LiveOps Fabric: Real-Time Cross-BU Visibility and Action Layer
9/10
Demand Score
Executives lack a single, fresh view across fragmented BUs; decisions are delayed, causing missed revenue and excess working capital.
6/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-12k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Lack of real-time visibility across business units
Competitor Landscape
- Celonis (process mining)
- Palantir Foundry
- Databricks + Delta Live Tables
- Snowflake + Sigma/Power BI
- Materialize (streaming SQL)
- Confluent Cloud
Must-Have Features for MVP
Connectors with CDC/webhooks for major ERPs/CRMs/WMS
Semantic metric layer with versioned KPI definitions
Freshness/latency SLOs and data lineage
Ops War Room with anomaly detection
One-click remediation playbooks (write-back)
Per-BU RBAC and row-level security
What-if impact simulations on KPIs
Alerting to Slack/Teams/Email with context links
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Source systems without real-time hooks
- Data governance and security boundaries across BUs
- Metric definition alignment (single source of truth)
- Write-back permissions and change risk
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- <5-minute freshness for top 20 KPIs
- Cross-BU KPI standardization within 30 days
- Reduction of escalations/war rooms by >40%
- Closed-loop actions: >30% of alerts resolved via playbooks
- Executive adoption (daily active exec users >70%)
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