ERP Sidecar Event Fabric
9/10
Demand Score
Native ERP integration surfaces are too limited or slow for new real-time use cases and compliance alerts.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$4k-20k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
14 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A deploy-near-ERP sidecar that synthesizes a rich, normalized event stream from multiple layers: DB-level CDC, BAPI/RFC wrappers, and UI instrumentation. It augments limited native ERP events to expos
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 1 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Debezium/Confluent CDC
- SAP Event Mesh
- Oracle Streams/GoldenGate
- iPaaS webhooks
Must-Have Features for MVP
Hybrid event synthesis from CDC + API + UI signals
Schema registry and versioning for domain events
Policy engine for PII masking and routing
Co-located serverless functions (WASM/containers)
Guaranteed delivery with DLQ and replay
Out-of-the-box event packs for Order-to-Cash/Procure-to-Pay
Adapters for Kafka, Event Hubs, Pub/Sub, and iPaaS
Backpressure control and adaptive batching
Audit-ready event lineage and reprocessing
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Securing DB log access for CDC in regulated environments
- Event duplication/debounce across layers
- SAP/Oracle upgrade compatibility
- Throughput and backpressure handling on-prem
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- 50%+ reduction in polling jobs and custom exits
- New real-time use cases delivered without ERP custom core changes
- Stable event contracts surviving ERP upgrades
- Ops-friendly management with clear SLOs and retries
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