ERP ShadowAPI + CDC Bridge
9/10
Demand Score
ERP projects are blocked by closed/fragile interfaces and vendor lock-in; teams need safe, rapid integration paths now.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Limited Built-In B2B Functionality (Without Apps)
Competitor Landscape
- MuleSoft Anypoint
- Boomi
- Workato
- Celigo
- SAP Cloud Integration
- Hasura
- TIBCO
- Informatica Cloud
Must-Have Features for MVP
Log-based CDC with guaranteed ordering and back-pressure
Auto-generated OpenAPI/GraphQL endpoints with schema registry
Normalized domain model and data contracts
Idempotent command bus for safe write-backs
Sandbox mode with synthetic data
Replay/rollback of events for recovery
Prebuilt connectors to major iPaaS/queues (Kafka/SQS/EventBridge)
End-to-end audit trails and PII masking
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- DB log access and permissions for CDC
- Vendor licensing/TOS around reverse-engineering
- On‑prem firewall/network constraints
- Change management and data governance sign‑off
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Time-to-first-integration under 2 weeks
- >80% reduction in integration breakages during ERP upgrades
- <5 min average data latency from ERP to downstream
- Rollback success rate >99% on failed writes
- NPS from integration teams >50
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.