Additional Features

Enterprise Server

The PDS e-Assistant is a server-side component of the base PDS Vista product. It provides an array of services, including task scheduling, system account, email directory management, and workflow processing, to extend Vista’s HR functionality. As such, it becomes the link between Vista and the back office, enabling customers to truly automate and integrate the administrative and workflow aspects of the HR process.

Events such as new hires, transfers, terminations, status changes, pay changes, etc. can be initiated, passed along to others for approval, and then processed without taking up time and processing power on a user’s workstation. This can all be done within the Vista system to perform relevant tasks, without keeping track of dependent events, and without having to manually synchronize information with other systems.

Vista EasyAsk

Vista EasyAsk is an integrated query tool for managers and users to access the Vista database directly, without technical assistance or training. With Vista EasyAsk, you can ask questions in simple English language and the tool does the rest automatically and dynamically. Vista EasyAsk translates your question to the programming language your computer requires to access the Vista database and formats the result to your specification. Output can be viewed online or can easily be exported in a variety of formats, such as HTML, spreadsheet, XML, pie chart or bar graph.

Vista EasyAsk can provide responses to a variety of requests including:

Vista Security

Vista’s Security component provides a complete array of security features and options. You control a user’s ability to add, update or delete information by setting up templates that define access to applications and data.

Easy-to-use pull-down menus and system screens make data integrity protection simple, and may not even require a systems security specialist. Full search and reporting capabilities permit you to monitor all online activity. And, as an extra security layer, Vista’s Security component gives you the option to set a password and a specific ID number for each end user.

A separate, distinct security table allows you to authenticate each individual authorized to access information within Vista.This comprehensive Security component also simplifies the process of deploying information across your enterprise. When you are ready to deploy self-service in your organization, the Vista security tool will provide you with an easy method of identifying the appropriate pages that you want to share with staff. Vista also intuitively knows who reports to whom and does not require tedious setup of organizational templates. Simply and easily!

Organization Chart Reporting

Vista integrates with the leading Organization Charting software tools, such as our partner, Human Concepts. Information on your organization that is stored in the Vista database can be easily exported into various formats. Because Vista’s structure includes the reporting relationships in your company, you can create up-to-date organizational charts quickly and easily and publish them across your enterprise.

Position Control

Vista allows you to manage your organization not just from the perspective of employees, but also jobs and positions. You are able to quickly view and modify job and position information, making today's human resources manager more effective.

Also, you can track a wide variety of job and position-related data, including qualifications, applicants, complete history, dates, and budgetary requirements. Based on internal and external dates you select, job postings can be automatically selected and displayed on your corporate web site. Viewing the organization from a hierarchal standpoint also allows uniformity in security templates, workflow management, and directory services. Workflow routing can be dependent on the position or job so that even during change or reorganizations the approval process runs smoothly.

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