizations complete the critical steps of continuous workforce planning within enterprise and strategic organizations. Using Visier's award-winning People Data Platform, organizations can now analyze and visualize the impact of key business metrics such as costs, retention, promotions, and diversity through a skills-focused perspective, to help them adapt to changing business needs.

"TechWolf's AI products are a core part of the data foundation for enterprise workforce transformation, while Visier is the powerful dashboard that combines TechWolf's data with other powerful sources." said Yasamin Karimi, VP of Product at TechWolf. "Together, we are empowering organizations to easily ask key questions, gain critical workforce insights, and make smarter, data-driven decisions for better workforce planning."

For a video demonstration of ingesting skills data from TechWolf and the Visier people data platform, click here.

Building Employee Skills Profiles

To amplify the value of the rich skills data and insights from its partners, Visier leverages its award-winning analytics capabilities to illuminate critical business problems. In doing so, Visier eliminates the complex work of building and maintaining an accurate always-ready set of skills insights:

• Reducing business risk by aligning workforce capabilities and bridging skill gaps.
• Retaining critical talent by offering reskilling and upskilling paths.
• Initiating workforce transformation planning with remote work and automation insights.
• Increasing revenue and strengthening market competitiveness by ensuring workforces have the right skills to execute their business strategy.
• Reducing hiring costs by reducing dependency on external talent and maximizing internal mobility.
• Improving workforce productivity by aligning employees with roles where their skills are best utilized.

"We've long believed that skills data is the foundation for impactful talent decisions," said Sean Sampayo, Chief Product Officer at Fuel50. "By partnering with Visier, we're helping organizations unlock the full potential of their workforce by enhancing workforce intelligence and enabling smarter talent strategies."

"To navigate talent shortages, the AI-driven job evolution, and demographic shifts, organizations need both internal and external skill insights," said Cole Napper, VP of Research & Innovation, Lightcast. "The Lightcast and Visier partnership empowers this by providing real-time industry, competitor, and in-demand skills data for every role to support business continuity and unlock a competitive advantage in an era of rapid workforce transformation."

"This partnership between Visier and Revelio Labs will help organizations adapt to the constantly evolving occupational landscape by giving them the structure and fidelity they need to properly understand their workforce, especially as they grapple with AI and technological automation that reconfigures the task composition of jobs," said Ben Zweig, CEO, Revelio Labs.

About Visier
Visier gives organizations a Workforce AI Edge: a set of AI-powered capabilities that help leaders understand the relationship between people and work, elevate the productivity of their employees, and win by adapting to change faster. The company is the global leader in AI-powered people analytics, workforce planning, and compensation allocation. All Visier technology is underpinned by its Real-time People Data Platform, which uses AI to unlock the business-transforming potential of people data, work data, and the fusion of both. Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, Visier has over 65,000 customers in 75 countries—including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Experian, Amgen, eBay, Ford Motor Company, and more. To learn more about Visier, visit www.visier.com.

About Fuel50

Fuel50's Talent Intelligence Platform is dedicated to solving the skills crisis with the industry's only expert-driven skills ontology. By offering curated skill development, career pathing, and actionable insights, Fuel50 helps organizations close skill gaps and build dynamic, successful teams. To learn more about Fuel50, visit www.fuel50.com.

About TechWolf

TechWolf is a Belgian-based AI company providing an API-first Skill infrastructure for large company CHROs who are dissatisfied with their ability to make data-driven people decisions, despite investing in a myriad of talent applications. TechWolf's advanced AI creates high-quality skill profiles by leveraging data from systems where employees do their work, unlike traditional applications that are only using limited and siloed HR data. Notable customers include GSK, HSBC, United Airlines, Synopsys, IQVIA, KBC, Booking.com and KLM. To learn more about TechWolf, visit www.techwolf.com.

About Lightcast 

Lightcast provides trusted global labor market data, analytics, and expert guidance that empowers communities, corporations, and learning providers to make informed decisions and navigate the increasingly complex world of work. With a database of more than one billion job postings and career profiles, our team provides best-in-class customer service with robust data, clear analysis, and expert guidance on skills, jobs, and opportunities. Lightcast is active in more than 30 countries and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and India. To learn more about Lightcast, visit www.lightcast.io.

About Revelio Labs

Revelio Labs absorbs and standardizes hundreds of millions of public employment records to create the world's first universal workforce database. The company's team of data scientists, economists, and engineers deliver valuable workforce analytics to customers including investors, corporate strategists, HR teams, and governments, empowering them to make actionable, data driven decisions. Learn more at www.reveliolabs.com.

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Visier
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Fuel50
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TechWolf
Maaike Standaert
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Lightcast
Cara Christopher
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Revelio Labs
Tara Kirkpatrick
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SOURCE Visier