PDS Vista

Score1.3 out of 10

31 Reviews and Ratings

What is PDS Vista?

Vista® is a human resource, benefits, payroll, recruiting, and self-service software. Functional elements include recruitment, staffing, position and training management, compliance, and performance and compensation.

Categories & Use Cases

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Screenshot of employee data, which is the heart of a corporate knowledge base. Within Vista, an organized database of employees, applicants, jobs, and positions can be created and maintained. The product’s flexibility allows users to structure corporate data as simply or as complicated as business needs require.

Screenshot of Vista Payroll, which is designed to strike the perfect balance between power and simplicity. It is designed to process large volumes of data within tight time constraints, whether U.S., Canadian, or Caribbean.

Vista Payroll is focused on its main tasks of calculating pay, creating paychecks, producing payroll registers, and federal, state, local, and provincial tax reports.

Screenshot of the included Vista Benefits features, which can include unlimited plans and coverage levels, automated benefits eligibility, auto-housekeeping of valuations and premiums.

Screenshot of Vista Recruiting, which presents critical applicant information in an efficient manner for both human resources professionals and hiring managers, alike.

Vista Recruiting gives HR departments command over the entire hiring process for each department in every location while more easily tracking and controlling costs, improving applicant management, strengthening relationships with applicants, and reducing paperwork for the HR team.

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Screenshot of employee data, which is the heart of a corporate knowledge base. Within Vista, an organized database of employees, applicants, jobs, and positions can be created and maintained. The product’s flexibility allows users to structure corporate data as simply or as complicated as business needs require.

Reimbursement management
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Category average: 8.1
Tracking of all physical assets
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
Category average: 8
Performance tracking
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Category average: 7.8

Job Requisition Management
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
Category average: 7.8
Company Website Posting
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
Category average: 7.9
Applicant Tracking
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
Category average: 7.9

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PDS Vista for both our payroll and HRMS system. We use it for recruiting and onboarding, in addition to benefits and time keeping.

Pros

Customizations

Cons

Onboarding
Recruiting
File Management
Automations/Workflows
Technical Issues

Return on Investment

Loss of applicants
Loss of onboarding applicants
Missing documentation
Redundancy
Redundancy
Redundancy

Usability

Other Software Used

TalentLMS

Verified User

Administrator in Human Resources (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using it for are HRIS in our HR department. It is used for payroll as well. We have rolled out self-service to a few of our employees. It helps bring all functions of the HR/Payroll together in one system.

Pros

User Friendly application.
All information for employees is a click away.
Customer Service for Vista is very helpful.
Reports are very useful and easy to pull.

Cons

Manual check process is very long and drawn out.
Importing a large batch from an excel spreadsheet - without having to ask someone to write a function for that.
It would be great if the system gave you some kind of an alert if something was wrong, without having to wait until the employee came to you.
Payroll reports that could be more user-friendly.

Return on Investment

It makes for better customer services when mistakes are made. You can fix it yourself instead of haivng to wait until the next payroll
The reports have done wonders for our accounting team
the negative impact would not know what errors in the setup process you have until it is too late

Alternatives Considered

ADP Workforce Now

Lisa Lange, CPHR Candidate, PCP View profile

Human Resource & Payroll Manager in Human Resources at City of Steinbach (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

User-friendly and easy to learn.
Reporting options through Crystal Reporting.
The best support team when something is not right, especially if they are aware that you are currently running payroll.

Cons

If you manually input a transaction into the payroll entry screen once payroll is run you can no longer see that transaction. It would be nice to be able to see a history of all transactions per employee.
Future changes cannot be made on the HR side during the payroll processing time frame or the changes will occur during the current payroll. For example, if someone is getting a wage increase it cannot be future dated because payroll will pick it up even though it is future dated.

Return on Investment

We are more organized and efficient in the HR/Payroll department now [that they are] using the system

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

Seems intuitive, well organized
Mostly configurable--just a few customizations required
Reporting structure is well defined and ready for reporting

Cons

Vista Time system is a different product, but it's integrated. Sold as "one system"
Not yet fully accessible for Screen Reader users so we are working with PDS on a solution

Return on Investment

We haven't implemented the system yet
Hoping for improved efficiency with time and attendance and employee self-service
Hoping to onboard more efficiently
One integrated HR/Payroll system promises improved operational efficiency

Other Software Used

Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud), Campaign Monitor, Microsoft Dynamics SL

Cody Parker View profile

Systems Analyst in Information Technology at Lincoln Industries (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

Security - flexibility to a wide variety of types of users.
Expansion - When acquisitions happen it was quick to add a company.
User Exp - Users find it easy to navigate and find what they need.

Cons

Job History - Too many areas that dates populate.
ATS - There is a lack of flexibility for applicants when applying for multiple jobs.
Searching - The functionality is a little limited, would be nice to type in any information on a person and search.

Return on Investment

Automation of reporting has cut manual tracking down by 75% for benefits.

Other Software Used

ADP Vantage HCM, Paylocity Web Pay

UKG Pro

Workday Human Capital Management

ADP Vantage (legacy)

PDS Vista

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Reimbursement management

Tracking of all physical assets

Performance tracking

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Applicant Tracking

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