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PDS Releases New Update of Vista

New Design and Increased Functionality Empower Users to Further Simplify Business Processes and Better Serve their Workforce

Blue Bell, Pa., June 26, 2017 – PDS^®, a leading provider of human resource, benefits, recruiting, payroll, and time and attendance software throughout the U.S. and Canada, today announced the recent release of Vista 7. The newest enhancements include a modernized, responsive design, export improvements, improved document management, as well as enhanced workflow and navigation.

“The latest release is a direct result of feedback that we have received from our customers,” said Pat Palmer, Senior Vice President and Product Manager at PDS. “The latest update is packed with new features and functionality and a fresh look and feel with improved navigation to make the users’ experience more efficient. We listen to our customers and continue to enhance our solution to help them automate their HR, benefits, payroll, workforce management and recruiting processes.”

The award-winning, feature-rich Vista now offers the following enhancements, among others:

New Design: Fresh Vista interface uses Responsive Design to present more features at your fingertips than ever before

Vista Analytics: Fresh analytic dashboard presentation with over a hundred sample analytics provided

Vista EasyAsk: Our powerful English language query tool is now even simpler to use and report on employee data.

Export Improvements: Easily extract employee data from Vista with a single click.

Engagement Additions: More opportunities to engage your staff using our News function to share company, location, and team postings, event calendars, and a new survey functionality which provide the means to publish a survey and collect results.

Document Management: In this release we’ve introduced integration with Adobe® Sign e-signatures, which allows plain PDF files to be turned into sign-able agreements which can be signed electronically, verified, and audited; as well as Adobe® Form integration so that users can create, sign and manage electronic documents for employees.

Document Upload Improvements: We’ve introduced real-time parsing of uploaded documents, searching for viruses and other identifiable malware, and real-time stripping of macros in Office documents.

Reporting: Reporting menus can now include SQL Server Reporting Service® Reports or HTML content.

About PDS

A leader in the HCM software development business for over four decades, PDS® provides a full range of professional services to a wide variety of industries in the U.S. and Canada. PDS' Vista solution provides a feature-rich, completely integrated recruiting, human resource, benefits administration, payroll, time and attendance, and workforce management software application that enables organizations to focus more on strategic issues and less on administrative activities. In addition to core HCM functionality, Vista® offers flexibility with self-service capabilities, an English-language query tool, analytics, and workflow automation which can be deployed on-premise or in cloud. Founded in 1974, PDS is a privately-held company headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa. For more information on PDS or PDS' Vista solution and services visit www.pdssoftware.com.

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