PulseStream: Real‑Time ERP Event Fabric
9/10
Demand Score
Leaders make bad calls with stale data—expedites, stockouts, and missed collections balloon costs.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$2k-10k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Zero‑ETL operational streaming for ERPs. Change Data Capture (CDC) agents pull deltas from ERP APIs/DB logs and normalize into a canonical operations model (orders, WIP, inventory, shipments, AR). Pus
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
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Competitor Landscape
- Fivetran/Airbyte/Hevo
- Qlik Replicate (HVR)
- Debezium/Confluent
- MuleSoft/Workato/Boomi (iPaaS)
- Oracle GoldenGate
- Databricks/Snowflake (analytics)
Must-Have Features for MVP
CDC connectors for major ERPs and WMS/MES
Canonical operational data model and streaming transforms
Operational dashboards and embedded Decision APIs
Freshness SLOs, anomaly alerts, and lineage
Row‑level security and PII redaction
Plug‑ins for Kafka/Snowflake/BigQuery/ClickHouse
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Gaining CDC access for cloud and on‑prem ERPs
- API rate limits and backoff strategies
- Data governance and PII masking
- Maintaining sub‑minute latency under load
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- <60s end‑to‑end freshness on priority entities
- Adoption of Decision APIs by ops apps and planners
- 30–50% fewer expedite fees and fire‑drill meetings
- Improved forecast accuracy and on‑time delivery
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