ERP Data Triage — In‑Flight Data Quality, Quarantine, and Self‑Serve Fixes
9/10
Demand Score
Bad data halts order processing, causes chargebacks, and delays financial close—each incident is immediately costly and reputationally damaging.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-18k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
ERP Data Triage sits on your integration bus and ERP ingestion points to detect, quarantine, and correct bad data before it pollutes master and transactional tables. It applies business validations sp
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Talend Data Quality
- Informatica Data Quality
- Ataccama
- Precisely
- Monte Carlo Data Observability
- Great Expectations
Must-Have Features for MVP
Domain-specific validation packs (MM/SD/FI/CO) with regional tax rules
Quarantine layer for failed payloads with SLA-based routing
Repair UI with impact analysis and pre-post simulation
Duplicate detection and golden record creation for vendors/materials
Automated enrichment from reference data (DUNS, UNSPSC, tax rates)
Closed-loop source system feedback via APIs or data contracts
Data lineage and evidencing for audits
KPI tracking: fail rates, fix times, and cost of poor quality
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Tight coupling with diverse integration patterns (IDoc, API, file drop)
- Change control for auto-fixes in regulated environments
- Multi-entity master data governance differences
- Real-time performance constraints under high load
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Reduction in failed IDocs/transactions and rework hours
- Improved first-pass yield on master data creations
- Shorter incident MTTR for data issues
- Faster, cleaner month-end close
Ready to Build This?
This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.