SafeCustom: Upgrade-Safe ERP Extension Control Plane
9/10
Demand Score
Failed customizations cause outages and rollback chaos; catching and neutralizing them pre- and post-release avoids downtime and financial loss.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$5k-22k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A cross-ERP platform that continuously analyzes, tests, and controls customizations across SAP (ABAP/BTP), Oracle (EBS/Cloud/ADF), and NetSuite (SuiteScript). It builds a dependency graph of objects,
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Panaya
- Tricentis LiveCompare/Tosca
- Basis Technologies ActiveControl
- SmartBear
- Worksoft
Must-Have Features for MVP
Static analysis for ABAP/APEX/ADF/SuiteScript with anti-pattern detection
Contract tests and golden datasets; record-replay regression
Feature flags, canaries, and instant kill switch with audit
Impact analysis from vendor release notes to custom objects
Auto-fix suggestions and PR generation for common patterns
Drift detection between environments and compliance reporting
SLOs on custom features with error budgets and alerts
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Deep static/dynamic analysis across heterogeneous stacks
- Sandbox parity and data masking
- Change control processes and approvals
- Vendor NDAs and metadata access
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Zero-sev1 incidents from customizations post go-live
- 50% reduction in regression defects during patch cycles
- <15-minute mean time to neutralize a bad customization
- Seamless integration with existing CI/CD and transport tools
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