MetricFabric for ERP: No-Warehouse Reporting Layer
8/10
Demand Score
Leaders lack timely, trustworthy numbers; month-end closes drag and decisions stall.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$2k-8k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
A plug-in semantic layer that autogenerates governed financial and operational reports directly from ERP objects—no separate data warehouse. It inspects ERP metadata, maps to a canonical model, and sh
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Competitor Landscape
- Microsoft Power BI
- Tableau
- Jet Reports
- Insightsoftware
- Qlik
- Domo
- Solver
Must-Have Features for MVP
Auto-discovery of ERP schema and metric mapping
Prebuilt industry-specific report packs
Governed NLQ constrained to approved metrics
Row-level security with SSO (Azure AD/Okta)
CDC connectors for near-real-time refresh
Excel/Teams add-ins and scheduled bursts
Metric versioning and audit of definition changes
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- ERP API/ODBC rate limits
- Data governance and metric definitions alignment
- Row-level security and SSO integration
- Custom ERP fields and extensions mapping
Risk Level: Low
🎯 Keys to Success
- Time-to-first-dashboard under 24 hours
- Agreement on metric definitions via semantic catalog
- Performance (sub-3s query time on core KPIs)
- High trust via reconciliation checks vs ERP totals
- Ease of export to CFO’s existing tools (Excel/PowerPoint)
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This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.