2019
Exploring the Cost of HRMS

Whether you’re exploring the HRMS landscape for the first time or re-evaluating your current solution, you’ll be considering cost. But what does an HCM solution actually cost? How should you estimate your budget, and what returns can you expect to see down the road? Our latest guest blog illustrates the costs and benefits of HRMS…
Read More Exploring the Cost of HRMSHow We Personalized Vista

During our Vista 7 migration, we at Whayne Supply Company decided to embrace our company’s brand culture and personalize Vista with our color scheme and imagery. One of our primary goals of rolling out our new look was to increase employee self-service usage by making pages that were familiar to them and easy to navigate.…
Read More How We Personalized VistaUsing Vista Analytics to Better Understand Our Organization

Have you taken a few minutes to review your organization’s generational breakdown? A multi-generational workforce can be an asset by offering diversity and breadth of experience. Vista Analytics helps us monitor the generational breakdown of our organization and plan accordingly based upon their needs. Here are a few interesting facts (Source: Vistage Corporation Multigenerational Workforce…
Read More Using Vista Analytics to Better Understand Our OrganizationAnalytics Dashboards in Vista 7

If you’re a follower of the PDS Blog, you’ve certainly seen a few posts on the topic of analytics. Analytics are a must-have for an HCM solution—an industry staple, in fact. PDS was ahead of the curve with its support, not just for analytics, but for analytic dashboards: a page within your HCM solution that…
Read More Analytics Dashboards in Vista 7Issue Detective’s Secrets for System Surveillance: Notification #77

For the uninitiated, I am Vista’s Issue Detective. With the help of some “informants,” I seek out data inconsistencies in Vista before they have a chance to disrupt vital Payroll, Benefits, or ACA processes. In my last post, I introduced you to one of my favorite informants and I’ve returned to introduce you to another!…
Read More Issue Detective’s Secrets for System Surveillance: Notification #77Staying One Step Ahead of Identity Theft

Verifying Bank Account and W-4 Changes
Read More Staying One Step Ahead of Identity TheftIssue Detective’s Secrets for System Surveillance: ACA

Greetings! My name is Issue Detective and I’m more than a magnifying glass wearing a fedora; I’m Vista’s most trusted watchman. With my help, data inconsistencies are exposed before they have the chance to disrupt vital processes for Payroll, Benefits, or the Affordable Care Act. These pesky inconsistencies come in many forms: an invalid social…
Read More Issue Detective’s Secrets for System Surveillance: ACAVistaFresh in Vista 7

When VistaFresh was first introduced several years ago to keep your Vista installation up to date, it was an optional tool. But with the release of Vista 7, VistaFresh is now an integral component of your overall system installation. (In fact, even if you are running Vista in the cloud, your service instance is still…
Read More VistaFresh in Vista 7Why We Are Moving Vista to the Cloud

Are you thinking about moving Vista to the cloud? Here at Lezzer Lumber we recently made the decision to move Vista in the cloud. For us moving to the cloud was a long-term strategic decision and we recognized that implementing now made the most sense. But you may be asking yourself, why did we make…
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