Integration Governor: Schema‑Drift Firewall for ERP APIs/EDI
9/10
Demand Score
Small ERP schema/config changes routinely break revenue and fulfillment integrations, causing outages and manual rework.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
A drop‑in control plane that sits between ERP and existing iPaaS/point integrations to detect schema/version drift, enforce contracts, auto‑generate transformations, and safely roll back breaking chan
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- MuleSoft
- Boomi
- Workato
- Celigo
- Apigee
Must-Have Features for MVP
Inline schema diffing and contract enforcement for IDoc/BAPI/REST/EDI
Auto‑generated transformation patches with human approval
Golden dataset synthetic tests run pre‑deploy and continuously
Message replay, dead‑letter queues, and deterministic rollback
Partners/endpoint registry with version pinning and deprecation windows
Deep observability: per‑flow latency, error taxonomies, and business KPIs
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- High‑throughput, low‑latency proxying for IDoc/EDI
- Coverage for legacy protocols and custom BAPIs
- Partner resistance to version pinning
- Golden dataset curation
- Message privacy/compliance across borders
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- Reduction in integration‑caused incidents >60%
- Mean time to repair integration failures <30 minutes
- Zero unplanned breaking changes reaching production
- Partner upgrade throughput improved 2x via controlled deprecation
- Visibility adopted by both IT and business ops teams
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