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Why buyers trust Cedar Hills Group and SWS
SWS was created by Cedar Hills Group, Inc, a PeopleSoft consulting firm with more than 25 years of integration experience. Buyers choose SWS because it packages years of real client work into a repeatable product for exposing PeopleSoft data faster and with less risk.
- 25+ years of PeopleSoft integration work
- Real production patterns across universities, enterprises, and system integrators
- Built by the author of Integration Broker – The Missing Manual
- Standard Application Designer project
- Standard Integration Broker technology
- Zero delivered PeopleSoft objects modified
- No external runtime or SaaS dependency required
- Faster integration delivery
- Lower custom development cost
- Better use of scarce PeopleSoft talent
- A safer path to modern apps, analytics, and AI
About the author
SWS was created by Chris Malek, who has spent 25+ years working with PeopleSoft integrations. Chris is also the author of Integration Broker – The Missing Manual, the most comprehensive guide to PeopleSoft Integration Broker.
What buyers are really getting with SWS
- a product shaped by years of repetitive integration work
- a configuration-driven operating model instead of one-off custom services
- a platform that fits inside normal PeopleSoft architecture
- a vendor that understands both the technical details and the delivery economics
That combination matters. SWS is not a generic API tool with a PeopleSoft connector bolted on later. It is a PeopleSoft-first product built by people who have spent years solving the exact integration problems buyers are trying to reduce.
Why SWS was built
Innovation is often born out of frustration with the status quo. That was the case for Chris Malek, who had worked on numerous integration projects that required the same web services to be re-implemented over and over again. Each project had some similar features and others that were unique. Deploying these services became increasingly difficult for even minor changes, particularly when pulling data from PeopleSoft, with the same tables being used repeatedly.
After deploying bespoke web services that were not generic enough, it became clear that a new, more scalable solution was needed. That’s where SWS comes in.
SWS was created to address the challenges of repetitive and unsustainable web services. It takes advantage of Chris’s expertise with PeopleTools and web services, leveraging PeopleSoft metadata to create a single bolt-on web service that can handle up to 95 percent of use cases for extracting data from PeopleSoft.
Rather than re-implementing the same web services over and over again, SWS offers a one-stop-shop solution that can handle everything from small tables to large tables to nested data. The result is a single configuration-driven product that turns weeks of bespoke development into minutes of configuration.
Cedar Hills Group, Inc. has several clients and system integrators using SWS in various releases. This public release is the culmination of 25 years of PeopleSoft integration experience packaged into a best-of-breed solution.