ChangeFlight: ERP Change Impact Simulator
9/10
Demand Score
Failed ERP changes cause outages, compliance breaches, and revenue leakage; organizations need pre-flight risk scoring and guardrails before go-lives.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-15k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
Digital twin of your ERP built from metadata, customizations, and usage telemetry. Intercepts change requests from ITSM, simulates blast radius across modules, roles, and integrations; quantifies oper
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- ServiceNow Change Management
- SAP ChaRM
- WalkMe
- Whatfix
- Panaya
Must-Have Features for MVP
Metadata ingestion (tables, roles, workflows) and dependency graph
Synthetic impact simulation and risk scoring
Segmented rollout engine with canary cohorts
In-app guidance injection and training completion tracking
KPI guardrails with auto-pause/rollback
ITSM integration and approval workflows
Post-change analytics and lessons learned
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Building accurate dependency graphs for heavily customized ERPs
- Limited vendor APIs for extracting metadata and usage
- User privacy for telemetry
- Change freeze periods impacting data collection
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- 50% reduction in change-related incidents within 60 days
- Training completion >80% for impacted users pre-go-live
- <24 hours to model a new change after connection
- Executive-ready risk reports embedded in CAB
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.