PDS Vista Reviews & Product Details

PDS’ Vista is the complete HCM software solution for organizations with employees based in the United States, Canada, or the Caribbean. All the pieces—HR, payroll, benefits, recruiting, onboarding, time and attendance, self-service, analytics, workflow, mobile and extensive reporting—come together to simplify your business practices and processes. PDS serves a wide variety of organizations in many different industries, including professional services, finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, utilities, transportation, hospitality, non-profit, education, government, and others. Organizations are able to take advantage of the benefits of our cross-border, single database architecture that automatically presents employees with appropriate U.S. or Canadian page content, based upon their citizenship. Although a single, integrated HCM and payroll solution, Vista’s individual components can be deployed in phases according to your particular needs and priorities. The PDS solution, whether it’s deployed in the cloud or on-premises, can help your organization optimize your greatest assets—your employees, while you save time and money. Whether your users need access to HCM data from their desktop, their laptop, their tablet, or their smartphone—Vista delivers!

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Personnel Data Systems

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English

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Pat Palmer (President and CEO at Personnel Data Systems, Inc (PDS))

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PDS Vista Reviews (21)

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PDS Vista Reviews (21)

Review Summary

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Users consistently praise the flexibility and customization of the software, allowing it to adapt to various business needs. The user-friendly interface and strong customer support enhance the overall experience, making it easier for HR teams to manage payroll and reporting. However, some users note that certain modules are not fully developed, which can limit functionality.

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Verified User in Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/24/2021

"Easy access to data and customizable to work the way you want"

5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Updates and data integrity are maintained if you make changes through the front end or directly in the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

Some modules are not fully developed. Mostly the features you would expect to go to an outside product. You can do basic training scheduling and tracking but not a full learning management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"Amazing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Mostly configurable

well organized

Reporting structure is well defined Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

Limited search feature

Limited flexibility for applying to many jobs

Historical data reporting need modifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/24/2020

"Human resource, benefits and payroll provider"

4/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Great User interface, well designed and easy to use and train the employees

Provides great Talent Acquisition functionality ,one can assign stages of progress, maintaining referral information.

Great payroll Management capabilities, easy to implement and point and click features greatly simplifies the the issues our HR team was facing earlier as we maintained everything on excels.

Easy to maintain tax brackets and update payroll based on the gross packages, helped us to cutdown on crumb-some manual calculations for the same.

Highly customisable and also supports integration to external systems and applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

Getting hold of reports can be time consuming but lot of features are there for report generation.

Helps screen not always updated . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2019

"It had its Ups and Downs"

4/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

I like how thorough it is. There are many different components to it which was confusing at first to learn but overtime made sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

I dislike that half of the time we could not access it. We were also using it for a restaurant and it was very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PDS Vista:

If I t us for a restaurant make sure you can get it to operate quicker with less freezing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PDS Vista solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trying to solve the problem of it running slow for a restaurant. Have realized the benefit that it is very organized and stays up to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjay N.

Java Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/14/2020

"The best hr automation softwere on market"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

it is easy to understand and execute contains all required human resource option best part of its support and compatibility provided by the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

must contain a history of employees' pay data and the option to provide additional incentives according to situation and performance base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raissa M.

Sr. Director, Human Resources

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2020

"PDS Vista HR Software that Works"

5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Easy to use. Super flexible and customizable or just use the base system.PDS is constantly working on improvements and upgrades in order to meet customer needs. The PDS Team from Sales to Support are GREAT! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

We don't use the entire system which is our issue not an issue of PDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/15/2020

"It's a complete Human resource management software solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

It's a complete Human resource management software solution. All of the pieces - Human resource, recruiting, on-boarding, payroll, time and attendance, self-service, workflow, and extensive reporting –come together to simplify your business practices and processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

If I try to recall I find nothing which can say that I dislike this software :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roger P.

Head of HR

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/7/2019

"Vista for all HR activities and benefits"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Vista is a very user-friendly, easy to learn and flexible, that's why it has been quickly accepted for all the HR team. It allows us to completely manage all the HR, benefits and payroll we need. The reports are done just great and this process can quickly be saved in excel for sorting and analysis. Vista has an excellent customer support! I have solved all my issues by just consulting them. Also, Vista allows us to distribute the types sort and subtotal by type, and finally provide a grand total for the FEIN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

I would like Vista could add a print icon so it can ease this process. Also, Vista does not allow to see a history of all transactions per employee, which would be very helpful. At the end of the calendar year, you may get hit with multiple releases. I think for these specific cases; Vista should have some more extra features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PDS Vista:

Vista is well-suited for every company looking to have control full of the payroll process. I assure, this system will bring your department a new level of professionalism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PDS Vista solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Vista as a tool for HR activities and benefits. We have set Payroll so it can enhance reports to support account balances in our general ledger. There is about 20 managers with full access to see all employee information, but most of them have "Read Only" access, so sensible information can't be shared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joe G.

Human Resources Manager

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/19/2019

"Payroll is completely covered with Vista"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Vista is extremely intuitive. The navigation can be done with almost no technical knowledge about the platform. It’s as simple as reading the instructions it provides. It is not necessary to memorize screen names, labels or numbers to find information. It provides security, efficiency and flexibility to a wide variety of types of users. Also, Visa has the best support team I have worked with. They are always right there when something is not right, especially if you are running payroll (they take the payroll system very seriously and will try to solve it as soon as possible). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

The time entry features are not robust enough for our business, so we had to try a different application to handle this. Also, I think it doesn’t provide enough flexibility for applicants when applying for multiple jobs. The process tends to be long and confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PDS Vista:

I think Vista is well suited for most of the HR departments. A good recommendation would be to get enough training up front before implementation, so you can start getting the best out of the software right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PDS Vista solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vista is used across the whole organization, but mainly in the HR department. It provides a great number of details to our users for payroll and benefits, allowing us to search, select and use this data and integrate it with other data coming from other systems, in order to report and tie in employment and demographic information. After it was deployed, our admins had spent less time updating manually data. Our work in general has become more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dana s.

HR Team Member

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/24/2019

"Vista: our time and attendance system"

4/5

What do you like best about PDS Vista?

Vista comes with open architecture, something that provides great flexibility and opportunities for integration. This allows us to implement our technical development skills to create new modules we may need, as well as extend the base system code to handle our special circumstances and processes. Also, Vista allows for integration with other systems seamlessly, what makes Vista our system of record supporting several other 3rd party applications. A great thing about Vista is that it provides the ability to easily create and adjust access among security groups, this also aids greatly in troubleshooting and identifying issues because you can get down to the source code. When it comes to support, Vista is deeply interested in customer feedback, constantly listening to customers complains and suggestions, and actually implementing many of the changes in base system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PDS Vista?

Implementation of this product was made way after I started to work in my current company, so I am not sure of the training that our administrators received at that time. However, I personally haven’t find good training manuals. My knowledge has come through trial and error and calling Vista’s support. In general, I think Vista doesn’t represent such a great timekeeping solution. It’s not bad, but I don’t consider it's spectacular either. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PDS Vista:

Before acquiring Vista, make sure you really understand the undertaking of setting up this system. You will need all hands on deck, to include HR, Payroll, Accounting and IT departments along with the executives to make the financial decisions for implementation. Once it's done, you will get a nice HR and Payroll product, with enough features to give a decent performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PDS Vista solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the HR department, Vista definitely represents our time and attendance system. It is used as our HR and Payroll system of record. We store all employees in Vista and our benefits, time keeping, leave accruals and payroll are run through Vista too. The main advantage of it is that we keep all of our information in one platform, without needing to toggle between different platforms to check employee records or payroll. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.