EdgeFuse: Zero‑Trust Compute‑to‑Data Integration Plane
9/10
Demand Score
Security and compliance blocks are preventing cloud rollouts and vendor integrations, causing project delays and contractual penalties.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$4k-30k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
14 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
EdgeFuse unifies cloud apps with on‑prem ERPs without moving raw data to the cloud. A SaaS control plane orchestrates lightweight on‑prem edge agents that execute all transformations locally via WASM
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Competitor Landscape
- MuleSoft Anypoint
- Dell Boomi
- Informatica Cloud
- SAP Cloud Platform Integration
- Azure Data Factory
- SnapLogic
- TIBCO Cloud
- Workato
Must-Have Features for MVP
Egress‑only mutual mTLS with short‑lived certs (SPIFFE/SPIRE)
On‑prem WASM transformation runner
Policy‑as‑code guardrails (OPA/Rego)
Offline queue with idempotent delivery and deterministic replay
Schema discovery with change impact simulation
Latency‑aware flow placement (edge vs cloud)
Audit-grade transaction lineage and redaction
Connectors for SAP/Oracle/MS Dynamics/DB2/SQL Server/REST/MQ/SFTP
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Security review of on‑prem agent
- Kernel/driver dependencies on legacy servers
- Coordinating change windows for ERPs
- Throughput limits over corporate egress proxies
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Zero inbound ports approved by security
- Go‑live in under 45 days for first use case
- >90% of transformations executed on‑prem with no raw data persisted in cloud
- MTTR for failed runs <15 minutes via replay
- Documented reduction in integration approval cycles by 50%+
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