Vista Analytics Best Practices: Introduction

April 27, 2021

Vista Analytics Best Practices: Introduction

Vista Analytics is a powerful tool that you can use to gain insightful knowledge, to answer questions, and alert you to situations that need attention. It also can simplify exporting and manipulating data for other uses, and even provide navigational shortcuts to other Vista screens. Vista Analytics truly empowers you to understand and do more…

March 26, 2021

Vista, the ACA, and Individual Coverage HRAs

If you are considering offering your employees an Individual Coverage HRA (ICHRA) to fulfill the Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer healthcare mandate, know that Vista manages this very easily, with minimal changes to your plan setup and day-to-day operations. If you’re not familiar with Individual Coverage HRAs (ICHRAs) you can refer to the IRS site…

February 26, 2021

Employee Photos in Vista: Summary & Series Review

Throughout this series, we’ve explored the current trends around using employee photos in your HCM. Although these images are primarily uploaded by self-service employees, they are leveraged throughout the system—from employee records to helping coworkers “put a face to the name” in the employee directory. Particularly in this time of increasingly remote work environments, making…

January 29, 2021

ACA the Vista Way

It’s not too late to smooth out your ACA filing process this year. Throughout the year, Vista delivers the reports and analytics that allow you to easily audit and address any data discrepancies before they become data issues. Vista delivers the administrative tools to facilitate preparation of your 1095-C data so that the printing and…

October 16, 2020

Employee Photos in Vista: Photo Processing Jobs

The Vista 7 series introduced a more self-service centric framework where employee images are ubiquitous across the application. Due to the variety of customers who had not leveraged photos in prior Vista versions, but had interest in doing so easily, we focused on delivering a number of tools to assist in managing bulk photos. When…

September 4, 2020

Employee Photos in Vista: Pending Upload & Photo Approval

Welcome back to our blog series on Employee Photos in Vista. In the last article, we discussed how employees and manager with full access to the Photographs security option can freely add photos to their own record or the records of their staff. If, instead, your organization prefers to have a level of oversight before…

August 25, 2020

Employee Photos in Vista: Self-Service Access

Welcome back to the Employee Photos in Vista blog series. In this article, we’ll explore the perspective of a self-service employee with full access to upload their own photos. As mentioned in our previous article, employees with full access to the self-service security option Photographs (ID: 31) can add any photo to their profile. That…

August 21, 2020

Employee Photos in Vista: Security & Configuration

As discussed in the previous article, you’ll need to decide on and document your photo policies and standards before rolling out employee photos in Vista. Now that you’ve developed and documented an approach to navigating these challenges in your organization, it’s time to implement your plan by configuring setup and security to accomplish your goals.…

August 10, 2020

Workflow Best Practices: Summary & Series Review

Over the past few months, we’ve explored eleven best practices to make your Vista Workflows more effective. Each was a simple task addressing a common issue that clients have encountered in their workflow implementations. These ranged from tips on constructing/designing the overall flow, to implementing specific flow steps, to settings and actions taken outside of…

July 10, 2020

Employee Photos in Vista: Navigating Employee Privacy

In the ever-evolving world of Human Resources regardless of the current trends and innovations one thing that is critical to keep in mind when strategizing on a new HR project is respecting employee privacy. With the introduction of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe, and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in…