BurstGrid for ERP: Elastic Offload of Heavy Runs and Reporting
9/10
Demand Score
Quarter-end surges and seasonal peaks cause job overruns that delay shipping/close; ERP scaling costs are prohibitive and slow to procure.
9/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$4k-25k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
14 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A managed burst-compute layer that offloads heavy ERP jobs (MRP/planning, allocations, revenue schedules, FX revaluations, mass updates, large reports) to serverless infrastructure and a cloud data wa
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Competitor Landscape
- Fivetran/Hevo (data movement)
- Snowflake/Databricks (compute)
- Oracle OCI native extensions
- SAP BTP
- Celigo (iPaaS)
Must-Have Features for MVP
Prebuilt connectors and CDC to maintain a near-real-time operational mirror
Job catalog for common heavy processes with tunable parameters
Serverless orchestration with autoscaling and budget guardrails
Result reconciliation and variance reporting back to ERP
Synthetic load testing to forecast capacity needs
SLA dashboards with per-job performance and cost KPIs
Fall-back to native ERP processing if variance exceeds thresholds
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Data freshness and reconciliation to source of truth
- Vendor terms restricting external processing of certain functions
- Algorithmic parity with ERP results for auditability
- Network egress and latency for large datasets
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Consistent completion of peak jobs within SLA
- Reduced ERP compute/licensing spend while maintaining accuracy
- Auditor-approved reconciliation for offloaded processes
- Business KPI gains (on-time shipments, days to close)
- Adoption of at least two heavy jobs per customer within 90 days
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