ERP Migration Continuity & Replay Engine
9/10
Demand Score
Migrations freeze revenue operations; offline work and re-entry cause errors, delays, and audit risk.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
14 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Expert
The Problem
A continuity layer that intercepts ERP-bound operations via proxy/SDK and journals them as events. Ships prebuilt offline-first modules (Invoicing, Picking, Time Entry, PO Approvals) so users keep wor
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- AWS DMS
- Striim
- Fivetran
- Airbyte
- Generic backup/DR + PagerDuty
Must-Have Features for MVP
Event-sourced journal with exactly-once semantics
Offline-first PWA for critical ERP tasks
Deterministic replay with conflict detection and merge UI
Selective read replica for key tables/views
Cutover runbooks and health gates
Printer/label/scale peripheral bridge
Audit trails linking offline actions to final ERP records
Rollback and quarantine queues for suspect events
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Accurate modeling of ERP transactions for replay
- Edge cases with inventory and financial postings
- Security review for man-in-the-middle proxy
- Latency sensitivity in shop-floor environments
- Sign-off from auditors on replayed financial events
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- No double-entry after cutover
- <15 minutes of effective downtime for critical flows
- Auditor-accepted replay logs for financial events
- >70% reduction in migration-related defects
- Successful dry runs validated by business owners
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