BlackBox for ERP: Continuous Change Recorder + Safe Rollback
10/10
Demand Score
ERP outages or bad patches halt order-to-cash and payroll; execs need provable rollback and accountability now.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-20k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
16 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Key ERP System Problems (September 2025):
Competitor Landscape
- SAP Solution Manager/Cloud ALM
- Dynatrace
- New Relic
- Panaya
- Harness/Argo Rollouts
- ServiceNow Change Management
Must-Have Features for MVP
Low-overhead change journaling across configs/transports/extensions
One-click, audited rollback with dependency awareness
Canary patch harness with KPI guardrails and auto-revert
Production-traffic replayer to reproduce incidents in a sterile sandbox
RCA graph linking changes to performance and business KPIs
CAB-ready evidence packs and ITSM approvals (ServiceNow/Jira)
OpenTelemetry-based correlation and SLO dashboards
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Vendor API/transport limitations (e.g., SAP ChaRM constraints)
- Recording sensitive data and meeting data minimization rules
- On‑prem network segmentation
- Change management resistance to automated rollback
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- <2% runtime overhead measured on core transactions
- 50%+ MTTR reduction on change-related incidents
- Adopted in CAB workflows within 30 days
- At least one avoided major outage in first quarter
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