Smart-Proxy for ERP: Vendor Pain Auto-Compensation + Patchless UI Fixes
8/10
Demand Score
Vendor defects and platform quirks cause costly slowdowns; teams cannot wait for official patches.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$6k-30k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
16 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Expert
The Problem
A secure reverse proxy and rules engine that sits in front of ERP web clients and APIs to neutralize vendor-specific pain points: session drops, posting locks, missing conditional logic, brittle forms
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- MuleSoft
- Boomi
- Workato (iPaaS)
- WalkMe (guidance only)
- Vendor-specific enhancement packs
Must-Have Features for MVP
Reverse proxy with ERP-specific adapters and safe retry semantics
Lock/contention detector with queued commits and back-off
UI patch rules: conditional fields, masks, inline help injected safely
Issue signature detector and auto-remediation recipes
Performance telemetry with per-route SLAs and heatmaps
Rollback switch per rule; change audit and approval
Weekly vendor knowledge pack updates
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Vendor T&Cs and support implications
- Complex SSO/SAML/OAuth flows through a proxy
- Ensuring idempotency and avoiding double-posting
- Rigorous QA to avoid altering business semantics
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- 30% reduction in ERP-related helpdesk tickets in 60 days
- Improved successful post rate under peak by 20%
- Near-zero recurrence of known issues after rule deployment
- No vendor core modifications required (audit-friendly)
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