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Data is the heart of analytics. In Vista, that means data from your Vista SQL database. PDS provides predefined views, functions, and procedures, making much of that data easy to access. However, there are times when your data needs (what you need and the way you need it) are more involved. If you’re database-savvy, there’s…
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Download our free whitepaper on The Need for Workforce Analytics
The ability to identify and analyze critical trends with workforce analytics enables HR departments to transform their strategies. Workforce analytics allow you to collect and analyze the data surrounding your workforce so you can unlock the hidden potential of your employees and move your organization forward. Download our latest whitepaper, The Need for Workforce Analytics,…
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Download our free whitepaper on Benefit Management for the Future
From financial concerns to work-life balance and health support, we explore the top employee concerns surrounding benefit management and how employers can help attract and retain talent by improving these offerings. Managing your benefits administration within your HCM system can prove invaluable and help you adapt to growing benefits and priorities that will help align…
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Vista Analytics allows you to feed different variations of the same data into its grid and graph display formats. You can even specify an additional configuration for its Excel output. Why not take the extra time to consider how each output type can best express your data, making it most impactful? As an example, let’s…
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Staying on top of the constantly changing marijuana laws in the United States can be a real challenge. As legalization in every state becomes more of a reality, employers need to be ready to address the challenges associated with it, including workplace safety, absenteeism, and productivity. And, when every state has different regulations, it makes…
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Since Canada legalized recreational marijuana in 2018 and subsequently legalized the production and sale of other cannabis products in 2019, employers across Canada have had to adapt and review their workplace policies. Medicinal cannabis has been legal for many years in Canada, and the number of registered users has continued to grow exponentially. In 2018,…
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2020 was filled with changes to the workplace and the way we work was challenged several ways. The job market changed drastically—with most jobs trying to go as remote as they could. With the abrupt transition to remote working, our latest whitepaper looks at the best ways to conduct remote interviews, how to onboard remote…
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In the last article, we reviewed how graphs are an ideal format to convey information at a glance. But if you’re going to render your analytics in graphical form, which graph type should you use? Does it matter? Are they interchangeable? Well, yes and no. They are interchangeable to a degree, but even so it…
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Each Vista Analytic can be designed to render as a graph and/or a grid, along with an optional export to Excel. So, with three different output types, which should you use and how should you use them? There are some situations where one output type clearly is needed—usually a grid over a graph (e.g., when…
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As with most things today, if you have a question or need, somebody somewhere has probably already addressed it. More specifically, when it comes to your organization’s analytics needs, someone has probably already answered whatever questions you have about which analytics to use or how to create them. So why start from scratch, reinventing the…
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