ERP Data Triage Mesh
10/10
Demand Score
Bad ERP data freezes order-to-cash and procure-to-pay; every hour of blockage costs cash and reputation.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$2k-10k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A real-time data quality and remediation layer that sits between upstream systems and your ERP. It enforces schema contracts, validates business semantics (e.g., closed periods, currency/FX rules, ven
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Great Expectations
- Monte Carlo Data
- Bigeye
- dbt tests
- SAP MDG
Must-Have Features for MVP
Contract enforcement at API/file boundaries
Semantic rule packs for finance and supply chain
Quarantine queues with auto-remediation playbooks
Slack/Teams approval workflows
Impact analysis (blast radius) and safe circuit breaker
Field-level lineage and audit trails
What-if simulation before releasing quarantined data
Prebuilt connectors: SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, Infor, Snowflake
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Deep ERP integration differences (SAP, NetSuite, Dynamics)
- High-volume streaming with strict latency
- Getting business rule definitions from stakeholders
- Data privacy and access controls
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- >80% reduction in data-related ERP incidents within 60 days
- MTTR for bad data cut from days to <30 minutes
- <1% of records require human review after first month
- Zero unplanned ERP halts due to data quality in a quarter
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.