Public Sector Leans on PDS
Specializing School Districs
Empowering Education Through Modern Workforce Solutions
For nearly 30 years, Peel District School Board has partnered with PDS to transform its Human Capital Management (HCM) ecosystem and strengthen its ability to serve educators, staff, and students. This long-standing collaboration ensures the district can focus on what matters most—delivering exceptional education—while PDS handles the complexity of HR, payroll, and workforce operations.
Why School Boards Choose PDS
- Education-Focused Expertise – Decades of experience working with K–12 districts means we understand your unique challenges.
- Fully Integrated Platform – One solution for HR, payroll, and workforce management—reducing silos and improving efficiency.
- Compliance & Accuracy – Stay ahead of evolving regulations with automated processes and built-in compliance safeguards.
- Scalable & Future-Ready – Adapt easily to changing needs with flexible technology designed for growth.
- Trusted Partnership – We don’t just provide software—we work alongside your team to ensure success.
Exclusive Benefit for Baragar Users
As a Baragar user, your district is eligible for special pricing considerations when partnering with PDS. This means you can modernize your HCM ecosystem at a preferred rate, making it easier than ever to streamline operations and invest in what matters most—student success.
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Univerus has strategically expanded through the integration of leading software providers across sectors such as local government, utilities, construction, education, manufacturing, recruitment, and sport & recreation. In May 2025, Univerus merged with PDS, provider of the Vista® HCM suite, and in July 2025 with Tangicloud, developer of the Fundamentals Finance solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. These alliances have accelerated our organizational capacity and significantly strengthened our ERP offering. By combining advanced Human Capital Management and Finance capabilities within the Univerus UNITY platform, we deliver a future-ready solution that scales with our clients’ evolving needs. Through UNITY, our ERP seamlessly integrates with our Utility Billing solution and others such as Asset Management, providing a comprehensive, fully integrated ERP and HCM solution that supports client growth and future needs.
With over 300 professionals across six countries and 25 solutions, our leadership team—averaging more than 15 years of industry experience—ensures projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with effective change management, including seamless data migration.
What PDS Provides Our School District Customers
Turnover Reporting
Highly customizable, real-time turnover reporting with integrated HR, payroll, and benefits data, enabling deeper insights through interactive dashboards, automated scheduling, and predictive analytics.
Multiple Position Tracking
Multiple Position Tracking allows employees to hold multiple roles with distinct pay rates, benefits, managers, and approval workflows—unlike many HR systems that rely on workarounds for secondary positions.
POS Integration
Vista stands out in POS integration by offering direct payroll sync, real-time time tracking, and customizable workforce management without needing third-party middleware.
Vista Time & Attendance
PDS Vista Time is an industry leader with its deep integration across HR, payroll, and benefits, offering automated scheduling, real-time capacity planning, and advanced absence management within a single platform.
System Integration Openness
PDS Vista is known for its System Integration Openness by offering flexible integration capabilities, robust APIs, and seamless data exchange with third-party applications.
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See Our Core Solution Suite in Action
See the HR, recruiting, benefits, and payroll functionality you’ve been looking for.
View the Many Ways You Can Automate Your Processes
Get ahead of the curve by implementing the best practices we’ve learned from years of successful implementations.
Learn How Our Homegrown Suite Meets Your Needs
Vista is a robust solution that is designed, developed, and supported by a single vendor. You’ll find out how that helps you be more strategic.
See How Our Many PDS Customers Have Gained Value From the Vista Toolset
Our customers span a variety of industries and markets. See how they utilize Vista to solve their business needs.
“The PDS Support team is always a pleasure to work with. They are very knowledgeable, patient and fun to work with!”
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See more about how we simplify HCM complexities across the entire employee life.
Vista Overview
Vista® is a top-rated, complete HCM software solution for organizations with employees based in the United States, Canada, or Caribbean.
Human Resources
Vista HR allows you to maintain an organized collection of employees, applicants, jobs, and positions. Vista delivers the tools to ensure that you stay in compliance.
Payroll
Vista Payroll provides the tools to streamline the payroll processing for your employee population. Self-service access to time entry, pay stubs, and year-end forms increases payroll efficiencies.
Benefits
Simplify your benefits and leave administration using Vista. Automate your employee eligibility and enrollment process and easily communicate results with your employees.
Recruiting
Manage the complete recruiting process, collaborate with hiring managers, promote job openings, attract applicants to apply, and qualify candidates using your criteria.
Onboarding
Improve your method of converting new hires into engaged, empowered, and productive employees. Collect new-hire data and form signatures quickly and efficiently!
Self-Service
Whether your workforce accesses Vista through a computer during the day or on a tablet or mobile phone — or even through your secured site from their home computer — you can use Vista to empower your staff.
Time and Attendance
Vista provides options to manage your workforce’s time effectively – Vista® Payroll offers time, project and absentee collection and our enhanced, cloud-based time-and-attendance tool, Vista Time® goes beyond when your workforce demands it!
Reporting
Access hundreds of pre-formatted reports to quickly get to your data and email the results in a format that you can use. Or utilize Vista EasyAsk to quickly ask a question and get results.
Analytics
With Vista Analytics, you’ll turn your data into actionable information allowing for better business decisions. Gather data from across your enterprise and present it in an engaging, graphical way via Vista dashboards.
Workflow
The Vista Workflow engine is integrated throughout Vista, so any action can be automated through an approval process. Our Workflow features were built for you because you need the ability to manage the approval processes for employee transactions, monitor transaction activity, and re-route activity when necessary.
Learn About Our Powerful, Easy-To-Harness Business Solution
PDS serves a variety of organizations in many different industries, including professional services, finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, utilities, transportation, hospitality, education, government, and others. Companies with U.S., Canadian and Caribbean employees are able to take advantage of the benefits of our intelligent, cross-border, single-database architecture. Although it’s a single integrated HCM solution, the individual components can be deployed in phases according to your particular needs.
What Our Customers Say About Our Employees
“PDS always goes above and beyond with their assistance. They consistently make my job easier and are very professional.”
– Dominic Lemmon, Democratic Caucus, PA House